NordForsk: Nordic EMBL Partnership Hub

The Nordic EMBL Partnership was awarded funding from NordForsk as part of its Partnership Hub Infrastructure call. The funding is designed to help increase knowledge transfer and interactions across the Nordic EMBL Partnership. A large part of the funding will go towards training our researchers and assisting with encouraging mobility, in the form of lab visits and knowledge sharing, across the nodes. 

The Nordic EMBL Partnership nodes have planned a number of courses to help meet these knowledge transfer and mobility needs. An overview of the courses offered through the hub agreement are detailed below. The Partnership nodes have also worked to open up courses offered by their host universities to other researchers within the Nordic EMBL Partnership.

Node

Upcoming Nordic EMBL Partnership NordForsk Hub Courses 2024

Year 

DANDRITE

Principles of Neural Organization

This course is interested in the following question: How can the brain be far smarter than a supercomputer yet consumes 100,000-fold less space and energy? Both brain and computer obey mathematical and physical laws and both deal with receiving, sending, processing, storing, and retrieving information.

Time and place: 8-12 April 2024, Aarhus, DK

Registration and program

2024

MIMS

Course in Metabolomics

Programme: TBA

Time and place: TBA

Registration and program: TBA

2024

NCMM 

Molecular Medicine

This course provides an overview of molecular medicine topics relevant to 1) disease mechanisms and development, 2) translational medicine and 3) the future of diagnostics and targeted therapies integrated to stratified and personalized medicine.

Time and place: 2024 in NCMM, Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO 

2024

NCMM 

Multi-omics Data Analyses and Integration for Precision Medicine

A theoretical and practical approach to bioinformatics.

Time and place: 2024 at NCMM, Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO

2024

Node

Completed Nordic EMBL Partnership NordForsk Hub Courses 2021-2023

Year 

DANDRITE

Summer School in Translational Psychobiology

This course aims to prepare bachelor’s level students to pursue careers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, and especially boost their interest in applying findings from animal models to the understanding and research of human psychology. Target group, BA Students.

Time and place: 5-27 July 2021in Aarhus, DK - this course has now ended

Registration and program

2021

MIMS 


 

Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)

Online introduction for EM instruments and methods. Intended for PhD students and postdocs. All welcome.

Time and place: 22-23 March 2021 online -  this course has now ended

Registration and program 

2021

NCMM

Molecular Medicine

This course provides an overview of molecular medicine topics relevant to 1) disease mechanisms and development, 2) translational medicine and 3) the future of diagnostics and targeted therapies integrated to stratified and personalized medicine.

Time and place: 8-19 November 2021 in NCMM, Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO and online  -  this course has now ended

Registration and program

2021

NCMM

7th NorMIC Methods in Optical Microscopy

The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.

Time and place: 16-19 November 2021, Online - this course has now ended

Registration and program

2021

FIMM 

Building Bridges Symposium 2021: Technologies Advancing Molecular Medicine - Focus on Nordic Infrastructures 

Building Bridges Symposium arranged to bridge clinical and basic/translational research and give examples of how research groups are working together towards a better understanding of the pathophysiology of disease and improved options for patient treatment. Topic: From research Infrastructure to Clinical Translation', with featured research that has relied heavily on infrastructure support. Inc. a set of focused topical discussions, tailored specifically to the Nordic EMBL Partnership staff, focusing on some of the key topics of interest, such as clinical-grade sequencing. Possible for interactive journal clubs.

Time and place: 1 December 2021, Helsinki, FI and online  -  this course has now ended

2021

NCMM

8th NorMIC Workshop on Biological Optical Microscopy

The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.

Time and place: 2-6 May 2022,  IBV UiO and Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway  -  this course has now ended

Registration and program

2022

DANDRITE

The principles of neural organization

Methods and rationales of experimental approaches to systems neuroscience, molecular cell biology and cellular networks of the brain.

Time and place: 24-29 May 2022, Aarhus, DK  -  this course has now ended

Registration and program

2022

NCMM 

Molecular Medicine

This course provides an overview of molecular medicine topics relevant to 1) disease mechanisms and development, 2) translational medicine and 3) the future of diagnostics and targeted therapies integrated to stratified and personalized medicine.

Time and place: 7-18 November 2022 in NCMM, Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO 

Registration and program

2022

NCMM 

Multi-omics Data Analyses and Integration for Precision Medicine

A theoretical and practical approach to bioinformatics.

Time and place: 5-9 December 2022 at NCMM, Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO

Registration and program

2022

MIMS

Advanced Methods in Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy

Provides insights on the advanced correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) techniques. Participants will learn the latest workflows on how to correlate fluorescence microscopy images with high resolution Electron Microscopy (EM) images obtained from state-of-the-art equipment.

