复旦大学新视野系列研究生课程：科研论文的构思、撰写和发表,怎样做一个好研究生,教育部奖励计划讲座教授 复旦大学生命科学学院院长金 力,人类分子遗传学家、教育部“奖励计划”讲座教授、复旦大学生命科学学院院长。1985年复旦大学生物系遗传专业本科毕业，1987年复旦大学遗传学专业硕士毕业，1994年获德克萨斯大学遗传学博士学位，1994年至1996年在美国斯坦福大学医学院从事博士后研究。曾任德克萨斯大学助理教授、副教授、辛辛那提大学医学院教授。现兼任中科院-马普计算生物学伙伴研究所所长，国家人类基因组南方研究中心副主任，“973”项目首席科学家，人类基因组学杂志主编和人类生物学、突变研究等杂志的编委等职务。金力教授近年来在复旦大学主持的进化遗传学研究揭示了“东亚现代人的非洲起源”和“汉族藏缅民族的同源关系”，论文发表在Nature, Science和Am. J. Hum. Genet等国际学术刊物上。,金力教授简介,9月27日（周二；晚6:30） 秦伯益院士10月10日（周一；下午2:00）韩珉教授,科研论文的构思、撰写和发表课讲座预告：,How to be a good graduate student?,Li Jin Fudan University/CAS-MPG Institute of Computational Biology,What should be the goals?,To receive higher education and to be more knowledgeable To achieve higher social status To make your family proud To find a better job To be wealthy To make more contribution to the society To save the world To do something you really really really really really like,Me,What does a graduate student should achieve?,Learn to be a good scientist Independent thinking Independent research capability Effective communication/presentation Reasonable writing skills Laboratory skills Grantsmanship: Planning, design, and budget preparation People skills Organizing skills,What does a university/institute want?,Tuition Resources from government/agency Labors Future scholars!,What does a professor want?,Teaching is required Cheap labors Young and active brains Future helpers/followers Future colleagues,What do I want?,Independent researchers Big brains with some hands Better scholars Mature/Well-rounded Vision and paying attention to BBQ Good common sense Excellent logic Effective communicators,What is science?,Falsifiable Hypothesis driven Identify/develop testable hypothesis Know the field/know the history,A Good Scientist,Brains versus hands Profession versus occupation Maturity Importance of collaboration Resourceful Grantsmanship,My student career,81-85 Fudan undergraduate 85-87 Fudan graduate 88-90 University of Texas CDPG 90-94 University of Texas Houston 94-96 Stanford U 97- Faculty,GSBS, UT,Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Founded in 1972 2 dozen interdisciplinary programs 400 faculties/400 students Allow switch program freely Four core courses: quantitative, system, cell biology, biochemistry/mol biol. Train top researchers who can survive fierce competition,What are the lessons at UT?,Positive A lot of readings/discussions/seminars Excellent program: Breadth and depth Training for faculty career Negative Not enough opportunities to interact with top researchers Narrow-minded,Course work,Core courses: didactic + research Core course + Specialty courses,Quality Controls,Admission Course work Qualifying exams (written + oral) Defense Committees: Advisory Committee Exam Committee Supervisory Committee,What I leant at Stanford?,Many top researchers/talents Excellent atmosphere Not well-structured: good for postdocs but may not be good for students,Presentation,Very very important Practice and training are important Anybody can be a good presenter,Attending meetings,Very important and wonderful opportunity Dont waste your time to do sight-seeing Know people and their research Make yourself known Sense the art of science and feel the future Networking,Seminar,Ask stupid questions. If you dont think you are stupid, then you are not stupid.,Writing,One of the most important skills in research Papers Grant proposals,How to use your supervisor,Knowledge Experience Resource,Where are frontiers?,Those defined by others Those defined by yourselves How to find frontiers?,How to write a good manuscript?,Think before you write Prepare an outline/story line Fill the outline with messages Logic is important: good story vs bad story Write clearly/use short sentences Be explicit as much as you can Good discussion is important,How to be creative?,Use your common sense Practice your brain Make mistakes and learn from it Jot down your thoughts (good or bad),