Early Stage

The main focus of this workshop will be on using the Python scikit-image package for image processing.

scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing. It is available free of charge and free of restriction.

You should be familiar with Python and ideally have already participated in a Software Carpentry workshop.

In many research groups projects by Bachelor’s and Master’s students are supervised on a daily or weekly basis by PhD students. Often side projects of the own PhD topic form essential parts of the BSc/MSc work and it is expected by the group leaders to supervise in an adequate manner.

This seminar wants to:

• Provide the legal background for supervision by PhD students
• Show methods and communication tools to productively address the above problems
• Give advice how to solve problems in these tasks
• Make clear what kind and extent of supervision can/should be expected by the BSc or MSc student
• And show how and in which way a PhD student can benefit from supervision

Methods
The exchange of experience and problem-solving approaches will constitute the seminar, as well as role plays on how to react in difficult situations. Furthermore, input will be given on the legal situation and both national and international common practice of this task in the natural sciences. 

Prof. Decker would like to invite the participants to send him - prior to the seminar - information on their respective questions, so that the content of the seminar can be adapted accordingly.

This workshop gives you an overview about the requirements and rules for publishing scientific articles. The following points will be covered in this 2-days workshop:

• Introduction: why publish and when to start 
• Choosing a journal, using JANE and other applications, practical exercise
• Using ThinkCheckSubmit
• Your audience, those impact factors, open access
• Practical exercise on Scopus and WoS
• Ethics of Publication; Vancouver rules, coauthors, correspondents, chaperones
• Submitting your MS, covering letters.  Rejection – don’t panic!
• Different kinds of rejection: editorial, outright, with serious flaws
• Conditional acceptance, dealing with those referees
• Writing responses to referees, practical exercise
• Accepted!!  The final text. Proofs: what to do and what not to do, practical
• Copyright. ‘First online’, preprints & preprint servers
• Publicizing the publication; your colleagues, your boss, your institution, the world

Trainer
Andrew Davis, PhD works at the Institute of Zoology, University of Göttingen. With a PhD in Zoology from University College Cardiff, Wales, UK, he now specializes in biology, ecology and environment. He has extensive experience in teaching post-graduate students in scientific writing & publishing, manuscript preparation, experimental design & statistics. 

Note: Registration of GSLS doctoral researchers has priority to non-GSLS participants. Non-GSLS participants pay a service and workshop fee of EUR 50 by bank transfer. 

This workshop gives you an overview about the requirements and rules for writing scientific articles. The following points will be covered in this 2-days workshop:

• Introduction: why publish, publishing in English, starting early
• Planning and execution, structure, overall style of language, proforma practical
• The need for structure, simplification and clarity
• Structure: of sentences, between sentences, whole text, sections, subsections, modules
• Simplification: of modifiers, suspensions, active voice and active verbs
• Short sentences and practical exercises on editing sentences
• The Discussion; purpose, content, tense, structure, modular construction
• The Methods; purpose, content, tense, structure
• The Results; purpose, content, tense, structure
• The Introduction; purpose, content, tense, structure
• The Title, Abstract, Key Words, Literature list, Acknowledgements etc.
• Title and Abstract practical exercises

Trainer
Andrew Davis, PhD works at the Institute of Zoology, University of Göttingen. With a PhD in Zoology from the University College Cardiff, Wales, UK, he specializes in biology, ecology and environment. He has extensive experience in teaching post-graduate students in scientific writing & publishing, manu-script preparation, experimental design & statistics.

Note: Registration of GSLS doctoral researchers has priority to non-GSLS participants. Non-GSLS participants pay a service and workshop fee of EUR 50 by bank transfer.

Over the previous years, this series has evolved into a highly popular lecture format for GSLS doctoral researchers of all sections. The overall goal of the lecture series is to introduce you to various important disease conditions. They focus on the patho-physiological mechanisms underlying the disease phenotypes and possible therapeutic intervention strategies.

This year, Clinical Medicine will cover a wide variety of topics.