IMUN 605 Topics in Cell and Molecular Immunology
605: Course Organizers: Phil Scott and Larry Turka
Purpose of the course: The purpose of this course is to develop skills in: critically reading papers; orally presenting papers in a journal club format; and writing reviews of papers.
Components to the course:
- Presentations: Everyone will have two presentations to give to the class: one to present the background for a paper, and the other to present a paper. Students will have an opportunity to meet with one of the course directors the week before the presentation to help answer questions about the paper and the area of work.
- Future Studies: For each class, students not presenting the background or the paper will be required to submit a brief description of what questions were raised by the paper that should be pursued, and an outline of what experiments you might do to address these questions.
- Class Participation: Each student is expected to participate during the class presentations, asking and answering questions related to the papers/topic being covered.
- Manuscript Reviews: Two reviews will be done by each student during the semester. The first one will be due at the beginning of March. The second will be due in mid-April. Each student will pick one paper from two selected by the course organizers for each of these reviews.
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
March 28
April 4
April 11