Courses and workshops

The Graduate Research School in Integrative Biology (IBIO) courses are held at the biology and chemistry departments at Lund University and are generally between one to four days in length. The Life Sciences programme courses at the Faculty of Science are included in our course program in addition to several of the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) courses.

The courses vary according to the developments in the field. Examples of potential courses include:

• Introduction to AI
• Proteins and proteomics: protein structure prediction
• Digital image analysis for scientific applications
• Analyses of environmental DNA (eDNA)
• Estimating signs of selection in genes and genomes
• Phylogenetic comparative analysis
• Human evolutionary genetics and paleogenetics
• Protein crystallography
• Single particle cryoEM
• Protein Factories
• Live cell imaging

All our courses are free of charge for students enrolled in the Graduate Research School of Integrative Biology and are eligible for university credits. Further course information will soon be found in our learning management system Canvas.

We will cover the course fee for enrolled students on several relevant external courses, such as the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) courses, subject to request and availability. Please contact us directly with questions about the potential for the research school to cover the fees for these courses (bengt [dot] hansson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se).

Save the date

We are in the process ot IBIO winter meeting in Lund on the 4 and 5 December 2024. Please save these date in your calendar now. More information coming soon!

Upcoming courses

Science communication and its role in society

18-22 November 2024, Lund University (3 ECTS)

This course gives knowledge and understanding how effective science communication works and discusses the role of science in society. Through seminars, discussion groups, self-directed learning and project work, the course provides skills to condense and convey key messages clearly, to define target audiences for different types of communication and develops effective techniques to deliver and receive information through different channels. There will be preparatory tasks the week before the course begins and you will work full days during the course period.

Course description (PDF, 253 kB, new tab, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science website)
Host: Centre for Environmental and Climate Science and Department of Geology, Lund University
Register for the course through the webform (google forms)
Course leader: Johanna Stadmark, Johanna [dot] Stadmark [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna[dot]Stadmark[at]geol[dot]lu[dot]se)

AlphaFold2 Workshop

2-3 December 2024, Lund University (0.5 ECTS)

This course will provide an introduction to modelling protein structures and small complexes, interpreting and visualising the results. Course participants will gain theroetical knowledge, as well as hands-on experience, of the cutting-edge method AlphaFold2.

Course leader: Bhanu Chouhan (LU-Fold engineer)

Register no later than 11 november though this form.

Introduction to R

Dates of the next course to be announced (1.5 ECTS)

This course’s aim is to provide a basic introduction to R, preparing students for using R in their own research. The course will use a combination of brief lectures and tutorials where the students will work on prepared problems. The last day of the course will include an open problems session where students are encouraged to bring their own data or analysis problems.

We will cover:

• basic R commands,
• basic data manipulation in R (different data structures),
• import and export of data,
• plotting commands (basic plotting and ggplot),
• functions for data summary and manipulation (for example computing means, variances, maxima,
  minima, and apply-functions) and
• time permitting – basic statistics.

Course leader: Johan Lindström

National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) courses

These course may also be of interest.

Population Genomics in Practice

2-6 December, the deadline to apply is 15 October. You apply to and find more information about the course Population Genomics in Practice on SciLifeLab’s website.