課程資訊
課程名稱
植物演化專題討論
Seminar in Plant Evolution 
開課學期
112-2 
授課對象
生命科學院  生態學與演化生物學研究所  
授課教師
王俊能 
課號
EEB5032 
課程識別碼
B44EU1380 
班次
 
學分
1.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
 
上課地點
 
備註
本課程以英語授課。上課時間地點另訂,選課前請先連絡授課教師。
總人數上限:10人 
 
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課程概述

This is a journal club that designed for postgraduate students in Master's Program in Biodiversity and the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, those who have strong commitment to pursue researches in plant evolution, plant diversity, plant development or pollination ecology. Weekly reading and oral presentations of research topics or scientific journal papers selected from current literature. The design of this course trains you read and summarize journal papers, also to train you to write your MSc thesis proposal.

Topics of this semester include:
Developmental Genetics of Flower symmetry and morphology
Hormone and leaf development
Auxin and flower shape
Techniques for studying gene expression
Tools for studying gene function
Flower color evolution and pollination ecology 

課程目標
Student will intensively read papers every week. In the lecture, student will need to present scientific data from primary research articles and/or from students’ own research proposal. 
課程要求
Students need to have enough English level to read, summarize scientific papers, report their findings and comment writing. In this way, students learn how to organize papers relating to your thesis to formulate background literature reviews. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 備註: Wednesday 9 -10 AM by appointment  
指定閱讀
1. Pollination and floral ecology / Pat Willmer, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011
2. The molecular organography of plants / Quentin Cronk, Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
3. Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, A How-To Manual, 4 th edition/ Barry G Hall, Oxford University Press, 2011
4. 研究生完全求生手冊。彭明輝 2017。聯經出版社 
參考書目
待補 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
個人專題研究計畫寫作 
50% 
research proposal writing 
2. 
每周閱讀指定文章、整理心得並上台報告 
50% 
read assigned journal articles every week, summarize and report as presentation 
 
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