Experimental Design and Conceptualization
Type of class Seminar
Offered by Medical Neurosciences
Schedule Wednesdays, 3pm, monthly (see 'Sessions' below for details) starting from 25 Nov 2009
Location Humboldt-Graduate-School, Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin
Contact Marietta Zille ()
Target audience MSc and PhD students
ECTS points 0.2 per Session
Learning Outcome
The structure of this course comprises a journal club, in which the lecturer presents a high-impact paper and the current state of his research area, and subsequent group work sessions during which the students have to think about possible continuation experiments/projects based on the papers presented or questions suggested by the lecturer. The lecturer gives feedback as to whether the project designs (i.e. chronology and suitability of suggested experiments to address the scientific question) is reasonable. Preparation material is sent out in advance and the time frame is 180 min for the entire course.
By establishing such a course we aim to contribute to the students’ understanding of how to logically conceptualize and design experiments, apart from the mere knowledge of how techniques work.
Sessions
02.12.2009 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Pauen
Research Area: Philosophy of Mind
Website: http://www.michael-pauen.de/
Location: Humboldt Graduate School, room 220, Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin
Readings: tba
03.02.2010 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Speaker: Christian Rosenmund
Research Area: Molecular and Human Genetics in Synaptic Transmission
Website: http://neuro.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu/?sct=gfaculty&prf=14
Location: Humboldt Graduate School, room 144, Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin
Readings: tba
27.02.2010 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Speaker: John-Dylan Haynes
Research Area: Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals
Website: http://www.bccn-berlin.de/People/haynes
Location: Charité Campus Mitte (“Alte Nervenklinik”, Clinic for Neurology), Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Lecture Hall Level 3, Campus address: Bonhoefer Weg 3
Readings:
* Haynes JD, Rees G, Nat Rev Neurosci, 2006, PMID: 16791142
* Haynes JD et al., PNAS 2005, PMID: 16192359