Experimental Design and Conceptualization Course

Type of class Seminar

Offered by Medical Neurosciences

Schedule Schedule Wednesdays, afternoons, see 'Sessions' below for details

Location Location see 'Sessions' below for details.

Contact Marietta Zille ()

Target audience MSc and PhD students

ECTS points 0.2 per Session

Organized by Marietta Zille (send email)

Learning Outcome

The structure of this course comprises a journal club, in which the lecturer presents a high-impact paper and the current state of his research area, and subsequent group work sessions during which the students have to think about possible continuation experiments/projects based on the papers presented or questions suggested by the lecturer. The lecturer gives feedback as to whether the project designs (i.e. chronology and suitability of suggested experiments to address the scientific question) is reasonable. Preparation material can be sent out in advance and the time frame is 180 min for the entire course. The outline of the course could be as follows: 1. 60–90 min presentation of a high-impact paper by the lecturer 2. 45 min group work 3. 45–60 min presentation/discussion of the results By establishing such a course we aim to contribute to the students’ understanding of how to logically conceptualize and design experiments, apart from the mere knowledge of how techniques work.

Sessions

Wed, May 05, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Speaker: Daniel S. Margulies
Research Area: Critical Neuroscience

Website: http://www.critical-neuroscience.org/

Location: Seminarraum Ebene 3 der Poliklinik (Lecture Hall Level 3), Alte
Nervenklinik (Clinic for Neurology), CCM, 10117 Berlin, (Internal address
on campus: Bonhoefferweg 3)

Readings: tba

Wed, May 12, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Isabel Dziobek
Research Area: Structural and functional MRI of social cognitive functioning in autism

Website: http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/personen/personendetails.html?tx_wwscloepersonmicrosite_pi1[showUid]=416

[New] Location: Humboldt Graduate School, Room 122, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin

Readings:

• Chiu, P.H. et al. (2008). Self responses along ingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high-functioning autism. Neuron: 57, 463–473.
• Nacewicz BM et al. (2006). mygdala volume and nonverbal social impairment in adolescent and adult males with autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. Dec;63(12):1417–28.

Tue, May 18, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mary Harrington
Research Area: Book “The Design of Experiments in Neuroscience”, Circadian
Rhythms

Website: http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/PSYCH/mharrington/ and
http://www.funjournal.org/downloads/Cameron.pdf

Location: Humboldt Graduate School, Room 144, Luisenstraße 56, 10117
Berlin

Readings:

• Davidson et al., Visualizing jet lag in the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus and peripheral circadian timing system, Eur J Neurosci. 2009, PMID: 19032592

Wed, June 16, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann
Research Area: Optogenetics

Website: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/biologie/expbp/index.php?goto=research&link=Research%20activities
Location: Humboldt Graduate School, Room 220, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Readings:

• Scanziani M, Häusser M., Electrophysiology in the age of light. Nature 2009. PMID: 19829373

• Gradinaru V et al., Molecular and cellular approaches for diversifying and extending optogenetics. Cell 2010. PMID: 20303157

Wed, June 23, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Alison L Barth, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA)
Research Area: Learning and Memory

Website: http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/barth.html
Location: Humboldt Graduate School, Room 220, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Readings:

• Benedetti et al., J. Neuroscience, 2009, PMID: 19776268

• Clem et al., Science, 2008, PMID: 18174444

 
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