Time and place: 5-8 December 2022 at MIMS, Umeå University, Umeå, SE

Registration and program

2022

NCMM

10th NorMIC Methods in Optical Microscopy

The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.

Time and place: 9-12 May 2023, Institute of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

Registration and program

2023

DANDRITE

1st cryoNET course on advanced single particle cryo-EM analysis (CryoNet)

Learn about advanced single particle cryo-EM analysis.

Time and place: 5-9 June 2023, Aarhus University, Denmark

Registration and program

2023

DANDRITE

Principles of Neural Organization

This course is interested in the following question: How can the brain be far smarter than a supercomputer yet consumes 100,000-fold less space and energy? Both brain and computer obey mathematical and physical laws and both deal with receiving, sending, processing, storing, and retrieving information.

Time and place: 5-13 June 2023, Aarhus University

Registration and program

2023

DANDRITE

Ensembl Genome Browser workshop

The 'Introduction to the Ensembl Genome Browser' workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining lots of hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser, but also provides them with the necessary background information. The workshop will be facilitated by Ensembl Outreach Officer Louisse Paola Mirabueno from EMBL-EBI.

Time and place: 27 September 2023, 1870-816 (Faculty Club at MBG), DANDRITE, Aarhus University campus, DK

Registration and program: https://dandrite.au.dk/fileadmin/dandrite/Administration/Ensembl_genome_browser_WS_programme_and_description_27_september_2023.pdf
Registration closes on 12 September 2023.

2023

MIMS

Basic Course in Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM) for Life Sciences

This course covers lectures and practical demonstrations in SEM and TEM techniques, specifically for life science applications. The contents include principles of electron microscopy, specimen preparation, cryo-electron microscopy and correlative light-electron microscopy.

Time and place: 26-28 September 2023, Umeå University, Umeå, SE

Registration and program: https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/medicinska-fakulteten/u/umea-centre-for-electron-microscopy-ucem/courses-workshops-and-training/basic-course-sept-2023/
Registration closes on 4 September 2023.

2023

MIMS

Cryo-EM sample preparation and data collection course

The purpose of the course is to prepare and train Cryo-EM facility users in sample preparation methods, introduce users to the image data acquisition workflow, expand knowledge about cryo-EM methods among researchers and show that everyone can learn how to use cryo-EM for structure and cell biology.

Time and place: 17-19 October 2023, Umeå University, Umeå, SE

Registration and program: https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/medicinska-fakulteten/u/umea-centre-for-electron-microscopy-ucem/courses-workshops-and-training/cryoem-course-2023/

Registration closes on 29 September 2023.

2023

FIMM

CytoData

CytoData symposium and hackathon brings together researchers interested in image-based profiling of biological phenotypes. The symposium including workshops, presentations and a poster session is scheduled for the first two days of the event (Oct 23-24) followed by a hackathon for developers during the last two days of the event (Oct 25-26). The themes of the symposium are Single-cell profiling and Spatial profiling.

Time and place: 23-26 October 2023, Helsinki, FI

Registration and program: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/cytodata-2023

Registration closes on 1 October 2023.

2023

NCMM

Molecular Medicine

The aim of this course is to provide a good overview of selected topics in molecular medicine that are relevant to understanding disease mechanisms and development, aspects of translational medicine and the future of diagnostics and targeted therapies integrated to stratified, tailored and personalized medicine.

Time and place: 30 October - 10 November 2023 at Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO

Registration and program: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/med/MF9120BTS/

Registration closes on 1 October 2023.

2023

NCMM

11th NorMIC Methods in Optical Microscopy

The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.

Time and place: 14-17 November 2023, Department of Biosciences, Uiversity of Oslo, Oslo, NO

Registration and program: https://www.med.uio.no/ncmm/english/news-and-events/events/courses-and-workshops/2023/11th-normic-imaging-workshop.html 

2023

NCMM

Multi-omics Data Analyses and Integration for Precision Medicine

The aim of this course is to teach students new approaches of multi-omic data analysis to study gene expression regulation in healthy and disease tissues. The course will present different computational methods to analyze multi-omic datasets in healthy and disease settings. A specific focus will be given to the analysis and integration of datasets dedicated to the study of transcriptional gene regulation, systems biology, and cancer.

Time and place: 4-8 December 2023 at Forskningsparken, Oslo, NO

Registration and program: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/med/MF9255/index.html

Registration closes on 1 October 2023.

2023

All nodes

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Approaches in Molecular Medicine

Computational approaches for the detection of correlations, pattern recognition, and predictions using artificial intelligence/machine learning tools. 

Time and place: 24-25 January, Biocenter, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK

Registration and program: https://eventsignup.ku.dk/danemosymposium2024/conference 

2024