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Registration open for Visualize your Science spring course!

NDPIA will offer 10 spots for the Visualize Your Science spring course. Register today to secure your spot!

When: March 2nd until May 7th

Registration deadline: February 19th

This course is designed for PhD students and postdocs who want to improve their skills in drawing images/figures for scientific posters, presentations, and publications. The course consists of tutorial videos, home assignments and four scheduled face-to-face feedback sessions online. Students progress from a beginner to an advanced level in visual rhetoric and in use of an illustration software of your choice.

Read more about the course and how to register here »

Registration is open for Uppsala Health Summit 2021

Uppsala Health Summit is a recurring international policy arena for dialogue on challenges for health and healthcare, and how we can overcome them.

This year the theme is Managing Antimicrobial Resistance through Behaviour change and will through workshops and plenum sessions identify existing scalable, evidence-based solutions and discuss obstacles for implementation of policies and programmes.

Read more and register here →

New NDPIA Course in Microbiota and Health


Artist: Ina Schuppe Koistinen, source: inasakvareller.se

When: November 30 – December 3, 2020

Registration deadline: November 6, 2020

Learn about the importance of the microbiota in human health and disease, interactions of the microbiota with the immune system, which methods are used to study microbiomes, and more in this course.

Renowned experts will give lectures on:

  • Tools used to study microbiota and data analysis
  • Microbiota associations with gut, genitourinary tract, mouth, and skin
  • Effects of diet and age on the microbiome
  • Microbiota interactions with drugs
  • Trends for modifying the microbiota
  • Microbiota in farm animals and plants

Get the chance to discuss your research with colleagues and build your national and international scientific network!

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