Classic Papers

1 credits · Graduate School

The goal of this one-credit course is to expose graduate students to landmark experiments in cell and developmental biology and to show how these studies have shaped contemporary research. Each week, a student, with help of a faculty member from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, will lead the discussion of a landmark paper on related topics. Other students will participate by engaging active discussion and writing a one-page essay to summarize how the original studies had addressed a key gap in a field and offer his/her perspective on how that had altered research trajectories. The course aims at helping students to learn how to identify key gaps in research and how to design experiments to address the gaps. The course also aims to encourage/teach students to use innovative thinking in project designing and planning in their thesis research. FALL. [1] Gu.