Dear reader,

welcome to the April issue of the monthly GAUSS newsletter with information from the GAUSS Office including courses and events organised by GAUSS. Furthermore, the newsletter contains information about workshops and events offered by partners at the Göttingen Campus and additional information that might be of interest for doctoral students in Göttingen. For more information about each topic, please follow the links below.

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All the best,
Jonas

GAUSS Office

Call for course registrations – July

The registration for methods and skills courses held in July 2019 will be open from 1 May. You can register for courses taking place in July from 1-20 May; the slots will be allocated on 25 May. Please check carefully for scheduling conflicts. All communication regarding …

Workshops and Events

Courses offered by the Göttingen State and University Library

We are pleased to inform you that this semester the Göttingen State and University Library offers the courses “Basics for Beginners: Introduction to Research”, “Introduction to Zotero”, and “Introduction to Citavi” as well as library tours in English. For further information and registration please visit their website at www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/-M9Q8z or have a look an the attached posters. Should you be interested in a …

Workshop: "Science Management - my career path?" 17 June 2018

If you are interested in Science Management but are not sure if this career path is something for you, participate in this half-day workshop on 17 June 2019 9-13h. This workshop will be held in German by Dr Anna Beck and Dr Sabine Heerwart. For further information please see below and check out this link. Target Group: late-stage PhD students …

Lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics”

The GGNB PhD Program “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems” offers the lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics” open to all interested PhD students in GAUSS! You are welcome to join whenever a topic is of interest.

Fridays from 10:15-11:45 am

Lecture: Inclusion during a Doctorate? Chances, Risks, and Side Effects when Doing a Doctorate with a Disability (16 May 2019)

The Graduate School of Humanities (GSGG) and the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG) have established a new project to campus wide further the inclusion of female PhD students with disabilities, chronic diseases, or care responsibilities. The project aims to initiate networking, to identify further potentials for inclusion and to learn how the inclusion at Göttingen University can be improved. In addition, expert talks on …

Interested in Entrepreneurship? Check out the Start-up Support Program!

The Start-up-Support unit based at the university department “Cooperation and Innovation” is offering a versatile program over the summer to all on Göttingen Campus who are interested and curious about a potential entrepreneur career. Check out the different events below and for further information go to their webpage.

“Young Entrepreneurs in Science”-workshop (June & July 2019)

You are a postdocs or PhD student and want to take your career into your own hands, but you don’t have a business idea yet and lack inspiration? You would like to know how to turn your idea into reality and develop entrepreneurial skills? Then this 4-day workshop inclucing a company visit to B.Braun is for you! Develop your own …

ENABLE Symposium 2019 for Biomedical Science (13-15 November 2019)

The Scientific and Local Organizing Committees of ENABLE 2019 invites you to the third ENABLE conference entitled “Next-generation life scientists: Side by side to break new ground”, which will take place in Nijmegen on 13-15 November 2019. The ENABLE (European Academy for Biomedical Science) conferences are organized by and for PhD students and Postdocs and seek to promote excellence in biomedical sciences in …

Eurolife Summer School: Immune modulation in human and animal infections (July 2019)

Since January 2018 the UMG coordinates the Eurolife Network and is currently inviting applications for the Eurolife Summer School 2019 in Leiden: Immune modulation in human and animal infections: impact on health, disease and therapy. Eurolife will fund 9 grants to students from Eurolife institutions (Please note that the grants cover the registration to the event only. You are expected …

Eurolife Summer School: Biology of Brain Disorders (June 2019)

Since January 2018 the UMG coordinates the Eurolife Network and is currently inviting applications for the next Eurolife Summer School 2019 in Dublin: Biology of Brain Disorders (BBD) 2019: Frontiers in Innovation. Eurolife will fund 9 grants to students from Eurolife institutions (Please note that the grants cover the registration to the event only. You are expected to organize and …

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology ($25,000), apply by 15 June 2019

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Eppendorf and Science/AAAS established this international prize in 2002 and acknowledges the increasing importance …

Miscellaneous

An Orientation Framework for Good Scientific Practice

The German version of the information brochure “An Orientation Framework for Good Scientific Practice” is now available. The English version is following soon. The brochure offers employees of the University and the University Medical Center guidance by formulating central standards of good scientific practice and explaining the ombuds system and its procedural paths at the University of Göttingen in a …

R-Ladies

A small group of PhD students from the University of Göttingen is currently initiating a local “R-Ladies” group. R is a programming language & free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used and developed by data scientists, researchers, and others around the globe. What is R-Ladies? "RLadies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote Gender Diversity in the R community. …

Dr. Jonas Barth

Scientific Coordinator
Georg-August-University School of Science (GAUSS)
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 | level B01, Room 126 (map) | 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Phone: +49 551 39-4094 | E-mail: office@gauss.uni-goettingen.de
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