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Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology
BACKGROUND: A key challenge in interdisciplinary research is choosing the best approach from a large number of techniques derived from different disciplines and their interfaces. RESULTS: To address this challenge in the area of Biophysics and Structural Biology, we have designed a graduate level co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4134111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-1682-7-6 |
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author | Leuba, Sanford H Carney, Sean M Dahlburg, Elizabeth M Eells, Rebecca J Ghodke, Harshad Yanamala, Naveena Schauer, Grant Klein-Seetharaman, Judith |
author_facet | Leuba, Sanford H Carney, Sean M Dahlburg, Elizabeth M Eells, Rebecca J Ghodke, Harshad Yanamala, Naveena Schauer, Grant Klein-Seetharaman, Judith |
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description | BACKGROUND: A key challenge in interdisciplinary research is choosing the best approach from a large number of techniques derived from different disciplines and their interfaces. RESULTS: To address this challenge in the area of Biophysics and Structural Biology, we have designed a graduate level course to teach students insightful use of experimental biophysical approaches in relationship to addressing biological questions related to biomolecular interactions and dynamics. A weekly seminar and data and literature club are used to compliment the training in class. The course contains wet-laboratory experimental demonstration and real-data analysis as well as lectures, grant proposal preparation and assessment, and student presentation components. Active student participation is mandatory in all aspects of the class. Students prepare materials for the class receiving individual and iterative feedback from course directors and local experts generating high quality classroom presentations. CONCLUSIONS: The ultimate goal of the course is to teach students the skills needed to weigh different experimental approaches against each other in addressing a specific biological question by thinking and executing academic tasks like faculty. |
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spelling | pubmed-41341112014-08-16 Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology Leuba, Sanford H Carney, Sean M Dahlburg, Elizabeth M Eells, Rebecca J Ghodke, Harshad Yanamala, Naveena Schauer, Grant Klein-Seetharaman, Judith BMC Biophys Correspondence BACKGROUND: A key challenge in interdisciplinary research is choosing the best approach from a large number of techniques derived from different disciplines and their interfaces. RESULTS: To address this challenge in the area of Biophysics and Structural Biology, we have designed a graduate level course to teach students insightful use of experimental biophysical approaches in relationship to addressing biological questions related to biomolecular interactions and dynamics. A weekly seminar and data and literature club are used to compliment the training in class. The course contains wet-laboratory experimental demonstration and real-data analysis as well as lectures, grant proposal preparation and assessment, and student presentation components. Active student participation is mandatory in all aspects of the class. Students prepare materials for the class receiving individual and iterative feedback from course directors and local experts generating high quality classroom presentations. CONCLUSIONS: The ultimate goal of the course is to teach students the skills needed to weigh different experimental approaches against each other in addressing a specific biological question by thinking and executing academic tasks like faculty. BioMed Central 2014-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4134111/ /pubmed/25132964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-1682-7-6 Text en Copyright © 2014 Leuba et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Correspondence Leuba, Sanford H Carney, Sean M Dahlburg, Elizabeth M Eells, Rebecca J Ghodke, Harshad Yanamala, Naveena Schauer, Grant Klein-Seetharaman, Judith Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title | Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title_full | Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title_fullStr | Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title_full_unstemmed | Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title_short | Early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
title_sort | early integration of the individual student in academic activities: a novel classroom concept for graduate education in molecular biophysics and structural biology |
topic | Correspondence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4134111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-1682-7-6 |
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