Innoveren in en met de Maatschappij
Vanaf april 2025 biedt het Copernicus Instituut een spannende en innovatieve nieuwe cursus aan: Innoveren in en met de Maatschappij. Innovatieonderzoek richt zich vaak op de markt (bedrijven), of juist de publieke sector (universiteiten en beleid). Maar uit onderzoek blijkt dat het veelal burgers en andere gebruikers zijn die een leidende rol spelen bij het
Perspectives on Information and Society
The main aim of the course is to critically reflect on concepts central to Information Studies in terms of assumptions, limitations, and social and ethical implications. As information is the central notion of Information Studies we start with information. We approach information by using hermeneutics; this perspective highlights the characteristics of human understanding and is
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Learning from patterns in molecular biology data plays an important role in diagnosing disease, discovering new targets for therapy, and more generally in answering biological questions that lead to an improved understanding of biological systems with relevance to human health, industry, biotechnology, and agriculture. This course focuses on methodology for the analysis of high-dimensional data
Modelling Functional Diversity in Crop Production
The last century, agriculture has been characterised by control and specialization: monocrops being grown with intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides. But environmental concerns, disease and pest resistance to pesticides and finite availability of resources call for a change in strategy. Diversity both in terms of utilizing different crop species and in combining different ecology-based
Tools in Molecular Data Analysis
This course aims to develop practical skills in data handling, analysis and visualization for large “omics” data commonly found in contemporary plant research. Two domain-specific projects will be addressed: i) RNA-seq analysis and ii) Microbiome analysis. For each project, after introductory lectures on the topic, students will be trained to handle these specific datasets. Afterwards,