title: The BREW workshop series: a stimulating experience in PhD education.
abstract: Over recent years, five European PhD programmes have organized a series of 'Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshops'. These workshops address the needs of first-year PhD students and have been designed to combine a maximum of educational impact and scientific stimulation with a minimum of financial and administrative effort. We describe the BREW experience and argue that this type of event constitutes an attractive component of PhD education in computational biology and beyond.
authors.affiliation: Center of Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Postfach 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. robert@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giegerich
authors.forename: Alvis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brazma
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jonassen
authors.forename: Esko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ukkonen
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vingron
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005060:Europe; D023281:Genomics / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*