Graduate School of Life Sciences (Life@FAU)

Life@FAU is an institution which is funded equally by the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Sciences.

Aims

The aims of Life@FAU are to strengthen structured doctoral training at FAU, to establish standardised minimum requirements for doctoral training in the life sciences, and to provide existing and future structured training programmes.

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Benefits

Mentoring by self-chosen mentoring committee

Various trainings

Self-managed study book

Networking

Valuable certificate

Equivalence of structured training

Structured training even if you are not a member of a research group

465 Members

News

07MAY 2026
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Bioinformatics Workshops Summer offers
Our new workshop dates for summer 2026 are online. The CUBiDA (Core Unit Bioinformatics, Data Integration and Analysis) team regularly offers a series of bioinformatics workshops and training courses designed to progressively build your data analysis skills for analyzing your omics data. CUBiDA (https://www.mik.uk-erlangen.de/en/ueber-uns/cubida/) is a dedicated core unit that provides comprehensive support for biomedical […]Our new workshop dates for summer 2026 are online. The CUBiDA (Core Unit Bioinformatics, Data Integration and Analysis) team regularly offers a series of bioinformatics workshops and training courses designed to progressively build your data analysis skills for analyzing your omics data. CUBiDA (https://www.mik.uk-erlangen.de/en/ueber-uns/cubida/) is a dedicated core unit that provides comprehensive support for biomedical […]
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15OCT 2025
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Kick-off meeting Jour Fixe “Bioinformatics & Modelling” on October 20, 2025
The kick-off meeting for the new Jour Fixe “Bioinformatics & Modelling” will take place online on 20 October 2025 at 2 p.m. Dr Pooja Gupta will be the scientific head of the Jour Fixe. In addition to Life@FAU members, bioinformatics doctoral students will also participate in the event series. At the first meeting in October, the concept […]
Read more about Kick-off meeting Jour Fixe “Bioinformatics & Modelling” on October 20, 2025
08OCT 2025
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Graduate Centre: New seminars winterterm 2025/2026
The new course programme of the FAU Graduate Center for doctoral students and postdocs is now online. You can view all events here: www.fau.de/graduiertenzentrum/kurse-und-veranstaltungen. Equal opportunity registration until October 19, 2025, midnight via StudOn. Course places will be chosen by lottery from all registrations received during this period (registrations are also possible after October 19). For […]The new course programme of the FAU Graduate Center for doctoral students and postdocs is now online. You can view all events here: www.fau.de/graduiertenzentrum/kurse-und-veranstaltungen. Equal opportunity registration until October 19, 2025, midnight via StudOn. Course places will be chosen by lottery from all registrations received during this period (registrations are also possible after October 19). For […]
Read more about Graduate Centre: New seminars winterterm 2025/2026

Graduate School of Life Sciences (Life@FAU)

Aims

Benefits

News

Bioinformatics Workshops Summer offers

Kick-off meeting Jour Fixe “Bioinformatics & Modelling” on October 20, 2025

Graduate Centre: New seminars winterterm 2025/2026