Welcome to Honours 2018!! - Monash University · • BSc Exam: 1.30-5.30 pm Tues 5th June for BSc @ CCS • (BMS exam: 12.30-4.30 pm Tues 5th June @ Clayton) 3. Discipline-specific

Welcome to Honours 2018!!

Honours Coordinators:

A/Prof. Margaret [email protected] 9903-0921

A/Prof. Justin [email protected] 9903-0125

Student Services Officer:

Ms. Eliza [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



Time Content Speaker

11:00am-11.20amIntroduction: Course objectives, year outline, Alfred support services and mentorship

MH

11.20am-12:00pm Panel discussion with recent honours and current PhD students experiences

AN, JC, EW chaired by JH

12:00pm-12:15pm Group Shot JV12:15pm-1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm-1:10pm

Monash Micro Imaging-AMREP JH

Flow cytometry: Procedures and use of flow facilities JH

Animal Facility: Introduction into procedures and requirements for the use and handling of animals in the AMREP animal facility

JH

1:10pm-1:20pm Student safety and well being RB

1:20pm-1:30pm Library Skills and workshops TZ

1:30pm-2:30pmIndividual portraits

Venue: Tute Room 6, Level 5, