Please read the individual course descriptions for registration modalities and access to course materials. Please note:
– Events with no dates or “tba” have no schedule announced for the moment … If a semester is indicated, the course will be available again soon …
– PhD candidates are also strongly encouraged to participate in local journal clubs and seminar series
– Information on credit validation and more course offers can be found HERE
EPFL-EDNE courses: LNDS PhD students can basically attend most courses of the EPFL PhD program in neuroscience (EDNE). To inquire about free spots in classes, please first write to the EDNE coordinator (edne@epfl.ch) from your work mail address (with the LN coordinator in copy). You will then receive a link towards the online registration platform of EPFL (have a scan of your PhD student card ready to attach if needed). Participation to EPFL courses is free for LNDS candidates.
Once you successfully finished a course, please send the EPFL credit transcript from IS-Academia (“Statement of results” > “Auditor plan” to the LNDS coordinator for credit validation .
BMI-EPFL Symposium: Neuromics approaches to Development & Disease (June 24-25, 2025) – course option for 1 ECTS –
This symposium will cover genetic, epigenetic, molecular and cellular aspects of the nervous system, including its development and age-related diseases. Our focus will be the integration of extensive multimodal datasets, facilitating the construction of accurate functional models of the healthy and diseased brain. The meeting is destined to ignite new partnerships and to blend diverse research domains to enable translational breakthroughs.
LNDS students who want to participate (symposium plus post-symposium assessment work) please write to the EDNE coordinator (edne@epfl.ch) from your work mail address (with the LN coordinator in copy). You will then receive a link towards the online registration platform of EPFL (have a scan of your PhD student card ready to be attached). The participation fees for LNDS will be covered by the program given the student chooses the “course option” of the symposium 1 ECTS.
Students please note that in case of no-show or if the assessment task is not completed, the symposium fee will be claimed back from you …
Other EPFL PhD courses: Please contact the LNDS coordinator to ask for credit validation before choosing a given course, and to be re-directed to the EPFL program coordinator in charge. If your wish can be granted, please fill the “external auditor form” and send it to “cours-edoc@epfl.ch” together with a scan of your PhD student card.
The CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale) offers a range of courses on research-related soft skills (e.g. scientific writing). Moreover, several doctoral programs provide courses on statistics, research and analysis methods, for example:
- Romandie Psychology program (with many statistics courses open to non-psychologists)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Microbiology
- StarOmics
Each LNDS student can participate to these courses, but you need to create a CUSO login for registration. Please provide the LNDS coordinator with your course certificate and a course link for credit validation.
Workshop and courses offers open to doctoral candidates from other programs; please contact LNDS coodinator. Several stats workshops …