Date | Discussion leader | Topic | Reading |
April 1 | Paul Patterson |
Authorship and Peer Review | Chapters 4,8 |
April 8 | Paul Sternberg |
Mentoring | Chapter 3 |
April 15 | Elliot Meyerowitz |
Scientific Misconduct | Chapters 1,2 |
April 22 | Peter Dervan |
Conflicts of Interest | Chapter 7 |
April 29 | Hannah Dvorak-Carbone |
Intellectual Property | Chapter 9 |
May 6 | Janet Baer | Animal Subjects |
Chapter 6 |
May 13 | Barbara Wold |
Human Genomes | Chapter 10 |
May 20 | Grace Fisher-Adams |
Human Subjects | Chapter 5 |
May 27 |
Caltech Holiday |
read chapter 11 |
Chapter 11 |
1) Class is
only offered Pass/Fail
2) All
students registered for the class must sign a sign-up sheet at
each lecture as
a record of attendance. Any
missed
classes must be made up the following year.
3) The
class requirement is to write a skit representing a scenario
that will lead to
discussion of one of the topics, and to email it to the TA. Teams are encouraged
to get together to write
the skit, there should be one character in the skit per team
member. Skits will
be performed in class, the authors
will be the actors.