TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
School of Graduate Studies
Biomedical Research Professional Development
CRN: 25566 IBST 605
Credit Hour: 1
Notice: !!!Class on October 20/27 moved to Nov 3/11th.!!!
CLASS SESSIONS:
Class Days: September 8 ~ December 15, 2015
Every Other Tuesday
Class Start Time: 4:00 pm
Class End Time: 5:00 pm
Class Location: Alkek building, Room 1114F
Instructor:
Name: Yubin Zhou, M.B., Ph.D.
Phone: 713-677-7483
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm.
The 2015-2016 TAMHSC academic calendars can be found at:
http://www.tamhsc.edu/calendar/academic/
Course Description:
The course is designed to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students to improve their professional presentation skills, which includes but not limits to public speaking, presentation time controlling, question handling and meeting monitoring et al. The immediate goal is to help students to prepare for their committee meetings and to pass their qualifying exams. Eventually, the students will benefit from the course for many ways including future job interviews, career development et al.
PREREQUISITES: none.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
The course is mandatory for the graduate students who have not passed their qualifying exams. The students who have passed their qualifying exams are encouraged to continue to take the course, but it is optional.
Course learning Objectives:
Course Format:
Special Topics in Biomedical Research course integrates three major components:
1. Preparation of CV and interview skills
2. How to write a winning proposal
3. How to prepare for your committee meeting
During the course, each student will be given several writing assignments, potential opportunities to present your proposal, and being questioned during/after presentation by other graduate students or the course professor. The students are required to consider the following issues to achieve the course goal: 1) how to present a scientific topic with a limited time; 2) how to control a presentation rhythm; 3) how to deliver his/her messages to the audience clearly and efficiently; 4) how to answer the questions from audience; 5) how to polish your slides to make them professional and impressive. In this semester, we will encourage all the presenters to present your own research projects.
Assessment and Grading Policy
1. A class signing sheet is provided during the class. Each student is required and responsible for the sign up.
2. Each student is allowed to have up to TWO absences of the class with reasonable explanations during the whole semester. The requirement for any additional absence has to be approved by the class professor.
3. Three or more absences of the class (unless approved by the class professor) will result in the failure of the class. A report of the class failure will be sent to the student’s PI as well as IBT graduate advisor.
The course is graded for S (satisfaction) or F (failure). The students will be given S if the above rules are followed. Otherwise, F will be given.
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Course Syllabus (Sep 8 ~ Dec 15, 2015)
- 1. How to prepare for a typical R01 type grant application
- 2. This semester, we will emphasize more on teamwork spirit. The class will be divided into 5 groups (5-6 presenters/group) to cover a research topic or your writing assignments. Each group will have a coordinator, two-three presenters to deliver the talk, and two-three contributors to make the slides. It is up to your choice to conceive the research topic, collect the related literatures/data and synthesize them into a 45-min seminar.
- 3. Writing assignments:
- • CV/resume and Biosketch (NIH style)
- • Specific Aims (One page, NIH style)
- • Significance (One-two page, on research topic or ongoing project)
- • Innovation (One page, on research topic or ongoing project)
| Date | TOPICS | Presenters | ||
| 09/08/15 | Overview of research grant application | Instructor | ||
| 09/15/15 | Writing assignment: CV/Resume/Biosketch | Due on 09/22 | ||
| 09/22/15 | Presentation Group 1 | Group I | ||
| 09/29/15 | Writing assignment: Specific Aims | Due on 10/06 | ||
| 10/06/15 | How to formulate Specific Aims | Instructor | ||
| 10/13/15 | Writing assignment: Significance | Due on 10/20 | ||
| 10/20/15 | Writing assignment: Innovation | Instructor | ||
| 10/27/15 | MOVED to 11/10/2015 | Due on 11/03 | ||
| 11/03/15 | Presentation Group 2 | Group II | ||
| 11/10/15 |
| Due on 11/17 | ||
| 11/17/15 | Presentation Group 3 | Group III | ||
| 11/24/15 | Writing assignment: Revised SAs | Due on 12/01 | ||
| 12/01/15 | Presentation Group 4 | Group IV | ||
| 12/08/15 | Writing assignment: Revised Significance/Innovation | Due on 12/15 | ||
| 12/15/15 | Presentation Group 5 | Group V |
Class attendance is only required for dates highlighted in red.
You will have
2 weeks to work on the writing assignments and
3-4 weeks to prepare for your group presentation.
