Backed by its research facilities and scientists, VIB offers a range of training courses in the life sciences for all (VIB and non-VIB!) doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
The driving force for taking off now with this open cross-disciplinary training course is that in this 21st century it is our believe that it is no longer sufficient to stay in your lab and to stick to your discipline(s) of interest to become a topnotch scientist.
Rather you have to combine wet-lab activities with professional training in some additional scientific and so-called parascientific disciplines, and as such get a multi-disciplinary scholarship.
To secure that the VRTC curriculum creates added value for a broad population of researchers its content is well-balanced and has the flexibility to be personalized.
In practice, each individual researcher can select particularly what fits best with its future ambitions, either a research or management career in academia, industry or at government.
Bioinformatics is an important element in the course curriculum. Those courses are organized by BITS, the VIB BioInformatics Training and Service facility.
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Advisory board
The scientific advisory board guarantees the scientific quality of the VIB Research Training Course. They brainstorm twice a year on challenging scientific evolutions and in fact on how these can be implemented in future VRTC curricula.
Advisory Board members
Tom Beeckman, UGent/VIB
Bassem Hassan, K.U.Leuven/VIB
Joost Schymkowitz and Frederic Rousseau, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/VIB
Vincent Timmerman, University of Antwerp/VIB
VRTC Coordinator
Geert Van Minnebruggen, Integration Manager, VIB