Welcome to the homepage for Bio398A: Topics in Plant
Biology!
William Terzaghi
Professor of Biology
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Office: SLC 363
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Office Hours: MWF 12-1, TR 1-2 in SLC363 or by appointment
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Telephone number: (570) 408-4762
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email: terzaghi@wilkes.ed
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For your next presentation on April 11, prepare a 15-20'
journal club on a topic related to what we are currently discucssing.
Some suggestions:
- Plant biofuel related
- Photosynthesis related
- Enhancing light harvesting
- Enhancing carbon capture
- Plant biotechnology related
- Agriculture related
Spend ~ 5’- 10’ setting the stage:
- what is the general question?
- Why is it important?
- What was previously known?
- What were the outstanding questions?
Then state the specific question addressed in your paper
Next explain how they studied it
- General overview of techniques first
- then specifics
- What were they trying to do?
- how did they do it?
Then describe their results
- General overview first
- Then specific experiments
- Specific purpose of each experiment
- How they tested it
- Data they collected
- Controls!!
- How they analyzed it
Conclusions they drew
Your interpretation
- Do you agree?
- How could they improve
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