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The research report which you are required to present as a part of this course will be used to determine one-third of the final grade. The reports can be written, or presented orally, or developed in html as a web page. Written reports or html reports are due for submission on April 19, 2007. Oral reports will be presented during the last three weeks of the course. More specific instructions and directions are given below. Honors students will be expected to make oral presentations of their research topic in order to fullfill the Honors requirement.
Students satisfy this requirement in one of three ways: (1) submission of a written research paper in the classic style of a scientific journal article; (2) an oral report (20 minutes-power point required) on a research topic to be presented during the last six class periods; (3) development of a web-based (html) article, devoted to providing current information on a specific research topic. Obviously, there are different criteria for the development of your research theme provided in these different approaches.
Topics chosen for your report may depend upon your specific interests but should have to do with a bacterial parasite-host interaction. This will be given the broadest of interpretations. The report can be general or quite specific within this context. If you are in doubt about a topic that you are considering, clear it first with the instructor before beginning your research. In general, plan on developing your research topic and your medium by March 27.
Your report is an original composition for Bacteriology 330. It
should not have been submitted in any form for another class or
academic project, and it should not be used subsequently as a
representation of your work
for another course.
All of the sources (references) that you use to gather information to
write or present the article should be cited properly at the end. At
least five references are required; two should come from 2005 - 2007.
Use a standard form for all citations. If you quote an author,
paraphrase an author, or use
another author's data in your presentation, cite the source by author,
title
or website, or cite the publication by its number in your reference
list
provided at the end. References may come from textbooks, review
articles, original scientific articles in books or journals, or reports
in respectable lay publications. You can use up to three references
exclusively from the web, in which case a citation should refer to the
author, date, link (or URL),
and the date the information was observed. Credibility of your
references will be considered. At least two of your references should
be found in the library, not to say they may also be on the web.
The report shall not exceed six double-spaced typed pages, excluding the references. The number of references cited need not not exceed five, and at least two of the references must be from current original scientific literature (i.e., they should not be review articles in which original data is not presented, and they should have been published between 2001 and 2007).
There is no strict form or style that your article must follow, but
its level of presentation should be pitched at the educated scientific
reader. Your article will likely be a record of work done by others,
results observed, and conclusions drawn. Such an article might contain
at a minimum three main parts or sections: Introduction, Observations
and Results, Conclusions/Discussion and an optional Summary. Certain
topics may also require a section on Materials and Methods. If you are
in doubt or want to obseve a scientific style go to
any of the Research Articles in a recent edition of copy of the
CDC
journal Emerging
Infectious
Diseases.
Introduction: Begin the article with a clear identification of its subject. State the nature of the topic (the host-parasite interaction) and define the specific aspect of it that you are going to discuss. Include any historical information or background that is needed to comprehend the subject you are going to discuss. Orient your article in time relevant to work completed in the field. If your paper deals with the scientific attack on a specific question or problem, identify that question or problem here.
Observations and Results: Report the experimental observations and results of one or more research groups. You may state the methods used to obtain the results, but do not describe any methods or materials in detail. You may present original data, figures, tables, graphs, etc., if their sources are properly cited. You may compare or contrast the findings of various groups.
Discussion/Conclusion: Discuss the significance of the scientific data and information presented in the foregoing section. Are ther any important conclusions thatcan be drawn from the data. Give particular attention to the question asked or the problem posed in the Introduction. Do the results (data) answer the question or solve the problem? Are similar questions answered or problems solved in analogous systems? What questions are unanswered? Are there different ways of interpreting the data? Are there findings that do not agree with these? What new questions are raised by the information and results that have been presented? Are there any logical implications of the results for practical application or future studies?
Summary (optional): Give a short summary of your report. Nothing new or hypothetical goes here. This part could also serve as an abstract of your report. Provide the reader with a helpful review of your report and a succinct condensation of the its contents. The summary should not contain illustrations or tables, or references to them or to the literature.
Follow the General Instructions given above for your references.
If you would rather present your paper orally, there are
opportunities
available. You can present a 20 minute minilecture, according to the
usual
educational objectives of the course, on a specific host-parasite
relationship,
bacterial parasite, or bacterial disease.A broad range of topics is
available.
These Include the following diseases or pathogens, which can be
individually
chosen on a first-come/first-served basis. Other organisms or topics
may
be added to this list, or you may present your own idea to the
instructor
for approval.
A good place to get ideas for oral presentations is from the CDC
journal Emerging
Infectious Diseases, but if you find a specific topic you like
there, be prepared to go one level deeper into the research for your
own presentation.
Bartonella henselae angent of cat scratch fever
Bartonella quintana infections
Campylobacter jejuni and/or Mycoplasma and Guillan Barre
Syndrome
Causes and treatment of hospital-acquired urinary tract
infections
Chlamydia trachomatis and chlamydia disease
Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis
Clostridium botulinum and the medical uses of botox
Clostridium difficile as a nosocomial pathogen
Community-acquired MRSA infections
drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
drug-resistant staphylococci (MRSA and VRSA), in the hospital
environment
Analysis of recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks
Helicobacter pylori and gastric ulcers
Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer
Human Ehrlichiosis
Legionella pneumophila
Lyme Disease in Wisconsin
Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Effects of Lyme disease
Pathogenesis of Shigella dysenteriae
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis patients
Re-emergence of whooping cough in Wisconsin
Rickettsia rickettsii and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Salmonella enterica Typhymurium DT104
Should UW students be vaccinated for meningicoccal meningitis?
staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome
streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis
Vaccines for anthrax
Vaccines for Lyme Disease
Vibrio cholerae 0139 cholera
Vibrio vulnificus
Yersinia pestis and plague
Electronic presentations with power point and related programs are required if this option is chosen. Honors students are required to exercise this option in order to fulfill Honors credit.
If you would like to submit your research article for publication on the Bacteriology web server, on the "Microbiology for the General Public" page, you must develop the article in an approriate format using html, and submit both a hard copy and html versions. The article will be made available to students in Bact 330 from April 19 through May 10.
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Edited on Jan 30, 2007 by Kenneth Todar University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology.