PhD Programs

English (winter), in persona and online

K. Jung and staff

Wed 18.02.26 - Fri 20.02.26, 9:00 - 16:00

- Introduction to R programming; data structures and data processing in R
- Statistical methods for the analysis of scientific experiments (statistical testing, regression, analysis of variance, correlation analysis)
- Basics of bioinformatics (sequence alignment, phylogenetics, analysis of molecular high-throughput data from microarray and NGS experiments, normalization, visualization multiple testing, gene-set enrichment machine learning, artificial intelligence).

obligatory for 1st year students PhD Programme Focus Reproduction: POSTPONED to winter term 2026

Bajcsy, Brehm, Garrels, Goericke-Pesch, Klein, Kues, Metzger, Niemann, Pfarrer, Schmicke, Sieme, Waberski, Wolkers

To be announced

Basic and recent developments in reproductive biology, assisted reproduction techniques, and breeding strategies are discussed. Students in the first year Focus Programme Reproduction choose a topic to do an own seminar. At the beginning of the 90 min lecture, the professor gives a 45 min introductory talk followed by a 30 min presentation of one student. The lecture will end up with a 15 min discussion open to the auditorium.

Individual lab course

Lecturers of the HGNI

To be announced

This course aims to provide hands-on learning in labs with focus on specific state-of-the-art techniques that are relevant or of individual interest for the PhD student. Experienced lecturers and scientists provide the benefits of live, in-person training. Extensive training is provided by the labs.
This course thereby also stimulates cooperations among scientists between different HGNI-institutions or cooperating labs.


The students gain experience on specific state-of-the-art techniques, which are relevant for infection research. The course includes
? background knowledge about the principles of the technique
? practical hands-on-training including trouble shooting
? user examples on scientific application of the respective technique

K. Jung and Research Staff

Wed 15.10.25 - Wed 28.01.26, 13:00 - 14:00

Presentation and discussions on the following topics:
* analysis pipelines for NGS data
* analysis pipelines for high-dimensional expression data
* machine learning approaches
* software presentations
* status reports of PhD projects
* presentation of new literature

Metzger, Khaveh

Fri 17.10.25 - Fri 24.10.25, 14:00 - 15:30

This seminar series provides a foundational overview of nucleotide-based omics, covering DNA, RNA, and epigenetic regulation. Participants will gain insight into the molecular layers of gene regulation and learn about the basic principles of library preparation and sequencing technologies.

IBS (Infektionsbiologisches Seminar)

Volz (Organisation)

Tue 14.10.25, 11:30 - 13:00

Invited speakers present results of their current research on infectious agents.