CCBIO have received funding from NFR and SIU for an INTPART program, where students’ education and exchange is promoted through collaboration between CCBIO and the Boston based Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School. Elisabeth Wik is coordinating the program. Several CCBIO-INTPART seminars and courses will take place the coming years, and CCBIO is happy to be inviting you to the first seminar in this series on 13–14 December – a two-day seminar in scientific writing – with valuable input in the program for both students, postdocs and professors.
The seminar is open (requires registration), free of charge, and includes lunch both days.
Time: 13–14 December.
Venue: Birkhaugsalen, Sentralblokken, 3rd floor, Haukeland University Hospital.
Deadline for registration: 30 November.
Christine Møller, an experienced lecturer in medical and scientific writing and assistant editor of APMIS (Acta Pathologica Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica), will take us through a mix of presentations on ‘how to improve your writing’, with some practical exercises.
Randy Watnick, associate professor at the Vascular Biology Program, Harvard Medical School, contributes to the seminar.
The program will also include topics like ‘clear writing’, punctuation and comma exercises, ‘improving your abstract’ and tips for the cover letter.