Newsletter GAUSS

Call for course registrations – April 2025

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

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

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 February 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 February. From 1 March 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 summer semester 2025 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“

  • Scientific Writing and Publishing by Martina Michalikova, 4+15+29 Apr & 13 May (14:00-16:00 h), online, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340562, ID: S 90),
  • Scientific English for PhD students in the natural sciences by Adolph van der Walt, Apr 2025 – July 2025, Tuesdays (18:15-19:45h), exact times TBA, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340444, ID: L 17),
  • Project and Time management in academia by Peter Schröder, 24-25 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340652, ID: S 100),
  • Convincing successfully and nicely saying no by Elisabeth Schick, 28-29 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340667, ID: W 09),

Last Chance Professional Skills Courses

  • Intercultural Communication (Working across borders…) by Alexia Petersen, 27-28 Feb 2025 (5 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340139, ID: S 05),
  • Good scientific practice (focus on physics) by Sarah Köster, 3-4 Mar 2025 (9 free slots – register via email to ggnb@gwdg.de), in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 535470, ID: GS 23),

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

Molecular Biology & Genetics

  • Molecular Biology of HIV replication and pathogenesis by Stefan Pöhlmann, Thursdays, starting from 17 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 350058, ID: A 160)
  • STED nanoscopy and immunolabeling by Stefan Jakobs, Daniel Jans, 8-9 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340459, ID: A 260)
  • Evolutionary Genomics of Biodiverse Reproductive Systems by Elvira Hörandl, Antje Menster, 25 Apr – 4 Jul 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, 9-11 Apr 2025, online, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340066, ID: A 098)

Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, Electrophysiology

  • Nerve cell culture and patch-clamp recordings from nerve cells by JeongSeop Rhee, 17-18 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340038, ID: A 096)
  • Neuronal circuit dissection in Drosophila by André Fiala, Ismael Fernández Hernández, 9-11 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340319, ID: A 216)

Theoretical, Systems & Behavioral Neuroscience

  • Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Collective Dynamics of Biological Neural Networks II by Fred Wolf, Fridays, starting from 24 Apr 2025, in presence, 3.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 350036, ID: A 022)
  • Auditory and visual evoked potentials by Andrea Antal, Nicole Strenzke, 24-25 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340054, ID: A 041)
  • Introduction to Matlab in Systems Neuroscience by Alexander Gail, 23 Apr – 6 Jun 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340043, ID: A 073)

Structural Biology

  • EPR-Spectroscopy by Marina Bennati, Luming Yang, Alexander van der Ham, 14-16 Apr 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340055, ID: A 003)
  • X-ray crystallography by Piotr Neumann, 7-11 Apr OR 14-18 Apr 2025 (tbd with registered participants), in presence, 2.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340130, ID: A 103)
  • Characterization and quantification of biomolecular interactions by fluorescence polarization by Hauke Hillen, April 2025, in presence, 0.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340500, ID: A 281)

Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Statistics

  • Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems – Lecture Series by Bert de Groot, Florentin Wörgötter, Mondays, starting from 14 Apr 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, 22 Apr – 13 May 2025, in presence, 1.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340061, ID: A 100)
  • Biomolecular Physics and Simulations by Helmut Grubmüller, Bert de Groot, Mondays, starting from 14 Apr 2025, in presence, 2.0 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340204, ID: A 170)
  • Introduction to neural data analysis with Python by Tim Gollisch, Shashwat Sridhar, Apr/May 2025, in presence, 1.5 Credits (EXA Stud.IP: 340455, ID: A 258)