COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To familiarize students with the development of scientific research in biology through the study of research and researchers who have received the Nobel Prize. Students will be introduced to the basics of research and experimental design throughout history.
COURSE CONTENT:
An important component of this course is teamwork in the preparation of seminar papers. Teams of 4 students will cover one topic per cycle in a total of 4 cycles, each group will cover one Nobel Prize. Through seminars, students will practice responsibility, cooperation skills, as well as presentation skills, and will become familiar with the basics of scientific research and its development over the past 2 centuries. In order to better understand the issues of scientific research, at the end, students will conduct a final seminar in groups where they will conduct an imaginary research that they must imaginatively design, carry out, collect and process the results, discuss them and present all of this at the seminar.
LECTURES
1) Introduction to scientific theory
2) History of the Nobel Prizes
3)-5) Development of scientific research methodology in biology
6)-8) Fundamentals of research work: experimental design throughout history
9)-10) Fundamentals of teamwork in scientific research
11)-12) Evaluation of scientific results
13)-15) Principles of presenting scientific research results
SEMINARS
- 4 cycles of processing the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine + 1 seminar on performing imaginary scientific research::
a. 1901-1930.
b. 1931-1960.
c. 1961-1990.
d. 1991-present
e. performance of imaginary research and its presentation
- Students will work in teams of 4 students, teams change in each cycle
- Students have 2 weeks to prepare a seminar consisting of the following components (maximum presentation duration is 1 hour):
a. presentation of the biographies of Nobel laureates
b. presentation of the discovery and historical development of research to the discovery and its importance in the present time
c. presentation of the discovery - method chosen by the team: play, experiment, poster
- For the purposes of imaginary research, students will, with the guidance of assistants, choose an interesting topic, explain the current knowledge in that area and the goal of the research, develop a methodology and method of data processing, "obtain" the result and discuss everything in the form of a PP presentation at the last seminar within this course.
Writing a seminar paper requires additional extracurricular engagement of students: team meetings, literature review, presentation preparation, etc.
Upon completion of team work ? students complete an anonymous survey about the work of each colleague in the team as well as group work, survey responses are distributed to each student upon completion of the course.
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The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige, Burton Feldman, Arcade, 2000.
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Nobel prizes and nature's suprises, Erling Norrby, World Scientific Publishing, 2013.
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Experimental Design for the Life Sciences, Graeme D Ruxton and Nick Colegrave, Oxford University Press, 2003.
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