Biology 597GP - ST-Great Papers in Biology

Most courses present the prevailing wisdom of the field as artistically rendered figures that summarize a large body of information and present it as dogma. However, that?s not how the field actually advances. Breakthroughs occur when researchers publish original research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Sometime the importance of the work is obvious at the time of publication and sometimes it takes many years for the true significance of the work to be appreciated. The Great Papers in Biology course is designed to allow students to read seminal papers in biology with the goals of: 1) understanding, in detail, how the experiments were
conducted; 2) how the results were interpreted; and 3) how the work changed scientists' understanding of biology. Papers to be discussed will represent a wide range of fields within Biology, including: developmental biology, genetics/genomics, neuroscience, cell biology, and the mechanisms of disease.

Open to Senior and Junior Biology majors only.