The group presentation requires your active participation and collaboration among all group members. Each group can organize the presentation in any creative way you like or agree upon. It gives each of you the opportunity to work as a team, which is most valued in any academic and industrial environment nowadays.
Examples of topics to be presented:
- 1. Genome editing/modification techniques; pros and cons of various techniques (zinc finger vs TALEN vs CRISPR/Cas9 etc; examples)
- 2. How to probe protei-ligand interaction with biochemical and biophysical approaches (examples)
- 3. Slides to be used in your qualifying exams
- 4. Your fellowship proposals and reviewers’ comments
(how to address the concerns raised by reviewers)
- 5. Cell-based high-throughput screening platforms and data analysis
- 6. Next-generation sequencing and its applications/data analysis
- 7. Animal and patient-derived models of cancer; pros and cons.
- 8. New techniques or breakthroughs in your field (what leads to the groundbreaking discovery?)
TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
School of Graduate Studies
Biomedical Research Professional Development
CRN: 25566 IBST 605
Credit Hour: 1
CLASS SESSIONS:
Class Days: September 5 ~ December 12, 2014
Every Friday (Except for November 28 Monday after Thanksgiving;
December 15 Monday 4-5 pm)
Class Start Time: 3:00 pm
Class End Time: 4:00 pm
Class Location: Alkek building, Room 1114F (classroom; to be confirmed)
Instructor:
Name: Yubin Zhou, M.B., Ph.D.
Phone: 713-677-7483
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm.
Prior to your presentation, you are encouraged to discuss your presentation with the instructor to improve and polish your slides. Please make an appointment one week in advance by signing up the time-slot sheet outside RM 928.
The 2014-2015 TAMHSC academic calendars can be found at:
http://www.tamhsc.edu/calendar/academic/
Course Description:
The course is designed to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students to improve their professional presentation skills, which includes but not limits to public speaking, presentation time controlling, question handling and meeting monitoring et al. The immediate goal is to help students to prepare for their committee meetings and to pass their qualifying exams. Eventually, the students will benefit from the course for many ways including future job interviews, career development et al.
PREREQUISITES: none.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
The course is mandatory for the graduate students who have not passed their qualifying exams. The students who have passed their qualifying exams are encouraged to continue to take the course, but it is optional.
Course learning Objectives:
Course Format:
Special Topics in Biomedical Research course integrates three major components:
1. Presentation hosting: introducing the speaker, monitoring time.
2. Power-point slide presentation: 20-minute presentation.
3. Question/discussion: group discussion.
At the end of the course, each student should be given at least one opportunity to practice a presentation, host a presentation, and being questioned during/after presentation by other graduate students or the course professor. The students are required to consider the following issues to achieve the course goal: 1) how to present a scientific topic with a limited time; 2) how to control a presentation rhythm; 3) how to deliver his/her messages to the audience clearly and efficiently; 4) how to answer the questions from audience; 5) how to polish your slides to make them professional and impressive. In this semester, we will encourage all the presenters to present your own research projects.
Assessment and Grading Policy
1. A class signing sheet is provided during the class. Each student is required and responsible for the sign up.
2. Each student is allowed to have up to TWO absences of the class with reasonable explanations during the whole semester. The requirement for any additional absence has to be approved by the class professor.
3. Three or more absences of the class (unless approved by the class professor) will result in the failure of the class. A report of the class failure will be sent to the student’s PI as well as IBT graduate advisor.
4. Each student has one opportunity to give a presentation with a limited time and to host a speaker, which includes introducing the speaker, monitoring time and asking at least one question.
The course is graded for S (satisfaction) or F (failure). The students will be given S if the above rules are followed. Otherwise, F will be given.
