Mediator: Michel Morange (ENS, Centre Cavailles d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences)
Duration: 1h30, every 2 weeks, first session 26/10 at 9:00
The course is intended to evolve the students' ability to integrate information from science, in the context of philosophy and history through the examination of specific episodes in current science and the history of science.
The students will be guided in readings of classical articles to strengthen their critical thinking skills and scientific literacy in the various interfaces of Biology with Math, Physics, Chemistry and Medicine.
Mediators: François Taddei (INSERM, Paris Descartes), Samuel Bottani (University Paris Diderot), Ariel Lindner (Paris Descartes, INSERM)
Duration: Fridays at 17:30 - 4/11, 25/11, 2/12, 16/12, 13/1, 27/1, 3/2, 17/2, 9/3, 23/3
This seminar series aims to provide an overview on a wide scope of interdisciplinary research on issues in Life Sciences.
Each session by will group 2 short talks (15 minutes) by first year FDV students introducing their research area and subject.
The presentation, aimed at a general, but scientific audience, should present the domain's important issues and questions that motivate the students' and their labs' research.
These talks should not present research results but provide a "popular" understanding of the domain and the research goals of the speaker.
Mediator: Suzannah Rutherford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Planning: 6 sessions of 2h - 27/10, 3/11, 10/11, 1/12, 8/12 and 15/12/2011
>> Mandatory for FDV 1st year students.
This course is intended to develop the student's ability to read and critically interpret interdisciplinary papers from impact journals. Through this exercise the students will be exposed to a large spectra of interdisciplinary research domains and methodologies.
This exercise is built of a series of seminars, each prepared by two students from different backgrounds, presenting in detail a research paper of their choice. The underlying hypothesis, background and the results is discussed in detail and the different techniques explained. In addition, the students are asked to suggest further experimental/modeling approaches with respect to their conclusions from the paper at stake.
Teacher: Jean-Luc Lebrun
Dates: 3 days: 7, 8, 9th February
(20 participants max)
This course is based on the book "Scientific Writing: A Reader and Writer's Guide". It helps identify and articulate the differences between efficient and deficient scientific writing. Through many in-class exercises, it promotes good scientific writing habits such as conciseness and clarity. The course material is mostly provided by the participants: they bring a published or unpublished paper (6 to 8 pages) to the course and learn how to evaluate and improve documents of the same type.
Career opportunities
Good scientific writing skills open up many opportunities to the researcher: publications, conference or seminar attendance. They also lead to better patents, better research partnerships and better funded research. Clarity and efficiency in scientific writing is a testimony to the quality of a researcher; It influences career promotion.
Target participants
Students, Graduates & postgraduates engaged in research and interested in publishing their findings. Researchers who wish to improve their scientific writing skills (seasoned researchers, have indicated how much they have benefited from this course, even after writing more than 20 papers).
The trainer
Jean-Luc Lebrun has managed research programs while working at Apple Computer in its Advanced Technology Research group for over ten years. He subsequently invested his energy in the commercialization of research. He teaches scientific writing at the following A-Star* research Institutes: BII, BTI, CMM, DSI, GIS, I2R, IBN, ICES, IHPC, IME, IMRE, SBIC, Simtech, and SSCC as well as medical research centres: SGH, NCCS.