Multidisciplinary Integrated Project (PIM)

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The majority of the course will consist of practical laboratory work, under the guidance of a coordenator of each of the MIB specialization branches. Students will be closely followed by a tutor, during the execution of the experimental work, which includes the design of the experiments to be performed, their execution, as well as the interpretation of the obtained results, under the form of a scientific article. Students should always be stimulated to critically analyse the results they obtain, integrating them with those described in the most recent literature, and propose subsequent steps.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims for students to develop, within a laboratorial environment, and under the supervision of the coordenator of each of the MIB specialization branches, a small experiemental work, that typically corresponds to a task planned within the scope of a research project proposal presented in the curricular unit "Research Methods and Techniques". Thus, together the IMRP and RMT curricular units aim to expose students to a reality, which in some way, reproduces all aspects of the research process, from the elaboration of a research project proposal, its evaluation, later execution and the writing of reports/articles based on the obtained results. In this curricular unit, besides performing laboratory tasks students should also learn how to critically interpret and analyse results, subsequently writing a report, in the form of a scientific article.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The student should carry out, in a laboratory environment, and under the supervision of an UC researcher/teacher, a small experimental work. This curricular unit aims to familiarize students with procedures, approaches and methodologies applied in each of the MIB scientific areas/specialization branches: Oncobiology, Vision Sciences, Infection and Immunity, Neurobiology. The laboratory work should correspond, typically, to a task of the research project proposed in "Research Methods and Techniques". Students will experimentally test a well identified scientific hypothesis and in the end write a report where they critically describe and analyse the obtained results.

Head Lecturer(s)

Henrique Manuel Paixão dos Santos Girão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of experimental Work: 40.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Artigos científicos publicados em revistas internacionais da especialidade com revisão por pares. Scientific papers published in international scientific journals with peer-review.