Workshop on experimental strategy in cellular and molecular biology

Teacher(s)

Bertrand Luc; Kienlen-Campard Pascal (coordinator);

Language

French
> English-friendly

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

Some experimental strategies, based on a well-defined system, and that gave rise to major breakthroughs in cellular and molecular biology are exposed and discussed. The key experiments will are detailed. Students (in small groups) further elaborate experimental strategies for specific problems: -first, the teacher proposes selected problems in the field of molecular and cellular biology and provides the students with useful informations to elaborate an experimental strategy; -the students propose experimental models and approaches that need to be validated by the teacher; -these experimental approaches are tested and the results obtained are analysed and discussed in the light of published work. -finally, the students present the result of their work to their colleagues and teachers.

Content

All relevant course descriptions are provided on the WSBIM1303 course link

Teaching methods

The activity takes place in workshops, supervised by one of the course co-teachers. During this workshop, the student will be asked to formulate a research question, to carry out bibliographical research and personal work allowing to gradually translate this question into a research project. The research project will be written individually according to well-defined rules.

Evaluation methods

The assessment will focus on the skills acquired during the workshop (A), the quality of the written research project (B) and its defence before the examination board (C). The final mark is the weighted average of the marks obtained for the three parts (A,B,C)

Other information

Necessary background: basic knowledge in biochemistry, cell biology, cell physiology, molecular biology and genetics. This course can be complemented by a presentation of methods (e.g. SBIM2111: Methodology of Cellular and Molecular Biology), by a tutorial on in-depth questions in cellular biology (e.g. BICL3245: Special Questions in Cellular Biology) and in molecular biology (e.g. DBCM3001: Tutorial in Molecular Biology) Assessment method: The assessment will focus on the quality of the presentation of the experimental approach, the analysis of the results obtained and their critical comparison with the literature.

Online resources

Resources available on the moodle site of the course .

Faculty or entity

SBIM