Tentative Course Schedule and Reading Assignments
| Date | Topic | Reading |
| 1/19 | Welcome; Res gesta per excellentiam | On Being a Scientist, 3rd ed |
| 1/26 | Ethics discussion | On Being a Scientist, 3rd ed, Fang et al. 2012 |
| 2/2 | Ethics discussion | NIH Proposal by Colin Parrish |
| 2/9 | Scientific proposals; Specific aims assignment | UM CMB website; Proposal Timeline template |
| 2/16 | What’s grad school all about? Peer review of specific aims | |
| 2/23 | Intro to data analysis [Draft of research proposals due] | Biostats lecture notes |
| 3/2 | Proposal peer review | |
| 3/9 | Inferential statistics | ICMJE Recommendations |
| 3/16 | Spring Break | |
| 3/23 | Introduction to scientific communication | |
| 3/30 | How to write an abstract | Data Lecture Notes |
| 4/6 | How to write research results; [Abstracts due] | Wolf-moose assignment |
| 4/13 | Data analysis review | Nature Abstract Guide |
| 4/20 | Peer review of team results | |
| 4/27 | Presentation preparation | |
| 5/5 | Biology Research Seminar | 3:00 to 5:30 in SL 116 |
