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Conference in Sweden: The Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW) 2024

The Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW) is an annual event that has been organized by different universities in Sweden since 2000. It is the biggest meeting of bioinformaticians and computational biologists in Sweden. Senior scientists and non-academic participants are welcome. In addition, the SBW2024 is part of the Nordic Computational Biology (Nordic CompBio) week and is open to participants from other Nordic countries (Estonia included).

Application deadline: 1st of October 2024

Date: 4-5 November 2024

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Online: Ensuring More Accurate, Generalisable, and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Bioinformatics

This course is addressed to life scientists, bioinformaticians, and computational biologists who would like to learn more about general best practices in Machine Learning and get more out of their Machine Learning models: more precise hyper-parameters, more generalizable models, and more interpretable models.

Application deadline: 29 September 2024

Date: 15 October 2024

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Course in Lausanne, Switzerland: Biodiversity bioinformatics- from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions

This course is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral and other researchers in the life sciences who are planning how to proceed with comparative genomics analyses to investigate biological or evolutionary questions of importance to their study system, particularly to leverage comparative genomics tools and resources to characterise the gene repertoires of their non-model species.

Application deadline: 16 July 2024

Date: 26 - 28 August 2024

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Online workshop: Strategies for training and knowledge exchange with a consulting perspective

Join this workshop if you are interested in:

  • learning evidence-based best practices for teaching
  • how to create a positive environment for learners at your workshops
  • how to provide opportunities for you to practise and improve your teaching skills.
  • how to survey people’s training needs
  • learning how to get the most out of any consulting possibilities you offer
  • how to effectively manage tasks and projects
  • how to initiate new projects and how to prioritise
  • learning how to balance consultancy, training, and IT tasks

Registration deadline: June 7, 2024

Date: June 25, 2024 - June 26, 2024, From 09:00 to 16:00 (CEST)

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