Start your PhD with confidence and clarityBeginning your PhD is an exciting new chapter — and a big step. The expectations shift from passing courses to creating original research, from following directions to defining your own path. It’s a journey that demands more than technical skills: it requires focus, organisation, communication, and the ability to manage yourself and your project with confidence.
This two-day interactive workshop is designed to help you start your PhD on solid ground. You’ll gain the essential, non-technical skills that will make your research life easier, more effective, and more rewarding. Through hands-on activities, reflection and collaboration, you’ll learn practical tools you can apply right away — to plan your work, communicate with impact, build positive collaborations and keep your motivation strong.
The Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility is organising a course on Advanced Optical and Fluorescence Microscopy and BioImage Analysis.
In this course we will introduce the basic concepts, techniques and procedures of Project Management.
Do you supervise master’s or PhD students? This interactive two-day online workshop will help you develop practical skills and best practices to effectively support your students. You’ll learn how to navigate supervisory challenges, build strong mentoring relationships, and balance this role with other responsibilities.
Elevate your research communication with our "From Sketch to Vector" workshop, led by Graphit. This course will equip you with essential skills in Adobe Illustrator for creating professional, publication-ready graphics, and GraphPad Prism for impactful data visualization and statistical analysis. Learn to design, refine, and seamlessly integrate your figures, ensuring your science stands out. Transform your data into stunning visuals and enhance your research's impact!
📅 Dates: June 16 & 17, 2025
🕤 Time: 09:30–17:30 (both days)
📍 Location:
• June 16th – Tower R, Room 1
• June 17th – Tower I, Room 1
👤 Trainer: Dr Gavin Lucas (TPM Science)
🎯 Target audience: 3rd-4th year PhD students & Jr. Postdoctoral Researchers ONLY FROM IRB BARCELONA
The workshop will provide a general description of the unit, an introduction to basic statistical concepts, an overview of research integrity topics and research data management, and hands-on experience of bioinformatic tools available on the web.
The Writing Bootcamp is a multi-session online course designed for final-year PhD students who plan to submit their thesis by the end of 2025. It offers a practical, structured approach to thesis writing, combining theory, tools, hands-on experience, and peer support.
We will cover theory and practice which should mean that by the end, not only will you know more about writing your thesis, you may well have written some of it! This will be achieved by you carrying on the learning between the sessions and doing set tasks. These tasks are not compulsory but are part of the design of the workshop and are very much aimed at helping you write the thesis.
In this course we will introduce the basic concepts, techniques and procedures of Project Management.
This course aims to familiarize students with key concepts related to research integrity and encourage reflection, discussion, and critical thinking about responsible research conduct and its role in today’s challenging research culture.
Entrepreneurship & innovation training course optimised for biomedical researchers is aligned with market demands and strategic policies. This course seeks to empower junior scientists by giving them the tools to explore their potential as entrepreneurs and their interest in pursuing careers in business or innovation management, thereby increasing their employability in academia and beyond.
The Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility is organising a 8-hours course on Advanced Optical and Fluorescence Microscopy and BioImage Analysis.
The workshop will introduce participants to the field of experimental histopathology by reviewing the basic concepts of pathology (macroscopic and microscopic lesions/tissue evaluation), and the routine and specialised histological techniques (IHC, IF, FISH, miltiplexingIF, etc) used to obtain and process tissue samples. Notions of digital pathology and image analysis will be also covered.
Moreover, several examples of the applications of histopathological studies to biomedical research will be presented.
The session is addressed mainly to PhD researchers and users of the Histopathology Facility (previous registration requested).
In this course we will introduce the basic concepts, techniques and procedures of Project Management.
The first session will concentrate on the well-established methods of classical transgenesis and gene-targeting via embryonic stem cells, and will include examples of how to produce a range of mutation types; for example over-expression models, gene knock-outs and point mutations, both constitutive and conditional.
The second session will address more recent developments, such as the use of gene-editing nucleases, their advantages and limitations, and novel methods of gene transfer.
In this course we will introduce the basic concepts, techniques and procedures of Project Management.