Instructions for Tutorial Presentations, Reports, Assignments
List Of Student Led Tutorial Papers With Dates and Names of Presenters
A paper will be assigned for each of 10 tutorials with the topics integrated into lecture material. If you do not have experience reading scientific literature you should read ‘Tips for Reading a Paper‘. The assignments for individual tutorials will also help direct your attention to important points in each paper. All tutorials except for the first two will be student-led.
| Date | Topic/Link to paper | Activity | Assignment |
| Jan. 7 | No tutorial | ||
| Jan. 14 | Molecular Analysis of Plant Genes | assignment-class discussion | Tutorial Assignment #1 Powerpoint Presentation |
| Jan. 21 | No tutorial
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| Jan. 28 | Plant biochemistry/metabolism
guideline questions |
assignment- student presentation | Tutorial Assignment #2 Powerpoint presentation |
| Feb. 4 | Plant biochemistry/metabolism
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #3 Powerpoint Presentation |
| Feb. 11 | Plant biochemistry/metabolism
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #4 Powerpoint Presentation |
| Feb. 25 | Plant development
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #5 Powerpoint Presentation |
| Mar. 3 | Plant development
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #6 Powerpoint presentation |
| Mar. 10 | Plant development
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #7 Powerpoint presentation |
| Mar, 17 | Plant-pathogen interactions
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #8 Powerpoint presentation |
| Mar. 24 | Plant- pathogen interactions
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #9 Powerpoint presentation |
| Mar. 31 | Plant- pathogen interactions
guideline questions |
“ “ | Tutorial Assignment #10 Powerpoint presentation |
Assignments:
A short assignment will be due at the beginning of each tutorial except for the first tutorial and the tutorial you help present (for a total of 9% of the course mark). The objective of the assignments is to motivate you to read and think about the tutorial paper before it is discussed.
Group presentations:
You will be asked to sign up for one of 9 group presentations. Your group will design and deliver an oral presentation (in which all group members will participate) that defines the question addressed by the paper, summarizes the genetic methodology used to address the question, provides a critical analysis of the results of the reported experiments, summarizes the authors’ (and your) interpretations of the results, and describes unanswered and/or newly raised questions. Each of your classmates will have read the paper, and the ideal presentation will engage the class in an interactive manner.
You will be evaluated on the quality of your presentation as a group (5%) and individually (10% for oral presentation + 5% for your own written summary of the paper for a total of 20% of the course mark.
Accessing tutorial papers.
Tutorial papers will be made available on our web-site (https://blogs.ubc.ca/biol433/). The papers needed for our first two tutorials are presently available, while the others will be posted the second week of classes. If you have difficulty downloading the papers please let us know.