Scientific conferences & courses

~ Courses relevant for PhD students ~

If you are looking for a scientific course for your PhD studies, then check out the many courses EMBL and EMBO offer.

Please contact your local PhD school for information on the ECTS point equivalent of a given course.

~ EMBO events and training ~

EMBO Courses & Workshops stimulate exchanges of the latest scientific knowledge and offers training in new techniques. The programme funds workshops, practical courses and lectures courses.

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~ EMBO Lab Leadership courses ~

Leadership, communication, scientific writing, research integrity and other professional and 'soft skills' are critical for a successful career in science. These courses have been designed to meet the specific needs of researchers.

See details and course dates of upcoming lab leadership courses, such as:

Laboratory Leadership for Group Leaders
Laboratory Leadership for Postdocs
Self-Leadership for Scientists
Negotiation for Scientists
Project Management for Scientists
Communicating Research: Paper Writing & Short Presentations
Scientific Integrity: How to Publish Reproducible Results
How to Review a Scientific Paper
Applying Design Principles to Schematic Figures

~ EMBL Career Webinars ~

EMBL Career Webinars Series 2023

EMBL Careers Webinars feature career possibilities – both academic and non-academic.
The webinars are free of charge and aimed at PhDs and postdocs from EMBL and from other institutions, but open to anyone interested.

Preliminary calendar for the 2023 EMBL careers webinar series:

Life science strategy consulting | 17 February | Registration opens in January
- David Puga, Strategy Consultant, Catenion, Germany
- Miriam Fontanillo, Senior Engagement Manager, major global management consultancy, Switzerland
- Noorie Karimbocus, Senior Manager, EY, Mauritius

How to choose the right postdoc lab | 18 April
- Ana Boskovic, Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy
- Allison McClure, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
- Duncan Odom, Group Leader, University of Heidelberg and DKFZ/German Cancer Research Center, Germany'

Product management | 30 June
- Julia Roberti, Product Manager, Advanced Confocal Imaging, Leica, Germany
- Nicola Dynes, Manager – Platform Product Management, Sophia Genetics, Switzerland

Making the transition to a group leader role | TBC
- Sarela García Santamarina, Group Leader, Human Microbiota – Xenobiotics Interaction, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Portugal
- Velia Siciliano, Principal Investigator, Synthetic and System Biology for Biomedicine, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
- Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, Group Leader, Quantitative Stem Cell Dynamics, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Spain

~ EMBL courses and conferences ~

The EMBL Events website is a major European platform for sharing and expanding research, knowledge and contacts through face-to-face and virtual interaction. Learn also more about training at EMBL here

Download the poster with 2023 events (with interactive links)

See full list of EMBL events (with upcoming registration & abstract submission deadlines)

~ EMBL-EBI on demand training - free online courses ~

EMBL-EBI provides free online courses and recorded webinars that are available anytime, as well as live webinars, on Europe's most widely used data resources, created by experts at EMBL-EBI and collaborating institutes.

Discover the online tutorials and webinar library, designed and delivered by EMBL-EBI experts and the wider training faculty. Openly accessible and available whenever you need them - enabling you to learn flexibly at your own pace, wherever you may be.

RECORDED WEBINARS

A guide to UniProt for students
A guide to exploring genes and genomes with Ensembl
Accessing InterPro programmatically
An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources
An introduction to WormBase ParaSite resources
Analysing linkage disequilibrium with Ensembl
Annotate your proteins with the UniProt Functional Annotation system UniFire
Annotating your own variation data with the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)

ONLINE TUTORIALS

A journey through bioinformatics: Explore resources from EMBL-EBI
ArrayExpress: Quick tour

~ EMBL e-learning courses ~

The EMBL wet-lab e-learning courses feature research carried out and technologies used at EMBL, and are created by our experts for you to access anytime.

Non-Antibiotic Drugs affect our Gut Bacteria
An Introduction to Optogenetics
An Introduction to On-section CLEM
Simulating the Cytoskeleton using Cytosim

~ Keynote presentations and tips & tricks ~

Check out our playlist of keynote talks from some of EMBL's past conferences and symposia.

In this video series, we present useful tips and tricks for scientists to present their research and advance their career.

How to give a good scientific talk
How to become a better scientific prsenter
How to make a scientific poster that people want to stop at
How to visualise biological data
How to apply for a position in the lab
How to prepare for an interview
How to become a group leader / principal investigator
Networking and career planning for scientists
And many more video tutorials

EMBL & EMBO scientific events in 2023

The EMBL Events website is a major European platform for sharing and expanding research, knowledge and contacts through face-to-face and virtual interaction. Learn also more about training at EMBL here

Download the poster with 2023 events (with interactive links)

See full list of EMBL events (with upcoming registration & abstract submission deadlines)

EMBO Courses & Workshops stimulate exchanges of the latest scientific knowledge and offers training in new techniques. The programme funds workshops, practical courses and lectures courses.

See full list of EMBO events (with upcoming registration deadlines)

EMBO Lab Leadership courses

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Revised 19.01.2023

Karen Bech-Pedersen