<div dir="ltr">Forwarding this on behalf of a friend.<div><br></div><div>This is a very intensive course in which I have taught several times myself and that I can recommend very highly.</div><div><br></div><div>Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone potentially interested.<br><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bert<br><div><br></div><div>**********</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">When: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:13px"><span class="">February 10th - February 27th 2016</span></span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Location: Leipzig, Germany</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Application deadline: </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:13px"><span class="">December 20th 2015</span></span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Detailed information about the course content and how to apply:</span><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/</a><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">In this intensive 18 days course, students will learn how to survive in a</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Linux environment, get hands-on experience in two widely used programming</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">languages (Python and R), and statistical data analysis. The classes will be</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">given by experts in the field and consist of lectures and exercises with</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">the computer. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">necessary background and skills to perform computational analyses with a</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">focus on solving research questions related to genomics and evolution. The</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">philosophy of the course will be “learning by doing”, which means that the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">computational skills will be taught using examples and real data from</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">evolutionary biology for the exercises. During the course, students will</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">also propose projects of their own interest and perform them as final</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">projects in small groups under the supervision of a teaching assistant.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">This summer school is open for students from all countries and targeted</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">toward PhD students and postdocs of evolutionary biology or related</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">research fields with no or little programming experience who want to</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">become proficient in computational evolutionary biology in a couple of</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">weeks.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">The course takes place at the University of Leipzig.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">-- </span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Dr. Katja Nowick</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Group Leader "TFome and Transcriptome Evolution"</span><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.nowick-lab.info/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.nowick-lab.info</a><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Universität Leipzig</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Härtelstrasse 16-18</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">04107 Leipzig</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Germany</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Phone 1: </span><a href="tel:%2B49%20341%2097-16684" value="+493419716684" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">+49 341 97-16684</a><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Phone 2: </span><a href="tel:%2B49%20341%2097-16653" value="+493419716653" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">+49 341 97-16653</a><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Fax: </span><a href="tel:%2B49%20341%2097-16679" value="+493419716679" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">+49 341 97-16679</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>**********</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Bert Overduin, PhD</div><div>TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN</div><div><a href="mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div>EDINBURGH GENOMICS</div><div>The University of Edinburgh</div><div>Ashworth Laboratories<br></div><div>The King's Buildings</div><div>Charlotte Auerbach Road</div><div>Edinburgh EH9 3FL</div><div>Scotland, United Kingdom</div><div><br></div><div>tel. +44(0)1316507403</div><div><a href="http://genomics.ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://genomics.ed.ac.uk</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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