Forwarding this on behalf of a friend. This is a very intensive course in which I have taught several times myself and that I can recommend very highly. Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone potentially interested. Cheers, Bert ********** Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology When: February 10th - February 27th 2016 Location: Leipzig, Germany Application deadline: December 20th 2015 Detailed information about the course content and how to apply: http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/ In this intensive 18 days course, students will learn how to survive in a Linux environment, get hands-on experience in two widely used programming languages (Python and R), and statistical data analysis. The classes will be given by experts in the field and consist of lectures and exercises with the computer. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the necessary background and skills to perform computational analyses with a focus on solving research questions related to genomics and evolution. The philosophy of the course will be “learning by doing”, which means that the computational skills will be taught using examples and real data from evolutionary biology for the exercises. During the course, students will also propose projects of their own interest and perform them as final projects in small groups under the supervision of a teaching assistant. This summer school is open for students from all countries and targeted toward PhD students and postdocs of evolutionary biology or related research fields with no or little programming experience who want to become proficient in computational evolutionary biology in a couple of weeks. The course takes place at the University of Leipzig. -- Dr. Katja Nowick Group Leader "TFome and Transcriptome Evolution" www.nowick-lab.info Universität Leipzig Härtelstrasse 16-18 04107 Leipzig Germany Phone 1: +49 341 97-16684 Phone 2: +49 341 97-16653 Fax: +49 341 97-16679 ********** -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.