MIS4100 · Regenerative medicine research project

Overview

The Honours year aims to develop analytic abilities, research skills, and communication skills, as well as provide you with advanced knowledge in specific areas of: • heart and muscle development and regeneration • immunity and regeneration • stem cells, cancer and regeneration • neural regeneration. In this unit, training is in the context of a scientific project, with an aim to train you in cutting edge scientific techniques as well as developing broad generic skills. You will undertake a supervised research project of a publishable standard that forms the basis of a thesis due at the end of the year. You will also present seminars on their research throughout the year.

Areas of study: Regenerative medicine

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Critically review the scientific literature that underpins the area of the research project;
2. Undertake a supervised research project and contribute to project design and management;
3. Apply appropriate laboratory techniques, research methodologies and data analysis methods to collect, interpret and report research findings;
4. Effectively present research and findings orally showing a firm grasp of the area;
5. Analyse research undertaken in the context of the discipline area and report findings in an extended written report.

Workload

To be advised by honours co-ordinator

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.