Bootcamp Part 2 — Scientific Method, Experimental Design & Lab Techniques

Topics & Agenda

• Scientific Method & Experimental Design (30 min) — Speaker: Rana Said
  2025‑BioBootCamp‑2.1 — Scientific Method & Experimental Design (PPTX)

• Literature Research (15 min) — Speaker: Dominika Wawrzyniak
  2025‑BioBootCamp‑2.2 — Literature Research (PPTX)

• Tools for Molecular Biology (30 min) — Speakers: Adrian Filips & Rana Said
  2025‑BioBootCamp‑2.3 — Databases (PPTX)

• Wet Lab Methods (90 min) — Speakers: Jieming Chu, Adrian Filips, Martina Armas, Benjamin Arias
  2.4 — Biosafety & Sterile Techniques · 2.5 — Culturing Microorganisms · 2.6 — DNA Extraction · 2.7 — DNA Sequence Analysis · 2.8 — Lab Methods 3

• Scientific Figures (15 min) — Speaker: Dominika Wawrzyniak
  2025‑BioBootCamp‑2.9 — How to Create Scientific Figures (PPTX)

Most‑updated slides: Part II (Google Drive)
Recording: MIT Zoom

Resources

• Image practice & guides

  • Effective image visualization for publications — F1000Research
  • Community‑developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses — Nature Methods
  • 3 ways to make your scientific images accurate, informative and accessible — Nature Index

• Literature research

  • Google Scholar advanced search — SEMO Guide
  • PubMed keyword search — Harvard Library Guide