Scientific Writing - 17-19 February 2026

Trainer: Christina Schuette
Date and Time: 17 + 18 + 19 February 2026, 9:00-14:00
Target group: PhD students
Venue: online
Content:
3x 0,5-day interactive event with trainer input and exercises to introduce academic writing in English.
- Course content: Good and bad scientific texts / Messages - formulating main statements clearly / Presenting results: Figures and legends / Writing exercises followed by feedback, working with own texts / Parts of a paper / Writing English texts / Writing strategies / Publication process.
- Preliminary work by the participants: Analysis of a paper

Please register by 15 January 2026
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Presentation Skills - 9+10 April 2026

Trainer: Alexander Britz
Date and Time: 9+10 April 2026 (9:00-17:00)
Target group: PhD students
Venue: IMB
Content:
During the workshop, the participants will gain essential skills to deliver impactful scientific presentations (for seminars, conferences, or a thesis defense). The emphasis will be on oral presentation skills.

The specific topics and learning objectives of the workshop are:
- Understand and apply fundamental laws of effective professional scientific communication, with a spotlight on oral presentation skills.
- Learn to create compelling narratives from scientific results using structured storytelling and pitching techniques.
- Acquire skills to use body language and voice effectively.
- Understand how to use technical aid and design appealing slides.
- Hands-on practice of short presentations in breakout sessions.
- Utilize structured feedback to refine your presentations.
Each participant will have to bring a 5-mins presentation or a poster for an active practice session.

Please register by 2 March 2026
To receive information on course fees for external* participants, please email training@imb-mainz.de

Biostatistics - Spring 2026

Trainer: Fridolin Kielisch in cooperation with IMB core facilities
Date & Time: 14 April - 19 May 2026, 9:15 - 10:45 (6 weekly units of 90 minutes each, always Tue)
Venue: hybrid (IMB + online)
Target group: 1st year PhD student + young researchers aiming at repetition
Content:
This module focuses on statistics as an important instrument of scientific work. Students will take a 'probabilistc point of view' on scientific experiments and familiarize themselfes with statistical tools like confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, ANOVA, etc. The course mainly uses the statistical computing framework R, but due to the general nature of the topics any statistical software can be used you are familiar with. 
The module consists of seven units. Between the sessions, the students will do small exercises at home. Tutors will be available for questions and answers.
Requirements: 
Participants must be familiar with a software allowing statistical analysis prior to the course. For beginners, we recommend and support a self-learning course in R.
https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html#rintro 

Please register by 16 March 2026
This course is currently not open to external* participants. For more information, please email training@imb-mainz.de