Mentoring and Career Track Scheme

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Post-doctoral positions are meant for training researchers at the beginning of their professional life with the expectation that they will be able to take the next step in their career. IMBB, in line with international and EU-Life practices, has adopted specific actions to support postdocs during their time in IMBB and towards their future career development whether that will be in academia or beyond. The IMBB mentoring and career track scheme (MCTS) is designed to provide all post docs and junior PIs with:

(1) effective mentoring by a senior current or past (alumni) IMBB member;

(2) training opportunities to develop, in addition to research skills, broad competences that will help them in their future career;

(3) attending lectures from invited speakers on alternative career-paths within biological sciences;

(4) a track scheme to follow whether set-goals are achieved and how career-development is progressing;

(5) an extended list of mentors, in addition to IMBB PIs, including the IMBB alumni members

We are pleased to announce the first IMBB Data Analysis Workshop for Wet-Lab Biologists, which will take place in the mornings of April 27 – May 8 (10:00–12:00 daily).

This is a hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop introducing Python (and R), data analysis, and computational biology — no prior programming experience is required. Whether you are completely new to omics data analysis or simply looking to strengthen your skills, you are very welcome to join.

Workshop outline

Week 1
Mon 27/4/26 Day 1 Orfanoudakis Room Python Fundamentals - Alexandros Pittis

Tue 28/4/26 Day 2 Orfanoudakis Room Plotting & Data Exploration - Alexandros Pittis

Wed 29/4/26 Day 3 Pagiatakis Room Statistics & P-value Logic - Alexandros Pittis

Thu 30/4/26 Day 4 Pagiatakis Room Enrichment & Dimensionality Reduction - Alexandros Pittis

Week 2
Mon 4/5/26 Day 5 Pagiatakis Room Bulk RNA-seq analysis - Christos Andronis / Electra Tsaglioti (Bioinformatics Unit)

Tue 5/5/26 Day 6 Pagiatakis Room Single-cell RNA-seq analysis - Vaso Theodorou / Ethan Baird (Delidakis lab)

Wed 6/5/26 Day 7 Pagiatakis Room ATAC-seq - Orsalia Hazapis (Talianidis lab)

Thu 7/5/26 Day 8 Pagiatakis Room Bring your data - Various Instructors

We aim to keep the workshop interactive, with up to ~40 participants. Priority will be given to participants who can commit to the full duration of the workshop. If demand is high, a fair distribution across labs may be applied. We hope this workshop will provide a relaxed and supportive environment to learn new skills and explore your data. All instructors and participants are also warmly invited to join us for a BBQ on the afternoon of Thursday, April 30 — exact time to be confirmed.

Materials & details: https://github.com/cgenomicslab/imbb-data-analysis

Questions? Please feel free to contact Alexandros Pittis (alexandros.pittis@gmail.com).

Happy Hour Social Events

Starting in April 2026, the IMBB Mentoring Committee is excited to launch Happy Hour social events following the IMBB Colloquia, organized by IMBB PhD students and Postdocs!

Each Happy Hour will take place on the last Friday of every month, right after the IMBB Colloquium seminar.

You are warmly invited to join these informal gatherings to connect and continue both scientific and non-scientific discussions while enjoying pizza and drinks.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The whole process will be overseen by the MCTS Committee which will act as a contact point between post-docs and mentors. The MCTS committee consists of two IMBB group leaders (Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Emmanouil Froudarakis), two post doc representatives (Eva Zacharioudaki, Maria Diamantaki) and two PhD representatives (Maria Kalogeridi, Christos Katsioulas) .

For contacting the MCTS Committee at IMBB send an e-mail to mentoring@imbb.forth.gr. Alternatively you can contact any of the members directly using the contact details below or the secretary (Rodanthi Lasitiotaki).