Newsletter GAUSS

Call for course registrations – November 2025

The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in November 2025 will be open from 1 September 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.

You can register from 1-20 September online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in November; the slots will be allocated around 25 September.

Courses that do not reach the minimum number of participants will be cancelled. Only in very exceptional cases will we send reminders for courses which are not full yet, so make sure to register in time.

Please check carefully for scheduling conflicts. Registration after 20 September 2025 is not possible, please do not contact the course instructors. All communication regarding the courses should be via the GAUSS or GGNB Office.

In case you have registered but then need to cancel a course, you can still do so in Stud.IP before the end of September. From 1 October 2025 your participation will be binding and cancellation is only possible via the GGNB or GAUSS Office with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor for scientific reasons. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months(!), as well as grants or scholarships and other financial support. No exceptions.

For a full list of courses scheduled for the winter semester 2025/26 please go to HISinOne EXA – the data are subject to changes and therefore preliminary!

A detailed description on how to register for a course via Stud.IP can be found here: Courses_Instructions

Note: By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates – the above mentioned sanctions apply!); (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation; (5) inform us if you no longer wish to maintain a waiting list position; (6) that you only receive credits for attending the entire workshop – you will not get partial credits for part-time attendance.

Important: Active participation in online (skills & methods) courses is prerequisite to collect the respective credits. Active participation with the camera running is set as a prerequisite for course participation.

Confirmations of participation are to be obtained from Stud.IP.

Professional Skills Courses

Courses recommended for “early/middle/late PhD“

  • Drug Discovery and Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Gunnar Dietz, 24-25 Oct 2025 (Fr/Sat) + mandatory excursion to Bionorica on 30 Oct 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340242, ID: S 64),
  • Critical Reasoning and Logic by Malte Engel, 11-12 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340407, ID: S 91),
  • Introduction to Public Relations for Young Scientists by Melissa Sollich, Romas Bielke, Friday and Monday from 10-13h in November, online, 0.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340297, ID: S 59),

Last Chance Professional Skills Courses

  • Affinity Designer Beginner’s Course by Anna Penkner and Renate Pommerening, 29 Sept 2025 (2 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), in presence, 0.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340574, ID: GS 26_1),
  • Affinity Designer Beginner’s Course by Anna Penkner and Renate Pommerening, 30 Sept 2025 (2 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), in presence, 0.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340574, ID: GS 26_2),
  • Mental strategies for PhD students by Dr. Harald Roth, 5 sessions: Thursdays, 14-18h (9, 16, 23, 30 Oct + 6 Nov 2025) (4 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), online, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340507, ID: S 86),
  • Scientific English for PhD students in the natural sciences by Adolph van der Walt, Oct 2025 – Feb 2026, Tuesdays (17:15-18:45h), 12 sessions starting 27 Oct 2025 (5 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340444, ID: L17),

German Language Courses (open only for students of certain doctoral programs): see announcements in GAUSS Newsletters.

ZESS courses (skills, languages): https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/423445.html

Methods Courses

Biochemistry

  • Principles and methods of protein purification by chromatography by Kai Tittmann, Fabian Rabe von Pappenheim, 10-11 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340018, ID: A 064)

Molecular Biology & Genetics

  • Viral transduction systems by Stefan Pöhlmann, Michael Winkler, Markus Hoffmann, 4-6 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340221, ID: A 171)
  • Evolutionary Genomics of Biodiverse Reproductive Systems by Elvira Hörandl, Antje Menster, November 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340037, ID: A 304)

Cell Biology & Microbiology, Imaging

  • Introduction to image processing in biology with ImageJ and FIJI by Mišo Mitkovski, 12-14 Nov 2025, online, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340066, ID: A 098)
  • Tracing demographic histories from NGS data by Christian Roos, Liye Zhang, Lakshmi Seshadri, 3-4 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340322, ID: A 291)
  • Tracing selective sweeps in NGS data by Christian Roos, Liye Zhang, Lakshmi Seshadri, 10-11 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340323, ID: A 292)

Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, Electrophysiology

  • Patch clamp by Luis Pardo, 12-14 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340040, ID: A 063)

Theoretical, Systems & Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Collective Dynamics of Biological Neural Networks I by Fred Wolf, Michael Wibral, Tim Gollisch, Fridays, starting from 7 Nov 2025, in presence, 3.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 530170, ID: A 021)
  • Auditory and visual evoked potentials by Andrea Antal, Nicola Strenzke, 6-7 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340054, ID: A 041)

Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Statistics

  • How to learn from complex data II: simulation-based inference in Physics and Life Sciences by Michael Wibral, Richard Gao, 9-10 Sep 2025, register via email to cidbn@uni-goettingen.de by 2 Sep 2025, in presence, 0.5 Credits (ID: A 307)
  • Theoretical and Computational Biophysics by Helmut Grubmüller, Bert de Groot, Mondays, starting from 27 Oct 2025, in presence, 2.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340232, ID: A 143)
  • Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems – Lecture Series by Bert de Groot, Helmut Grubmüller, Mondays starting from 3 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340166, ID: A 025)
  • Basic statistics for graduate students in the life sciences – an introduction using R by Tim Friede, Christian Röver, 4-25 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340061, ID: A 100)
  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) – Analysis of RNAseq and ChIP-seq data by Tim Beißbarth, Maksims Fiosins, Nico Posnien, 19-21 Nov 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340208, ID: A 157)

Vertebrate Animal Models

  • Animal Models of multiple sclerosis I by Martin Weber, Jasmin Ochs, 20-21 Oct 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340645, ID: A 296)
  • Animal Models of multiple sclerosis II by Martin Weber, Jasmin Ochs, 22-23 Oct 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340650, ID: A 296)
  • Animal models of Alzheimer’s Disease by Yvonne Bouter, November 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340021, ID: A 300)