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Microscopy and spectroscopy in food and plant sciences
27-29 January 2025The MicroSpectroscopy Research Facility and the Wageningen Light Microscopy Centre of Wageningen University organize a VLAG & EPS funded advanced practical course for postdocs and PhD candidates. The course will cover the theory and practice of several advanced microscopic and micro-spectroscopic techniques that have a wide range of applications in both the Food and Plant Sciences. We give an overview of sample preparation and imaging techniques available.
Ecotoxicology part I
27 - 31 January 2025This course offers basic ecotoxicological training for PhD students and scientists from universities and research institutes who in the future will be involved in ecotoxicological research. The course is also suitable for industrial and governmental researchers, managers and policymakers. The basic knowledge offered in this course is essential for all those who are or wish to become involved in the field of hazards posed by environmental contaminants.
Making Impact: Increasing the relevance of research through science-society interaction (in person)
3 & 4 February, 2025This course is focused on making a plan of action. You will discover how fundamental research can be combined with societal impact in various ways without a single-best option. You will have the opportunity to reflect on the impact of your own work, learn from other PhD candidates and other researchers working at the interface of research, policy and society.
Open Hardware in the lab: DIY using 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC
3, 7 and 14 February 2025Research often requires custom setups and tools for proper functioning, and existing products are not always suited or optimized for the individual research project. Luckily, the rise of computer-aided manufacturing techniques has made it easier than ever to quickly design objects specifically designed for your intended use. 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC milling are manufacturing techniques that make it possible to go from an idea to a physical object within a day. This course will teach participants how to use 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC milling for use in their research.
Constraint-based modeling: Introduction and Advanced topics
10 - 14 February 2025This course will introduce computational modeling of large (genome-scale) metabolic reaction networks through a scalable framework known as constraint-based modeling. Emphasis will be on the usage in both biotechnology and systems biomedicine. Main topics will be fundamental constraint-based modeling methods, omics data integration, multi-scale modeling and microbial community modeling.
Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
31 March - 4 April 2025This virtual course will show how public bioimaging data resources, centred around the BioImage Archive, enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis. The content will explore a variety of data types including electron and light microscopy and miscellaneous or multi-modal imaging data at the cell and tissue scale. Participants will cover contemporary biological image analysis with an emphasis on machine learning methods, as well as how to access and use images from databases.
Microbial metagenomics: a 360º approach
7 - 14 April 2025This course will provide a global overview of the different metagenomic approaches to study microbial communities, covering methods for the functional search of genes, sequencing of metagenomes using the most recent technologies and in silico methods for sequence analysis.
Analysis and integration of transcriptome and proteome data
4 - 9 May 2025This course is targeted at biologists and biochemists who are (starting to be) involved in both next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry-based proteomics, but who are not experts in these fields.
Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques
18 - 23 May 2025This practical course will cover advanced light microscopy techniques and participants will learn how to derive qualitative and quantitative insights on molecular mechanisms in mechanisms in cells, tissues and developing organisms
Introduction to metabolomics analysis
20 - 23 May 2025This course will provide an introduction to metabolomics through lectures and hands-on sessions, using publicly available data, software, and tools. Participants will become familiar with standardised workflows as well as with the current state of experimental design, data acquisition (LC-MS, MS imaging), processing, and modelling. In addition, they will learn about community standards and sharing in metabolomics, particularly through the use of EMBL-EBI’s MetaboLights repository and Galaxy infrastructure.
Whole transcriptome data analysis
1 - 6 Jun 2025This course will teach biological researchers how to analyse biological data sets using open-source software. Most of the analysis will be performed with docker4seq and rCASC packages, which were developed to facilitate the use of computing demanding applications in the field of NGS data analysis. Docker4seq and rCASC packages use docker containers that embed demanding computing tasks (e.g. short reads mapping) into isolated containers.
Imaging-based spatial-omics
15 - 20 June 2025The aim of the course is to provide participants a comprehensive introduction to the various methods of spatial-omics and in particular those of multiplex immunofluorescence and spatial transcriptomics. We want to provide a general overview of the methods and assist researchers choose the right method for their needs.
Data visualisation for biology
24 - 26 June 2025This course will give insights into, and practical experience in, data visualisation for exploring complex and multi-dimensional biological data.
Postgraduate courses organised by other Graduate Schools
Below, you can find the links to the course information pages of some of the graduate schools that PE&RC frequently co-organises courses with. Please go ahead and browse through their websites as well, to see whether there are any interesting courses organised by these graduate schools.
- The Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS)
- The Research School Ecology and Evolution (RSEE)
- Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)
- VLAG Graduate School
- The Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS)
- The Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS)
- Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK)
- Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology research school (BioSB)
- Phenorob Graduate Training:
Links to other places where postgraduate courses are organised
We sometimes also receive suggestions from our members about places where they have found and/or attended interesting and high quality postgraduate courses. We list these suggestions here, just for people to browse through.
Online courses
Particularly for statistical or methodological courses, we see an added value in taking one or more online courses. We are currently not actively organising such courses ourselves, but you are generally referred to places like www.coursera.org for browsing through a very broad range of online courses. If you have doubts about the quality, applicability, or value of a certain online course for your development, we strongly urge you to check this with your supervisory team, but you are also most welcome to consult us for checking this.