Laboratory Rotation

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Topics assigned for laboratory work, conferences, and reading. The final goal in this course is that students may choose a thesis project to develop during the graduate training and select an advisor that will supervise their academic and scientific progress. The graduate students will rotate in two laboratories of investigators in the Physiology Department for a period of 9 weeks in each laboratory. The rotations are periods of scientific training in laboratories of the Physiology Department, selected by the student. Each credit is equivalent to 5 hours of research work per week ( 135 research hours/9 weeks of rotation). During these rotations, the students will learn research techniques related to a specific project and the rationale to perform those experiments. These rotations should be performed with different members of the Physiology faculty, in order to obtain more diversity among the research areas in the Department. The final goal in this course is that students may choose a thesis project to develop during the graduate training and select an advisor that will supervise the student academic and scientific progress. FISA 8542 - Directed Reading.