(Česká verze MB130P16)

Syllabus of the lecture course Practical basics of scientific work (B130P16E)

 

The course gives information on the basics of scientific practice in modern experimental biology. It is devoted to students in the second and third year that intend to study experimental biology specializations. The basics of research practice, planning of experiments, methods of their evaluation, principles of laboratory work, guidelines for writing protocols and ethical rules will be described in detail. Participants will be informed about useful techniques of mining in scientific databases and handling with these data as well as about scientific contribution preparation (poster and presentation, scientific paper). Practical demonstrations of techniques useful for bachelor and diploma work writing will be strongly emphasized.
Requirements for getting credits:
Exercises on the searching, processing and presentation of bibliographic and scientometric data, preparation of the scientific manuscript.

Guaranteed by: 130

State: taught

Winter term: 0/2 C (hours/week)

Credits: 2

Valid from: from 2006

Capacity: 12-15

Teacher: Petrášek, Jan

petrasek@ueb.cas.cz

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Winter term 2021/22:

Thursday 16:30, seminar room BLU, Viničná 5, ground floor, right from the entrance.

 

Lectures of winter term 2021/22:

1. Basics of research work.
1.1. The character of scientific work in the field of experimental biology
- 7.10. - lecture in pptx
1.2. Observation and experiment - two general approaches
1.3. Scientific institutions and organizations, scientific conferences - 14.10. and 28.10 -
lecture in pptx
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. Processing of experimental data - 4.11. -  lecture in pptx

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 - lectures in pptx 11.11., 18.11. and 25.11.

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 - 2.12.

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

 

5. Presentation of experimental results - 9.12. - lecture in pptx

5.1. Bachelor thesis
5.
2. Diploma thesis
5.3. Dissertation thesis
5.
4. Scientific contributions at the conferences and seminars - 17.12., lecture recording
5.
5. Scientific report/paper

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Tasks for obtaining credits 2021/22:

Tasks 1-4example report of task 1

Task 5background information for task 5, excel sheet with values

 

Send to petrasek@ueb.cas.cz.

 

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