(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