neu650 - Neuroscience Team Project (Vollständige Modulbeschreibung)

neu650 - Neuroscience Team Project (Vollständige Modulbeschreibung)

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Modulbezeichnung Neuroscience Team Project
Modulkürzel neu650
Kreditpunkte 9.0 KP
Workload 270 h
Einrichtungsverzeichnis Department für Neurowissenschaften
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls
  • Master Neuroscience (Master) > Research Modules
Zuständige Personen
  • Kretzberg, Jutta (Modulverantwortung)
  • Albert, Jörg (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Ashida, Go (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Clemens, Jan (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Kretzberg, Jutta (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Rieger, Jochem (Prüfungsberechtigt)
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen

Students from other programs are welcome when space is available.

Dependent on the choice of the project, different modules are prerequisites: Current choices:

neu340 (invertebrate neuroscience)
neu245 (Computational Neuroscience – biophysical modeling)
neu250 (Computational Neuroscience - statistical learning)
 
Kompetenzziele

Goals of this module:

upon completion of this module, students have experienced the full cycle of a research project in a small (5 weeks full time) team project (2-5 students):

  • Definition of an exact research question
  • Development of a teamwork project schedule
  • Literature search
  • Application of experimental or modeling methods they have learned in a preceding background module
  • Data analysis
  • Frequent oral status reports and data discussion
  • Poster presentation


Skills to be acquired/ competencies:

+             Neuroscience knowledge
+             Experimental Methods
+             Scientific Literature
++          Social skills
+             Maths/Stats/Programming
++          Independent Research
++          Data presentation/discussion
+             Scientific English
++          Ethics
 
Modulinhalte

The seminar will cover topics of (tools for) scientific team work, literature search, and science communication.
The topics of the group projects for 2-5 students differ every year, because they are related to ongoing scientific projects (e.g. of PhD students). Current project choice:

  • Invertebrate electrophysiology (requires neu340)
  • Biophysical modeling (requires neu245)
  • Statistical modeling (requires neu250)
Literaturempfehlungen

Journal papers will be selected based on the topic of the project
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Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Dauer in Semestern 1 Semester
Angebotsrhythmus Modul Last 4 weeks of summer term. Plus poster presentation in the first week of the semester break
Aufnahmekapazität Modul 12
Modulart Wahlpflicht / Elective
Modullevel EB (Ergänzungsbereich / Complementary)
Vorkenntnisse Each of the teamwork projects from which one can be chosen requires the methods from a specific background module:
Invertebrate electrophysiology: neu340
Biophyical modeling: neu245
Statistcal modeling: neu250
Lehrveranstaltungsform Kommentar SWS Angebotsrhythmus Workload Präsenz
Seminar 2 SoSe oder WiSe 28
Contact (hours): 28
Self-studies and science communication workshop (hours): 62
Total workload (hours): 90
Praktikum 6 SoSe oder WiSe 84
Contact (hours): 84
Independent work (including team work organization, data analysis, poster design): 96
Total workload (hours): 180
Präsenzzeit Modul insgesamt 112 h
Prüfung Prüfungszeiten Prüfungsform
Gesamtmodul

Portfolio tasks are performed during the module. The poster must be submitted and presented 1 week after completion of the practical work. 

Portfolio, consisting of 

  • Project plan
  • Practical experimental or modeling work, discussed in frequent oral status reports
  • Poster