Content (Syllabus outline)
Individual research project may include contents from all mandatory and elective subjects, where the microbe is involved in the project, either as a working organism ,as a project study or as a factor that causes changes in the environment or the pathogen. The project includes theoretical background on a particular experiment, autonomous execution of experiments, analyzing the results and writing reports on the research project and presentation. The project report contains the following sections:
Introduction
Working hypothesis
Overview of sources
Material and methods
The results and discussion
Conclusions and recommendations
Literature
Individual research project usually involves conduction of experiments in laboratory, but can also be just data processing, which the student must evaluate critically. It will be under the supervision of habilitated teacher participating in teaching program of microbiology and is elected by the student himself. The project is bound to the narrower research expertise of the mentor or the contents of the professional courses of the study.
Prerequisites
Enrollment in the 3rd year of BSc program Microbiology.