To be a Scientist: Perspectives and Essential Skills
| Framing the Critical Concepts in Modern Biology: A Historical Perspective for Spring 2013 | |
|---|---|
| Course code | 3024410 |
| Credits | three ( lectures: 3 hr per week) |
| Organizer | Dr. Tien-Hsien Chang |
| Classes given in | Lectures, student presentations, and group discussions(in English) |
| Evaluation | Assignement, presentation and report |
| Reference | 1. Stuart Firestein(2012) Ignorance: How It Drives Science 2. W. I. B. Beveridge (1957) The Art of Scientific Investigation. |
| Time | 1:30‐4:20 pm, every Thursday |
| Place | 1Fl Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica |
| Date | Tentative Topics (subject to change) | |
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| pre‐talk | 1/28 09:30‐11:30 |
How to write a fundable proposal‐I |
| pre‐talk | 1/31 09:30‐11:30 |
How to write a fundable proposal‐II |
| 3. | 02/21 | Introduction and lectures on essential skills |
| 4. | 02/28 | peaceful memorial day(Break) |
| 5. | 03/07 | Lectures on essential skills (continued) |
| 6. | 03/14 | Lectures on essential skills (continued) |
| 7. | 03/21 | Lectures on essential skills (continued) |
| 8. | 03/28 | Lectures on proposal writing and dissection of model proposals |
| 9. | 04/04 | Children's Day(Break) |
| 10. | 04/11 | Group discussion of formulating specific aims |
| 11. | 04/18 | Mid‐Term Exam |
| 12. | 04/25 | Presentation of specific aims and group discussions |
| 13. | 05/02 | Student presentation of selected scientists and their key experiments |
| 14. | 05/09 | Student presentation of selected scientists and their key experiments |
| 15. | 05/16 | Student presentation of selected scientists and their key experiments |
| 16. | 05/23 | Student presentation of selected scientists and their key experiments Dialogues with invited scientists on their career paths |
| 17. | 05/30 | Dialogues with invited scientists on their career paths |
| 18. | 06/06 | Final Term |