13 reasons to participate in the Course:

• You need no prior programming experience
• Get over the first hard steps of learning programming in two weeks assisted by experienced TAs and lecturers
• Meet experts in your field of evolutionary biology
• Learn widely used programming languages in evolutionary biology
• Learn how to analyze high-throughput sequencing data
• Learn state of the art tools used in evolutionary biology research
• Pick the brain of the lecturers and speakers who will all be around for several days
• Learn how to design and perform bioinformatics-based projects
• Develop your own 3-days project and strengthen your team work skills
• Come away with a tool kit for performing your own computational analyses
• Establish collaborations for future research projects and stay in contact with the bioinformatics community
• Learn to communicate with computer scientists to develop cutting edge research at the intersection of biology and your informatics department
• Strengthen the competitiveness of your CV