TTN Workshop​

Once a year, MHeNs organises a Topics in Translational Neuroscience (TTN) workshop. TTN workshops are one-day courses for PhD candidates at MHeNs.

This year’s workshop is on “science communication and data presentation”. We chose these two topics because they are of interest for PhD students of all MHeNs divisions and both topics are connected. This year, a variety of experts agreed to give presentations and workshops. Their expertise includes, for example, various programmes to present data or how to communicate science to lay audience.

This led to an attractive programme. The day includes plenary sessions with broad introductions as well as two time slots with interactive parallel sessions.

Programme

09.00 Welcome and introduction - Marjan Drukker

09.05 Data Presentation Workshops:

Four five-minute plenary pitches (Graphpad, Python, R, MRI), followed by parallel workshops:

• Graphpad - Melissa Schepers

• Making your data shine: manuscript-ready and reviewer-proof visualizations in R - Daniel Kreiter

• Data visualization in Python - Ryszard Auksztulewicz

• Visualizing the mesoscopic brain: Theory and practice for making figures that reveal the complex geometry of the human brain - Furak Gulban

10.35 Coffee with cake

11.00 Data presentation - Friederike Ehrhart

11.45 Share your research! From social media to citizen science - Gera Nagelbout

12.30 Wrap up workshops Data Presentation

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Science Communication Workshops:

• How to transform your scientific paper into a newspaper article - Mark van der Linde

• Writing for varied audiences - May Lee

• Effective communication in an age of distraction - Donna Carroll

15.15 Wrap up workshops Science Communication

15.45 Closure

Introducing The landscape of Science Communication in the Netherlands - Eileen Daniels

16.15 Drinks including members of SciCom NL

Location

Jan van Eyck Academy

Academieplein 1,

6211 KM

Maastricht, The Netherlands