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Organization of 20 Minute Journal Club Talk Prepare and Practice a 18 minute talk with Powerpoint - Select paper - within past two years relevant to topic - Provide instructor with copy of paper week of Sept. 17 - General Organization: 4 - 5 minutes - Purpose and background to article 5 - 8 minutes - Cover key data (show figures) - fully explain experiments, controls and key data 5 - 7 minutes - Conclusions, impact and concerns of paper - Be Critical - Don’t accept just because “in print” Research Seminar Organization: • PREPARE and PRACTICE a 45 minute powerpoint talk! • Outline talk: I Introduction, ~15 min - Go from “Big Picture” to the detail of your thesis project - This is the hook to get your audience interested II Present a clearly stated hypothesis and how you will test it ~1 - 5 min III Experiments and Results, ~15 - 20 min IV Conclusion, ~10 min - Go from your “detailed” results to how it impacts the “Big Picture” (opposite of introduction) - Acknowledgements (thank people who have supported you and provide you with reagents) I - Introduction, ~10 - 15 min: 1) Overall biological question(s) - “Big picture” - Emphasize what is interesting about this project 2) Provide necessary background information to the project - Build a story moving from the broad topic of general interest to your specific thesis project 3) Describe the experimental system and advantages and disadvantages to it versus others systems - organism, gene/RNA/protein - experimental concepts 2
II - Clearly Stated Hypothesis, ~1 - 5 min: - Present a clear & testable hypothesis that logically links your background/introduction and the experiments you will conduct. Example: 1) To genetically identify and isolate the chloroplast 5’ - 3’ exonuclease. 2) Test to see if this nuclease degrades petD mRNA by obtaining & studying a 5’ to 3’ exonribuclease mutant III Experiments and Results, 15 - 20 min: 1) Describe the experimental methods and reagents - Provide enough detail so the audience can understand the technique and interpret the data - Diagram the DNA/RNA/protein/etc. being studied 2) Show the data (graphs, gels, sequence etc.) - Keep figures complete but not cluttered - Use diagrams when possible 3) Describe experiments/results in the most logical order (not always the chronological order) - “Build” a logical story - Be a “hypothesis” driven scientist IV Conclusions, ~5 - 10 min: 1) Summarize key findings from results - don’t just review the data - instead summarize what it means to you 2) Conclude how these findings correspond to the Experimental Goals (relate to introduction) - Build models that can be further tested 3) Acknowledgements, give credit to people who help you - do the experiments - you have collaborated with - provided you with reagents (clones, antibodies, programs, etc.) 3
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