Mediators : Ariel Lindner (INSERM/Paris Descartes), Pascal Hersen (CNRS/Paris Diderot)
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 1st trimester 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.
1. The articles (in PDF format) should be posted no later than a week before the presentation on the secured AIV wiki.
2. All students participating in the course have to fill their comments, including the strong and weak points of the paper as well as points not well understood no later than three days before the presentation.
3. The points raised in the student's feedbacks will be then addressed during the presentation.
4. A Short debriefing of the presenters by the AIV mentors will take place after the seminar
Mediator: Lucy Veisblat (University Paris Diderot), for the department Études Interculturelles de Langues Appliquées (EILA) of the University Paris Diderot
Scientific English (annual course, 48 weeks=72 hours)
Cours d'anglais de différents niveaux (selon tests) ciblés sur l'environnement scientifique; groupes de 10 à 12 étudiants de même niveau, entraînement à la compréhension et à l'expression orales et écrites.
Cours de 1h30, le matin (8h-9h30) ou le soir (18h-19h30)
Enseignement assuré par un intervenant extérieur pratiquant la rédaction ou traduction scientifique
Scientific English (week course, 15h over 5 days)
Stage de préparation à la communication scientifique avec pour objectif spécifique la préparation d'une communication scientifique publique; exercices de déblocage à la prise de parole et à la compréhension orale; utilisation de documents audio, vidéo et ressources en lignes. Situations d'entretiens individuels et par groupes.
Enseignement assuré en alternance par plusieurs enseignants anglophones.
Stage de 15 heures sur 5 jours ; groupe de 5 à 6 participants.
Scientific English : professional communication (week course, 15h over 5 days)
Stage de préparation à la rédaction de documents professionnels en anglais : rapports, courriers, courriers électroniques, supports de présentation. Travail sur l'efficacité de la communication et la concision. Exercices pratiques à partir de documents rédigés par les participants.
Stage de 15 heures sur 5 jours; groupe de 10 à 12 participants.
Enseignement assuré par un intervenant extérieur spécialiste de la communication professionnelle.
General English (annual course, 48 weeks, 96 hours)
Les doctorants souhaitant améliorer leur anglais général ont la possibilité de s'inscrire aux cours de formation continue (niveaux 1 à 5) proposés au public.
• Cours du soir (18h-20h), d'octobre à juin soit 48 semaines
• Stage intensif d'anglais, 30 heures, une semaine en juin
Les doctorants ont également accès en libre-service à l'auto-formation à l'anglais dans les locaux du CRL.
By the department Études Interculturelles de Langues Appliquées (EILA) of the University Paris Diderot
Mediator: Lucy Veisblat (University Paris Descartes)
The department organizes in 2010 two workshops on "French as a foreign Language" open to FDV students focussed on spoken French for professional and academic uses.
Workshop of 30h over 5 days, 15 students maximum. Exercices on oral comprehension and expression, exploration of some aspects of French culture. (session 1: week of January 11th 2010, session 2: week of June 7th 2010.
Mediator: Andrew Murray (Harvard/CRI)
Course Philosophy - What is systems biology?
Our definition is studying how little things come together to produce big things that have interesting properties that none of the little things exhibit in isolation, with an emphasis on understanding the general principles behind these transformations. This includes understanding how a linear chain of amino acids becomes a protein with a specific structure and function, how a group of proteins interact with each other to produce devices for receiving information, processing it, and inducing cellular responses (such as biological clocks), and how the accumulation of mutations leads to the evolution of such sophisticated machines.
The course will use several examples (the Lac operon, decisions in the development of flies and bacteria, clocks, chromosome segregation, evolution, and sex) to explore the existence of general principles that explain the function and evolution of cells and their components. By concentrating on concepts, we hope to make the course accessible both to students from physics and mathematics whose background in biology is weak and to biology students with little exposure to mathematics. The ancestral version of this class included basic instruction in computer programming, but within the format of the AIV/FdV this material will be covered in other classes and you will be encouraged to use these skills to improve your understanding of the material presented in this class.
Duration: 12 sessions of lecture (2h)+discussion(2h)