| Week 1 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- How to find your Niche
- Read Your Inner Fish Book- Chapter 1, 2, and 3
- Watch Your Inner Fish Film
- Discussion Forum on the book and film
- Introduction to Stem Cell Research- Ted Talk by Susan Solomon
- Develop Good Habit- Procrastination
- How I Became a Scientist-Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa- John Hopkins
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 2 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- How to Develop Research Project
- Read Your Inner Fish Book- Chapter 4, 5, and 6
- Watch Film- Your Inner Reptile
- Discussion Forum on the book and film
- Introduction to Animal and Human Subject Research and Case Study
- Introduction to Biosecurity- Ted Talk- Alanna Shaikh
- Develop Good Habit- Productivity
- Science Blogging for Beginners
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 3 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Criteria to Evaluate Your Scientific Question
- Read Your Inner Fish Book- Chapter 7, 8, 9, and 10
- Watch Film- Your Inner Monkey
- Discussion Forum on the book and film
- Develop Good Habit- Mind Mapping
- Discussion on Mentor-Mentee relationship
- How I Became a Scientist- Dr. Harold Varmus- NCI
- Use of Coggle to mind map a science blog
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 4 |
- Team Building
- Research 101
- Getting the most out of mentoring
- Motivation and Student Success
- Using the library
- Mental Health and Self Care
- Helpful Online Tools for Research and Productivity
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Network and Professionalism
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| Week 5 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- The process of asking Scientific Questions, formulating a hypothesis
- Introduction to Virus, structure, genome, transmission mechanism and vaccine availability
- Introduction to Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
- Introduction to OneNote for note-taking
- Introduction to Conflict of Interest and Case Study
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 6 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Importance of planning your research, setting goals
- Introduction to Bioinformatics and its Application
- Develop Good Habit- Psychology of Self Motivation
- Introduction to Authorship, Publication, and Peer Review and Case Study
- Introduction to Research topic, research problem
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 7 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Goal-setting strategies and discussions with mentors
- Finding literature relevant to the research topic
- How to read and annotate a research paper
- Develop Good Habit- Psychology of Self Motivation
- Bioinformatics- NCBI/Blast
- Mini-assignment-Use of Blast to identify similar proteins
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 8 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Bioinformatics- Comparative Genomics and Multiple Sequence Alignment
- Mini-assignment- Use of ClustalW Omega to align similar proteins
- Develop a Growth Mindset & Seek Feedback
- Review assigned research papers, summarize journal articles using coggle
- Developing experimental design
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 9 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Presentation on a scientific paper
- Bioinformatics- Phylogenetics
- Mini-assignment- Use of phylogeny.fr to reconstruct a robust phylogenetic tree from a set of sequences
- Data collection
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 10 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Data Analysis and Drawing Conclusions
- Prepare Powerpoint presentations
- Weekly meetings with GA mentor
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| Week 11 |
- Practice PowerPoint presentations with GA
- Record PPT
- 17th Annual Summer Research Symposium- July 30 and July 31
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| Week 12 |
- Weekly zoom meeting at 10 am
- Development of Individual Development Plan- myIDP
- SRI assessments
- SRI reflections
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