The seminar is intended for advanced students and will be held predominantly in English. In particular, presentations and all administrative communication (including email messages) regarding the seminar have to be in English.
Each participant has to prepare a scientific presentation of a topic related to the learning outcomes of the seminar including an abstract with all references used (maximum 600 words excluding references), an oral presentation of 20 minutes supported by PowerPoint slides, and a 25 min discussion of the presented topic with all seminar participants.
The abstracts will be made available online on the homepage of the seminar (this site) on the web pages of the Emerging Focus Nutrigenomics. Seminar participants are requested to prepare themselves for the seminar by at least reading the abstacts. We strongly recommend to work through additional background information available via the usual sources of information (Scopus, Web of Science, etc).
To clearly indicate what is expected from you during the seminar, you may find the following information useful:
- Your task as presenter: The presenters are expected to introduce the assigned topic, including all further relevant information and references which are required to fully understand the scientific background of the paper, the experimental setup of the paper (if relevant), the discussion of the results and the substantiation of the conclusions made. If papers are provided they are solely intended as a starting point of your work; they will not be sufficient without additional background information. Therefore, it is essential that the presenters include relevant papers cited by the authors of the starting paper and to conduct their own literature search if necessary. Presenters are expected to respond to critical issues raised by the seminar participants.
- Your task as participant: All seminar participants are required to have read the papers provided and to identify critical issues which need to be discussed or addressed during the seminar. The participants are requested to challenge the presenters with a critical discussion of the paper presented. Please note that it is essential for you as participant that you demonstrate to be able to identify relevant points for further discussion, gaps in study design, future research resulting from new questions, etc.
An important learning outcome of the seminar is a high level of scientific presentation skills. All participants are required to comment on the style of the slides used for the presentation, on the style of the presentation itself, and on the respondance to the discussion. Although it is recognised, that you may feel uncomfortable critisising your colleagues, we strongly believe that this will help you to identify weaknesses in your presentation style and to improve this accordingly. |
