How to visualize your scientific ideas and help your audience effortlessly grasp the essence of your research

When reading research papers, conference posters or viewing slide presentations, people look at figures first. To make these effective, we need to follow some fundamental principles and best practices that underlying good visual communication. These are simple to understand and very powerful when applied.

This is a comprehensive workshop that will cover:

This workshop is a useful starting point for those who are considering their next career move. Designed specifically for postdoctoral researchers, the workshop aims at helping raise awareness of your skills, interests and values and to link this information to the process of career decision making. You will have the opportunity to identify your strengths, examine the job market and employer requirements in a range of sectors and formulate a strategy for your own personal and professional development.

Have you ever perform an experiment without really understanding the process behind?

Have you ever try to troubleshoot your experiment and you don't know where to start?

Motivation and description of the course:  Modern Biology is becoming an increasingly quantitative discipline that requires a high degree of interdisciplinary interactions among scientists. Biologists usually face the most difficult part of interdisciplinary collaborations since the level of mathematics needed to develop a fruitful discussion is relatively high.

Madrid, 5th July 2018. - Over 30 million Europeans are affected by a rare disease at some point in their lives. Although individually uncommon, rare diseases collectively affect as many as 7% of the population or 1 in 17 people. 80% of these diseases are of genètic origin. It is essential to use DNA and RNA sequencing and analysis to identify genetic variants that give rise to rare diseases in order to advance research and treatments in this field.

BASIC LINUX COURSE

18/06/2018 - Bioinfomratics room (468) - 4th floor - 10am - 1pm

This course is suitable for beginners and explains the basics of GNU/Linux commands and scripts creation. In particular it encompasses the following key concepts:

This is a practical course for the new Nanodrop equipment, more information HERE.

The workshop will be divided in 2 parts:

1) Theoretical part: 10-11:30h - Italy room (5th floor - hospital wing)

1. Presentation of the new Nanodrop model.

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), in partnership with the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), is organizing the 3^rd Barcelona Science Slam, which will take place on Thursday 31st May at 8 pm in Bar Mau Mau (Fontrodona 35, 08004 Barcelona). This is also a European Science Slam pre-final and the winner will participate in the European final in Toulouse in July 2018.