Practical Linux 

Date:  4 November (this edition is fully booked). Upon registration you will be informed as soon as a new date for this course is known

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. Registration for an edition after the edition of November 4 is already open but the date of the course has to be decided.

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 and registration or register directly via https://forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/LINUX 

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

Code management with Git
New date: 15 November, 2024, 10:00 - 16:00, LUMC , room J1-82

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. Or if you would like to participate in one of the editions after 15 November you can indicate it on the registration form.

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 and registration or register directly via the link

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

Python Programming

Date: 2 - 5 December

LUMC: J-01-082 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.

Registration: via the link  (https://forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/Pythonprog) 

Single Cell analysis

Date: 29 October - 1 November, 2024, Room CQ-1Da, GK building, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Course coordinators: Dr. Susan Kloet (LUMC), Dr. Miao-Ping Chien (Erasmus MC), Dr. Ahmed Mahfouz (LUMC)

Organizer: MGC & BioSB research school

Program

This 4 days-long course will cover the practicalities of single-cell sample prep and analysis with a particular focus on single-cell RNA-seq libraries. This course is aimed at both wet-lab researchers interested in learning how to analyze their own single-cell data sets, as well as bioinformaticians who are new to single-cell sequencing analysis. Basic knowledge of the programming language R is a prerequisite for participation in the course.

The course features a mix of lectures and practicals, and you will have the opportunity to perform hands-on analysis of scRNA-seq data in R. Topics to be covered in the course include (but not limited to): an overview of different single cell platforms, experimental design, preprocessing of scRNA-seq data, normalization, dimensionality reduction, clustering, batch correction, differential expression, trajectory inference. The fifth day of the course will be a mini-symposium featuring guest lectures from scientists using various single-cell techniques in their research.

All potential participants are asked to write a motivation letter that will be used to make a selection out of the registered people. You can register via the registration form: follow the link: https://forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/SingleCell

Deadline for registration: 31 August and you will be informed soon thereafter if you are selected for the course or not. There is a max of 40 participants.

The course is free of charge for all personnel of MGC associated institutes. Participants from outside these organizations pay 400 euro.

Course Credits: the study load of this course is 2 ECTS credits. You can send an email to nivard@lumc.nl to receive a certificate after successfully completing this course.

Protein aggregation disorders: from clinic to therapy 
Date: 28 - 29 November, 2024, location: Erasmus MC

Course coordinators: Willeke Roon-Mom , Ronald Buijsen,  Vered Raz (LUMC) and Wim Mandemakers (Erasmus MC)

This course will discuss the main molecular mechanisms regulating protein homeostasis and protein folding with a focus a mechanistic foundation in protein aggregation disorders. We will focus on four selected diseases and will discuss genetic, clinic, and current knowledge of disease mechanisms and models for examples. The end point of this course will be development of novel therapeutic strategies to combat protein aggregation in pathological conditions.

Program 2024

The course is free of charge for all personnel of MGC associated institutes. Participants from outside these organizations pay 250 euro.  Deadline for registration: 10 November
For registration follow this link.

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 2 weeks before the start of the course
•            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: €100 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