Writing course at Karolinska Institutet 10-13 March 2025

This week I am teaching at Karolinska in the Applied Biomedical Communication and Professional Development course.  This is a popular course — 60 masters students again this year. It covers scientific writing, oral presentation skills, and career planning. 

In my workshop this week, the students learn to apply linguistic strategies for improved readability and flow in scientific manuscripts. Specifically, I cover:

  • Creating a structure: introducing the CARS template
  • What makes a text easy or hard to read? The top 3 essentials
  • How long is a too long sentence?
  • Top-heavy sentences: why English hates them
  • Creating flow: the concept of topic-stress
  • The topic sentence and why every paragraph wants one
  • How to give feedback and why we do it

 

ACA Video Library selects my contribution

My video How to Set up Protein Crystallization Experimentshas been selected for inclusion in the American Crystallographic Association’s library. To my delight, I received a prize for this. Thank you, thank you. Spread the word about this new website resource and encourage your colleagues and friends to submit their videos as well. Here is the list of topics they are interested in. Why not send them something for their spring contest?

Advanced Methods in Macromolecular Crystallization, FEBS course 9-15 June 2024

Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

This laboratory-intensive workshop has been running for 20 years. I will be lecturing on recognizing drop phenomena (and what to do with them) as well as “Crystallization Strategies for the Desperate”. Deadline for application is 10 April. Read more here.

SEACOAST 29 Jan – 7 Feb 2024

SEACOAST is back again after a long hiatus due to Covid. The last one was in 2020.

This is a collaborative X-ray crystallography workshop between King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi (KMUTT) Thailand, and CCP4 with the possibility to collect your data at Diamond Light Source (UK). CryoEM and neutron diffraction will also be covered.

Read more and sign up before 15 Dec 2023.

https://seacoast.kmutt.ac.th/2024/

Crystallization Workshop, University of Tromsö, 4-8 December 2023

The C13 Biocat-sponsored course will be held again this year—this time in December. This is your chance to learn not only about protein crystallization, but to see the northern lights as well. The mornings are spent in lectures and followed by full afternoons of crystallization lab work.

Read more here:

https://biocat.no/activities/c13-crystallisation-of-biological-macromolecules/

C13 Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules

Venue: University of Tromsö, Norway

Dates: 29 August to 2 September 2022

This is one of the courses organized by BioCat, Norwegian Graduate School in Biocatalysis. 10 hours of lectures and 30 hours of hands-on laboratory exercises. 3 HCTS. I will be teaching on Monday and Tuesday. Register through the host university, University of Tromsö.

More information here.