CENTURI Training Course
CENTURI provides training courses to PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. Each training is designed to help students acquire new skills.
Through CENTURI training courses, PhD students & postdoctoral fellows learn useful knowledge in various topics such as imaging and optics, paper writing or statistics.
Courses and workshops are animated by experts. The training courses are specially designed to suit the needs of students and give them tools for their career.
Training course
Oral Communication 2020
October 14 & 28 and December 02 & 14, 2020
This 2-day training course teaches you how to create fascinating oral presentations, customized for your audience.
Students will first review the basis of oral presentation and learn methodologies to design clear talks and use them to improve their talk. On the second day, students will each apply what they have been taught on the first day by presenting their talk in ordder to benefit from individual feedback from the trainer and other trainees.
The course is dedicated in priority to PhD students (1st and 2nd year) and is limited to 8 students.
2 training sessions (8 students / session) will take place, one in October and another one in December.
Programme:
- Plan and outline your talk
- Design an interactive talk
- Design clear and attractive slides
- Putt it into practice
Instructor: David Karlin
Location: Luminy Campus
Registration deadline: September 29, 2020
Paper Writing
May 04-07, 2020
The CENTURI training course "paper writing" is designed to teach PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows how to write a scientific paper and get it published.
During this training, students will learn how to plan and outline their article and how to be clear and concise. They will also learn useful strategies that can be used to facilitate the publication of their article.
The course will be organised as follow:
- 3 theoretical courses (3h30 each) from May 4th to May 7th. Participants to the course will be asked to fill a Doodle in order to agree on a time schedule.
- 1 practical course (1h45), in pairs, taking place the week after the training course (week of May 11)
A Focus on Imaging
March 02-10, 2020
The "A focus on imaging" training course is an introductory course to different microscopy techniques, image analysis and programming. The course is dedicated to PhD students (1st and 2nd year) willing to explore the most advanced and popular techniques used for biological applications.
By the end of the training the students should have a good understanding of basic optics and imaging techniques as well as image analysis and programming.
Oral communication
December 02 & 09, 2019
This 2-day training course teaches you how to create fascinating oral presentations, customized for your audience.
Students will first learn methodologies to design clear talks and use them to improve their talk. On the second day, students will each present their talk and benefit from individual feedback from the trainer and other trainees.
The course is dedicated in priority to PhD students (1st and 2nd year) and is limited to 8 students.
Programme:
- Plan and outline your talk
- Design an interactive talk
- Design clear and attractive slides
- Putt it into practice
Cell biology by the Numbers
November 04 - 08, 2019
The second edition of the training course "Cell biology by the numbers" will take place from November 4 to 8, 2019. The course will be taught by Rob Phillips, Professor at Caltech, and Muir Morrison (graduate students in Rob Phillips' lab).
The course aims to help students develop an intuition about the orders of magnitude in biology and the plausibility of a hypothesis. This course will highlight a number of key figures that describe the life of the cells and the efforts required to make a final decision on their value.
Paper writing
September 16 - 18, 2019
The CENTURI training course "paper writing" is designed to teach PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows how to write a scientific paper and get it published.
During these 3 days, students will learn how to plan and outline their article and how to be clear and concise. They will also learn useful strategies that can be used to facilitate the publication of their article.
The course is limited to 12 participants.
Programme
- Planning and outlining your article
- Being complete and convincing
- Being clear and concise
- Publishing
Instructor: David Karlin
Oral communication
May 15 & 22, 2019
This 2-day training course will teach you how to create fascinating oral presentations, customized for your audience.
Students will first learn methodologies to design clear talks and use them to improve their talk. On the second day, students will each present their talk and benefit from individual feedback from the trainer and other trainees.
The course is dedicated in priority to PhD students (1st and 2nd year) and is limited to 8 students.
Programme:
- Plan and outline your talk
- Design an interactive talk
- Design clear and attractive slides
- Putt it into practice
Location: Luminy campus
Instructor: David Karlin
A Focus on Imaging
April 01-04, 18 & 23-24, 2019
This training is an introductory course to different microscopy techniques, image analysis and programming. The course is dedicated to PhD students (1st and 2nd year) willing to explore the most advanced and popular techniques used for biological applications.
By the end of the training the students should have a good understanding of basic optics, wide field microscopy, confocal microscopy, F-techniques (FRAP), electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, dyes, detectors, single molecule imaging, super-resolution, light sheet microscopy, image processing and quantitative analysis.
Cell Biology by the Numbers
November 5-9 2018 | Workshop for biologists
The use of centralized, curated and quantitative data is becoming increasingly important in today’s biology. The course « Cell biology by the numbers » highlighted the key numbers which describe the lives of the cells and the necessary efforts to provide definitive statements about their value. Intended for biologists, this course provided participants with the appropriate mathematical tools to apprehend and explore the key numbers of cell biology and many key physico-chemical processes. The course provided key examples about sizes, concentrations, energies and key quantities that describe the living world, in both an entertaining and surprising fashion.
Tutors
Rob Phillips is Professor of Biophysics, Biology and Physics at Caltech (California Institute of technology) and Head of the Physical Biology of the cell group. He works on the development of quantitative, theoretical models to describe a broad range of biological phenomena, such as the organization of the genome and gene regulation or the diversity and ecological role of viruses in their natural environments.
Griffin Chure is a biophycisist graduate student in the lab of Rob Phillips at Caltech.
He works on allosteric control in transcriptional regulation and on mechanosensitive channels.
A Focus on Imaging
12-13 & 16-18 April 2018
This training provided an introductory course to different microscopy techniques, dedicated to PhD students willing to explore the most advanced and popular techniques used for biological applications.
"A focus on imaging" was composed of theoretical courses on the techniques basics and principle and hands-on practical in the laboratory in small groups.