Course Schedule (updated on August 28)
| Date (Friday 3-4 pm) | Presenter |
| 9/5/2014 with general announcement | An, Lei |
| Aounallah, Nacer | |
| 9/12/14 | Arora, Srishtee |
| Chen, Ying-Shiuan | |
| 9/19/14 | Dai, Yuan |
| Fang, Shaohai | |
| 9/26/14 | Fu, Chuntang |
| He, Lian | |
| 10/3/14 | Jaramillo, Ana Maria |
| Jing, Ji | |
| 10/10/14 | Johnson, Gavin S |
| Lee, Minjung | |
| 10/17/14 | Li, Can |
| Li, Wenjiao | |
| 10/24/14 | Liang, Xiaowen |
| Liang, Yi | |
| 10/31/14 | Liu, Junchen |
| Liu, Yang | |
| 11/7/14 | Liu, Yong-Hong |
| Perkins, Ashley L | |
| 11/14/14 | Powell, Reid Trenton |
| Ravirajan, Dharmanand | |
| 11/21/14 | Shin, Hanna |
| Tan, Peng | |
| 12/5/14 | Thomas, Sheila Esther |
| Xu, Yixiang | |
| 12/12/14 | Yang, Tingli |
| Yin, Chunhui | |
| 12/15/2014 (exception: 4-5 pm; Monday) | Yue, Fei |
| Zhang, Yifan |
TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
School of Graduate Studies
Biomedical Research Professional Development
CRN: 3076
Credit Hour: 1
CLASS SESSIONS:
Class Days: August 26 ~ December 13, 2013
Every Monday (Except for September 2 Labor Day)
Class Start Time: 4:00 pm
Class End Time: 5:00 pm
Class Location: Alkek building, Room 1114F (classroom)
Instructor:
Name: Yubin Zhou, M.B., Ph.D.
Phone: 713-677-7483
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm.
Prior to your presentation, you are encouraged to discuss your presentation with the instructor to improve and polish your slides. Please make an appointment one week in advance by signing up the time-slot sheet outside RM 928.
The 2013-2014 TAMHSC academic calendars can be found at:
http://www.tamhsc.edu/calendar/academic/
Course Description:
The course is designed to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students to improve their professional presentation skills, which includes but not limits to public speaking, presentation time controlling, question handling and meeting monitoring et al. The immediate goal is to help students to prepare for their committee meetings and to pass their qualifying exams. Eventually, the students will benefit from the course for many ways including future job interviews, career development et al.
PREREQUISITES: none.
COURSE RequiREMENTs:
The course is mandatory for the graduate students who have not passed their qualifying exams. The students who have passed their qualifying exams are encouraged to continue to take the course, but it is optional.
Course learning Objectives:
Course Format:
Special Topics in Biomedical Research course integrates three major components:
1. Presentation hosting: introducing the speaker, monitoring time.
2. Power-point slide presentation: 20-minute presentation.
3. Question/discussion: group discussion.
At the end of the course, each student should be given at least one opportunity to practice a presentation, host a presentation, and being questioned during/after presentation by other graduate students or the course professor. The students are required to consider the following issues to achieve the course goal: 1) how to present a scientific topic with a limited time; 2) how to control a presentation rhythm; 3) how to deliver his/her messages to the audience clearly and efficiently; 4) how to answer the questions from audience.
Assessment and Grading Policy
1. A class signing sheet is provided during the class. Each student is required and responsible for the sign up.
2. Each student is allowed to have up to TWO absences of the class with reasonable explanations during the whole semester. The requirement for any additional absence has to be approved by the class professor.
3. Three or more absences of the class (unless approved by the class professor) will result in the failure of the class. A report of the class failure will be sent to the student’s PI as well as IBT graduate advisor.
4. Each student has one opportunity to give a presentation with a limited time and to host a speaker, which includes introducing the speaker, monitoring time and asking at least one question.
The course is graded for S (satisfaction) or F (failure). The students will be given S if the above rules are followed. Otherwise, F will be given.
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Presenter(s) | Date (Monday; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm) |
| Introduction/ Yubin, Zhou | 26-Aug-13 |
| Labor Day | 2-Sep-13 |
| An, Lei/ Arora, Srishtee | 9-Sep-13 |
| Cao, Jin/ Cheng, Yating | 16-Sep-13 |
| Choi, Hyun Ho/ Dai, Yuan | 23-Sep-13 |
| Fu, Chuntang/ Jaramillo, Ana Maria | 30-Sep-13 |
| He, Lian/ Jing, Ji | 7-Oct-13 |
| Li, Can/ Li, Wenjiao | 14-Oct-13 |
| Liang, Xiaowen/ Liang, Yi | 21-Oct-13 |
| Liu, Junchen/ Liu, Yonghong | 28-Oct-13 |
| Perkins, Ashley/ Powell, Reid | 4-Nov-13 |
| Ravirajan, Dharmanand/ Shin, Hanna | 11-Nov-13 |
| Tan, Peng/ Thomas, Sheila | 18-Nov-13 |
| Xiao, Yang/ Xu, Yixiang | 25-Nov-13 |
| Yang, Tingli/ Yin, Chunhui | 2-Dec-13 |
| Yue, Fei/ Yue, Xiaojing | 9-Dec-13 |
| Zeng, Li/ Zhang, Yifan | 13-Dec-13 |