On-line short course
On-line openGUTS short course. Roman
Ashauer and Tjalling Jager have provided an on-line half-day
short course on the openGUTS software at the virtual SETAC Europe in
May 2020. Since SETAC was virtual that year, we also
had the course on-line, with a mixture of on-demand
lectures, homework exercises, and plenary video sessions.
Tjalling has turned this material into a publicly-available
on-line short course at Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/c/openguts.
This version does not include interaction with the
instructors (so it is completely DIY), but we have added
some quizzes to test your skills with openGUTS. Note that
this course is not free, though it is cheap, and you can
simply obtain a no-questions-asked refund from Leanpub if
you think the course was not worth its price.
There are plans for another short course at SETAC Europe in
May 2021. More information to follow; see also the
SETAC2021 training page.
Dedicated openGUTS course
Regular GUTS courses. Since
the release of the first version of openGUTS, we have had
the intention to provide a regular, commercial course on
using GUTS in risk assessment of plant protection products.
This course should apply the openGUTS standalone software,
and the Matlab version as well, if there is a specific
interest. So far, however, our intentions have been thwarted
by various issues (a.o., job changes and the corona crisis),
and, we must admit, interest in such a course has not been
overwhelming. Therefore, at the moment, these ideas are on
hold. We have been contemplating various formats, such as an
open course on a teaching location (in the Netherlands),
non-open courses on-site (e.g., at a regular authorities or
companies premises), or (more recently) an on-line
interactive course.
Realistically, our possibilities to provide complete courses
in 2021 will be very limited, both due to the corona
situation and due to other obligations. However, we do love
to hear about your course wishes! If you are interested in
an openGUTS course, please contact Tjalling Jager
(DEBtox Research) by email (also see email address at the
bottom of this page), and tell us what you would like to see
in terms of courses. Given sufficient interest, we'll pick
this up again, and keep you posted if we have more concrete
plans.
Other interesting courses and events
- We will organise the Summerschool on TKTD modelling
again in 2021, likely in a different format to the
previous runs, and most likely in late autumn. Information
on (previous runs of) this course. (there was
no course in 2020 due to the corona situation)
- In July 2021, you have the opportunity to join the
PREDITOX school in Lyon, France. This is a course on
modelling and statistics for ecotoxicologists, focussing
on Bayesian inference. Download
the 2021 flyer. Modelling with GUTS is included in
the program.
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