Doctoral School

The goal of the Doctoral School is to ensure a high-quality study experience, as well as a space to develop professional competences in a cross-disciplinary environment.

Objectives

• To create a one-stop agency to exchange information about ways to develop various competences;
• To provide consultations on research design, data processing and interpretation, writing, publishing strategies and project preparation;
• To organise seminars, workshops and various activities for the development of research competences;
• To foster networking for doctoral candidates and researchers.

MAQC-society webinars

Leaders in the fields of science and bioinformatics will comment on findings and results in cancer genomics and related areas: identification of all types of variants (single nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertion and deletion mutations (Indels), structural variants, copy number changes (CNAs and CNVs)). Information on new reference materials to test and validate bioinformatics processes will be presented, including harmonizsed tumour and normal cell line pairs and cell line admixtures, evaluation and comparison of cancer panels and liquid biopsy tests, reproducible scRNA-sec methods and other exciting areas such as epigenomics. The presentations are related to new research currently being published in Nature Biotechnology, Genome Biology, Cell Genomics and other journals.

Further information and registration

Project preparation

Time	Topic	Contact, registration	Location
By appointment	Preparation of project and grant applications	Ingrīda Kalviņa (ingrida[pnkts]kalvinarsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema Iela, K-203, K-220
Weekdays 8:30–17:15 (Fridays until 16:00)	Processing personal data and related matters	Marina Siņkovska (personu[pnkts]datirsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema Iela, D-100

Data processing and interpretation (consultations)

Consultations

Time	Topic	Contact, registration	Location
By appointment	Machine learning algorithms in processing data with Python	Uldis Doniņš, uldis[pnkts]doninsrsu[pnkts]lv	Online
By appointment	Guidance for the planning and design of clinical-epidemiological research on prevalence, identification of risk factors, the efficacy of interventions, diagnostic accuracy studies and systematic reviews	Sergio Uribe, sergio[pnkts]uribersu[pnkts]lv	20 Dzirciema iela, Rīga, RSU Institute of Dentistry, Room 248 / Online (Zoom)
	Guidance for the design of the data management plan for medical research according to FAIR principles
	Guidance for statistical analysis of data for medical research during the study design stage
	Conducting exploratory data analysis for medical research: data visualization and tables generation
By appointment	Bioinformatics analyses of multi-omics data and integration with clinical, life-style/environmental information	Baiba Vilne, baiba[pnkts]vilnersu[pnkts]lv	Online (Zoom)
By appointment	Quantitative data processing using R	Andris Avotiņš, Eva Petrošina (statistikarsu[pnkts]lv)	23 Kapseļu Iela, Statistics Unit
By appointment	Quantitative data processing using MS Excel	Olga Rajevska, Madara Miķelsone (statistikarsu[pnkts]lv)	23 Kapseļu Iela, Statistics Unit
Fridays 13:00–17:00, by appointment	Statistical processing of quantitative data	Andrejs Ivanovs, Šimons Svirskis, Eva Petrošina, Maksims Mukāns (statistikarsu[pnkts]lv)	23 Kapseļu Iela, Statistics Unit
By appointment	Peer review of statistical reporting in scientific articles	Šimons Svirskis, Andris Avotiņš (statistikarsu[pnkts]lv)	23 Kapseļu Iela, Statistics Unit
By appointment	Quantitative data processing using NVivo	Diāna Kalniņa (statistikarsu[pnkts]lv)	23 Kapseļu Iela, Statistics Unit

Writing and editing (consultations)

Time	Topic	Contact, registration	Location
Fridays 10:00–11:00, by appointment	Editing scientific articles in English	Miervaldis Karulis (valodasrsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema iela, B-407
Wednesdays 16:00–17:00, by appointment	Consultations on the methodological guidelines of collaboration journals of RSU (e.g. Medicine, Acta Chirurgica Latviensis)	Signe Riekstiņa-Pāla, signe[pnkts]riekstina-palarsu[pnkts]lv (bibliotekarsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema iela, G-204.c

Publication and databases (consultations)

Consultations

Time	Topic	Contact, registration	Location
Thursdays 10:00–12:00, by appointment	Intellectual property protection	Justīne Vīķe (justine[pnkts]vikersu[pnkts]lv)	12 Vīlipa Iela, Room 8
By appointment	Expert advice on the quality of article manuscript content	Scientists registered in LZP expert database (dana[pnkts]briedersu[pnkts]lv)	The experts' respective offices
Wednesdays 16:00–17:00, by appointment	Database searches	Signe Riekstiņa-Pāla (signe[pnkts]riekstina-palarsu[pnkts]lv, bibliotekarsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema Iela, G-204.c
Mondays 16:00–17:00 Fridays 14:00–15:00	Using EndNote	Inga Znotiņa (inga[pnkts]znotinarsu[pnkts]lv, bibliotekarsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema Iela, G-204.c
Tuesdays, Thursdays 16:00–17:00	Patent information searches	Signe Riekstiņa-Pāla (signe[pnkts]riekstina-palarsu[pnkts]lv, bibliotekarsu[pnkts]lv)	16 Dzirciema Iela, G-204.c

Networking Events

Event	Date	Topic	Contact, registration	Language	Location
Research Breakfast	6 Jan	Research data management	Justīne Vīķe	Latvian/English	Online

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