Practical Linux 

Date:  11 February 2025 and 13 May 2025, register here 

Time: 10:00 - 14:00?

Location: LUMC, room J-01-082 (route 555) 

Registration applies on a first-come, first-served basis. If fully booked your name will be put on a reserve list which gives you priority for next edition.

Organizer: Mihai Lefter

After completing this short, half day, course attendees will be able to swiftly start using Linux both on a server as well as on their personal computer.
There are no prerequisites, but the Linux course is mandatory for the courses: Shark, Code management with Git, Scripting for life science researcher, and Python programming.

For more information

The course is free of charge. See cancellation rules at the bottom of this page.

Code management with Git

Date: 19 February 2025 and 20 May 2025, register here

Location: LUMC, room J-01-082 (route 555)

Registration applies on a first-come, first-served basis. If fully booked your name will be put on a reserve list which gives you priority for next edition.

Organizer: Mihai Lefter

This course aims at everyone who works in the Bioinformatics field. We cover a version control system named Git. This system is widely used by software developers but can also be used for project management. By keeping track of all versions, history, etc. collaboration with colleagues is easy and your analysis will be reproducible. Knowledge of Linux is required to follow this course.

For more information

The course is free of charge. See cancellation rules at the bottom of this page. 

Technology Facilities course day: Genomics & Transcriptomics

Date: 6 March 2025, register here

Location: LUMC, room J-01-117

Organizers: Susan Kloet (LUMC) and Linda Broer (EMC)

The course is directed primarily at PhD candidates who just started their research or are not familiar with the different topics but other participants are welcome too. One can also subscribe for individual days.

For the program, click here

There is a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 40 places per course day. Deadline for registration 19 February (14 days before the course day).
The course is free of charge for all personnel from MGC institutes. Participants from outside these institutes pay for a single day €100. See also cancellation rules at the bottom of this page.

Genome Maintenance and Cancer

Date: 25-26 March 2025, register here

Location: LUMC, CZ-2

Organizers: Marcel Tijsterman and Haico van Attikum

The aim of the course is to familiarize participants with the mechanisms that are involved in maintaining genome stability. The course will provide an up to date insight in the chain of reactions from exposure to ultimate consequences. Lectures will deal with the basic principles of several cell biological aspects such as DNA damage formation, signaling pathways, DNA repair and mutation formation. A few lectures will deal with more applied research. There is a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 30 places.

The course is free of charge for all personnel of MGC associated institutes, Erasmus MC and OOA (VUMC, AMC, NKI departments). Participants from outside these organizations pay € 200 for this course.

Python Programming

Date: 7 - 10 July 2025, register here

Location: LUMC, J-01-083 and Lecture room 7 (Building 1)

Registration applies on a first-come, first-served basis. If fully booked your name will be put on a reserve list which gives you priority for next edition.

Organizer: Mihai Lefter 

The course is targeted at PhD students, postdocs, or anyone willing to learn how to program in Python. Participants are assumed to have some experience with programming, but not necessarily in Python, and the UNIX shell. For this reason it is mandatory to follow the Practical Linux and Code management with git courses before.

There will be a focus on bioinformatics and programming to support scientific research in general. The program consists of four mornings with lessons and some assignments to be done in your own time (i.e., during the afternoons).

The course is free of charge for all personnel from MGC  and Erasmus MC institutes. Participants from outside these institutes pay €400. There is a maximum of 20 places. See cancellation rules at the bottom of this page. 

Scripting for Life Science Researchers

No date yet, add your name to the waiting list here; once sufficient interested people apply, a session for this course will be arranged.

Organizer: Mihai Lefter

This course is designed for researchers, who frequently handle large datasets or large numbers of files (images, sequence reads, mass spectra etc.) and who need a more efficient way of working with such data. The goal of the course is to empower students and researchers with backgrounds in biology or biomedicine to navigate, manage and perform operations on files and data and metadata in tabular text formats. The data may be microscopy images, FASTA sequences, gene ontology files, chromatograms, mass spectra or tables with data on genes or proteins. The course is not a general introduction to programming and will not deal with XML data, Web services or more advanced topics. For the Scripting course it is required to have followed the Linux course first. In case you haven’t done this yet, you can subscribe via the MGC website for next edition of the Practical Linux course.

MGC courses: general cancellation rules for MGC members 

The courses are free of charge but please note that we have set up strict cancellation rules:

•            Free cancellation up to 1 week before the start of a one day course and up to 2 weeks before other courses

•            Cancellations after the mentioned time interval until one day before the start of the course: €50 per course day unless you have a replacement. In that case name and email address plus confirmation from the replacement is included in the cancellation email to the MGC secretariat nivard@lumc.nl 

•            In case of no-show up: €75 per course day

In collaboration with the Erasmus MC graduate school - see course program

Safely working in the Laboratory

This course is not offered face to face. You can request login details from the video recordings of the 2020 course at nivard@lumc.nl