Venue: University of Lausanne => ONLINE

Course in collaboration with the CUSO Doctoral Programs in StarOmics, Molecular Plant Sciences & Microbiology

Dr Jan Wunder, Wunder Consulting Wald ZH

Dr. Tina Cornioley, ETH Zürich

The open source software R (http://www.r-project.org) has revolutionized the statistical data analysis for most bioscience disciplines.The required time to learn the R software is well invested, since the R environment covers an unmatched spectrum of statistical tools including an efficient programming language for automating time-consuming analysis routines. Due to its popularity, R is continuously updated and extended with the latest analysis tools that are available in the different research fields. The R environment is completely free and runs on all common operating systems.

This course provides an elementary-level introduction into the R environment covering the following topics:

(1) Object-oriented programming & command line interface

(2) Work environment & data import/export,

(3) Data structures

(4) Data exploration

(5) Data visualisation

(6) Basic hypothesis testing

(7) R Programming

The attendees will practice their newly learned skills using exercises on the computer. Participants could also bring their own data sets for a first exploratory round.

Please bring your laptop to the course with the last version of the R software (https://www.r-project.org/) and R Studio (rstudio.com) installed!

Dates: 14, 15 & 24 September 2020 (3 days)

Schedule: 9:00-12:00 and 13:30-17:00

Location: University of Lausanne, room CubotronIII      ONLINE !

ECTS: 2.0 (Research tools)

Evaluation: Full attendance, active participation and possible examination

Information

• Please bring your laptop to the course with the last version of the R software (https://www.r-project.org/) and R Studio (rstudio.com) installed!

Registration fee: Free for PhD students enrolled into the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology

Meals: The Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology does not reimburse meal expenses

Travel expenses: For participants of the Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology, 2nd class, half-fare, city-tickets to Lausanne University will be reimbursed. Please contact Pauline Fritsch before sending the original train tickets.

Priority is given to PhD students of the Doctoral Programs CUSO Microbiol, CUSO MPS, CUSO StarOmics, and Neuchâtel DP-biol until 16 August 2020

• Maximum number of participants: 16
• Limited number of participants: only 4 places for Neuchâtel Organismal Biology PhD students (DPOB)

Online registration on the CUSO doctoral program Microbiology website. There are 0 places left for DPOB, the workshop is full !

Deadline: 30 August 2020

Cancellation policy (CHF 40) .