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Winter term 2010: Wednesday  13:10, "gallery" PC room of Department of Plant Experimental Biology, Viničná 5, 2nd floor. The first lecture will be held on October 13.

 

Lectures of winter term 2010:

1. Basics of research work - 13.10. ppt 1, ppt 2
1.1. The character of scientific work in the field of experimental biology
1.2. Observation and experiment - two general approaches
1.3. Scientific institutions and organizations, scientific conferences
1.4. Ethical rules of scientific work
1.5. Financing of the scientific research
1.6. Writing scientific projects and grant proposals, basic rules

2. Helpful hints in the processing of experimental data - 20.10. ppt

2.1. Organization of work, type of data
2.2. Data explorers, correct data handling and saving
2.3. Spreadsheets, statistical software, graph editors
2.4. Processing of structural and sequence data
2.5. Image analysis, graphical software, presentation software

 

3. Scientific literature, online resources at the internet - 27.10 ppt, practical demonstration 3.11. and 10.11.

3.1. Types of scientific reports and their purpose
3.2. Internet sources of information

3.3. How to search for bibliographic
records and full text articles
  
3.3.1. Bibliographic databases accessible at our faculty

   3.3.2. Full text databases accessible at our faculty
  
3.3.
3. Creating your own database of references

3.4. Scientometry - a tool for the evaluation of quality and scientific relevance of  scientific work

 

4. Online information databases in the experimental biology - practical demonstration 24.11., 1.12 and 8.12, DNA sequence, AA sequence, genevestigator file 1, file 2

4.1. Sequence databases - tool of systems biology
4.2. Specialized sequence databases

 

5. Presentation of experimental results - 15.12. ppt, 5.1. ppt

5.1. Bachelor thesis
5.
2. Diploma thesis
5.3. Dissertation thesis
5.
4. Scientific contributions at the conferences and seminars
5.
5. Scientific report/paper

 

Tests for obtaining credits 2010/2011:

Test 1-3, example report of test 1

Test 4, background information for test 4

 

Send the tests to petrasek@ueb.cas.cz.