Registration

Registration is open until 15 April 2018, 24:00GMT! Read the text below.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

Cost

  • Academic: 8500 SEK (~840 euro) (Includes participation in all official activities and events, course materials, breakfast, lunch and accommodations)
  • Non-academic: Participants from outside of academia should contact us for a fee quote.

The fee does not include travel costs.

Entry requirements

The school is aimed at both Ph.D. students and researchers within Life Sciences who are already using R for basic bioinformatics analyses and who would like to start using R at a more advanced level. In order for you and other participants to benefit the most, you should consider yourself eligible if you are comfortable with reading and transforming data, installing and using third-party packages and plotting using standard R graphics.

We offer places for participants from all over the world, but there is a number of places reserved for participants from Sweden.

Selection criteria

The school can accommodate 45 participants. election criteria include correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the course as well as gender and geographical balance.

Important dates

  • 17.03.2018 – Application open
  • 15.04.2018, 24:00GMT – Application deadline
  • 25.04.2018 – Notification of acceptance/decline
  • 10.06.2018 – Arrival and welcome reception in Visby.
  • 11-20.06.2018 – Classes and Workshops.
  • 21.06.2018 – Farewell and departure.

We provide accomodation 10-21 June.

Accommodation

All participants will be accomodated in central Visby, within a walking distance to the school site. We have booked two different places: Mullbärsgården and Visby Vandrarhem. Both places offer a number of two-bed rooms and we have two three-bed rooms. Some rooms are a part of a bigger appartment. You will be accomodated in a room based on your preferences and on the order in which you applied for the school. Both places are booked exclusively for us and provide breakfast buffé.

Food

Breakfast, lunch and refreshments are included in the fee. The fee also includes reception with refreshments on June 10 as well as the official course dinner on June 16.

Registration form

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED