Syllabus of the lecture course Practical basics of scientific work (B130P16)

The course gives information on the basics of scientific practice in modern experimental biology. It is designed for students 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), including bachelor and master thesies. to thesis  preparation will be discussed in detail.

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

Teacher: Petrášek, Jan

petrasek@ueb.cas.cz

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Winter term 2022/23:

Thursday, 16:30, Vinicna 5, 2nd floor, seminar room of the Department of Experimental Plant Biology (room "KFR").

Lectures of winter term 2022/23:

1. Basics of research work. -  1.1, 1.2, 1.3-1.6

1.1. The character of scientific work in the field of experimental biology - 6.10.
1.2. Observation and experiment - two general approaches - 13.10.

1.3. Scientific institutions and organizations, scientific conferences - 20.10.
1.4. Ethical rules of scientific work - 20.10.
1.5. Financing of the scientific research - 27.10.
1.6. Writing scientific projects and grant proposals, basic rules - 27.10 and 3.11