Lectures of winter term 2018/19:

1. Basics of research work. Lectures 11.10., 25.10 and 1.11.
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 1.11.

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, 8.11., 15.11. and 22.11

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 29.11, DNA sequences, AA sequences, 6.12.

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

 

5. Presentation of experimental results, lectures 13.12., 20.12.

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

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Tasks for obtaining credits 2018/19:

Tasks 1-4, example report of task 1

Task 5, background information for task 5

 

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