Curriculum


Thursday morning seminars:

  • PI lecture series 
    Students, biweekly, every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at 8 am/6 pm, via zoom for the time being
    PI members give IRTG students an overview of the research and methodologies done in their labs
  • Scientific Thinking: Malaria by the numbers (SciThi)
    Students and PIs, monthly, every 2nd Thursday of the month at 8 am/6 pm, via zoom for the time being
  • Berlin Canberra Malaria Seminar Series (BCMS)
    Students and PIs, monthly 
    Seminars hosted in Berlin take place every 4th Thursday at 10 am via zoom for the time being and will be recorded
    Seminars hosted in Canberra take place on a Thursday at 1 p.m. via zoom for the time being and will be recorded
  • International malaria scientists invited by IRTG members present their research

HUB events: Tuesday afternoon

  • Status report meetings
    Students and PIs (HUB only), monthly, every 4th Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. (presence with snacks and drinks or via zoom)
    Informal get-together to discuss/exchange on recent progress of projects and to get instant input from faculty and students
  • Student’s Journal Club (JC) 
    Students (HUB only), biweekly, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

    Self-organized literature seminar to discuss relevant literature and to relate it to own project
  • LAP – Life after PhD Seminar series (LAP)
    All IRI-LS students, bimonthly, every 3rd Tuesday of the month, 4:30 p.m. (via zoom for the time being, usually at IRI-LS, Maud-Menten-Hall)

    Invited guest speakers from outside academia who share their career paths with PhD students

Other meetings

  • Steering Committee meeting (SC)
    Quarterly, 2nd Tuesday (i.e. 2021 9th Feb, 11th May, 14th Sept, 14th Dec; 2022: Feb 8, May 10, Sept 13,  Dec 13 )
  • Subgroup meetings
    Individual planning of each subgroup, initiated by the students

Exceptional meetings

·       PI sessions in November
Students and PIs, 4 sessions every Thursday, 8 am/6 pm via zoom
Discussing individual projects for the renewal proposal (15 min/project)

·       PI only sessions to discuss the renewal proposal
PIs, every 4th Tuesday of the month, 8 am/6 pm