iRTG Program WiSe 2019/20 – Page 3 – Integrated Research Training Group of the SFB/TRR 102

Good scientific practice seminar (November 26, 2019)

This seminar presented the basic principles and rules of good scientific practice. Fundamentals of scientific work, i.e. professional standards and documentation of results, were discussed. Further topics were handling of primary data (backup and storing) and scientific publications (authorship and scam journals). Also management of research data, following the FAIR principles were briefly introduced. Recent examples of scientific misconduct illustrate the official procedures at the institutions and possible consequences. The rules apply worldwide and for all subjects and every researcher at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics has to comply with these rules.

Target audience

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Know your competencies – find your job: job search for scientists (January 21-22, 2020)

Scientists have lots of job options, but are often not aware of them. This workshop supported them to see more of them on the German labour market. They learnt to go the different steps of job search: to be aware of their competencies, skills and knowledge and to build their career strategies based on them.

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iRTG lecture series by Ralph Colby (October 28/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3

Polyelectrolyte Solutions: The least understood form of condensed matter

by Ralph H. Colby, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Polyelectrolytes are polymer chains with covalently bonded ions and oppositely charge counterions. The combination of electrostatic interactions and conformational entropy of polymer chains led Nobel Laureate de Gennes to term this class of materials as the least understood form of condensed matter. Yet polyelectrolytes are essential for life, as DNA and RNA are both polyelectrolytes. Continue reading “iRTG lecture series by Ralph Colby (October 28/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3”

iRTG Program WiSe 2019/20 – Overview

Doctoral students seminars

October 22, 2019 at MLU

Anton Mordvinkin on “Mechanistic investigations of dynamics in supramolecular polymer networks” (abstract)

November 5, 2019 at 10am, MLU

Anna Naumova on “NMR studies of polymer networks under deformation” (abstract)

November 26, 2019 at MLU

Martin Kordts on “Triangulating protein-liposome interactions with EPR spectroscopy” (abstract)

December 17, 2019 at MLU

End of the year seminar (abstract)

January 14, 2020 at UL

Torsten John on “Interaction and aggregation mechanisms of peptides at biologically relevant interfaces” (abstract)

February 25, 2020 at MLU

Matthias Fischer and Maria Camilles

April 2020

Sergei Wittchen and Bruno Voigt

May 2020

Nazmul Hasan and Sayed Mohammad Fahimi

Advanced Training Modules

Basic Concepts in Biochemistry – Protein Chemistry for non-Biochemists (cancelled) [by BuildMoNa]
Chemometrics Applied to Spectroscopic Data (October 15-16, 2019) [by BuildMoNa]
Cell Methods (November 05 – 06, 2019) [by TRR 67]
Materials in Medicine (November 27-28, 2019) [by TRR 67]
Modeling protein mutations with Rosetta (December 05 – 19, 2019) [by TRR 67]
FTIR (December 5-6, 2019) [by iGS-FP]
EPR (February 2019) [by iGS-FP]

Workshops

3rd Open-Science-Workshop at MLU (October 29, 2019)
Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Faculty of Natural Sciences II – Ralph Colby (November 6, 2019)
Mini workshop of SFB/TRR 102 (November 8, 2019)
20th International NTZ-Workshop on
New Developments in Computational Physics – CompPhys19 (November 28-30, 2019)
Mini symposium of the SFB/TRR 102 (December 13, 2019)
iRTG & iGS workshop (February 2020)
Retreat of the SFB/TRR 102 (March 10-12, 2020)

iRTG lecture series

Toward a unified molecular-level understanding of polymer mechanics, lectures by Shi-Qing Wang from the University of Akron, USA (October 14, 2019) | part 1
Polyelectrolyte Solutions: The least understood form of condensed matter, lecture series by Ralph Colby from The Pennsylvania State University, USA (October 28/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3

Excursion

Excursion to Trinseo Deutschland GmbH (November 21, 2019) [organized by iGS-FP]
iRTG meets industry: Excursion to Evonik (November 13-14, 2019)

Upcoming workshops by yDiv (September 2019 and WiSe 2019/20)

Building R packages with Rstudio and GitHub (September 23-24, 2019)
Supervision of Master students (September 27, 2019)
Critical Reasoning and Debating in Science (October 10, 2019)
Bayesian Statistics (October 21-23, 2019)
Making Sense of High-Throughput Sequencing (short read) Data (October 28-29, 2019)
Introduction to Python (December 2-4, 2019)

Please follow the links and register at the website of yDiv, in case of interest.

[iGS FP] Excursion to Trinseo Deutschland GmbH (November 21, 2019)

NEW DATE: Excursion to Trinseo Deutschland GmbH (November 21, 2019)

Excursion to Evonik Industries AG, Marl (November 13-14, 2019)

The SFB/TRR 102 arranged an excursion to Evonik Industries AG at Chemiepark Marl on November 13-14 2019. The chemical park in Marl is one of the largest chemical parks in Germany and the largest production site of Evonik. Members of the SFB together with its integrated research training group of Martin-Luther-Universität and Universität Leipzig, as well as other interested participants, got an insight into research and the facilities of Evonik in Marl. Bus transport and accommodation was provided by the SFB/TRR 102.

Travel information (November 13-14, 2019)

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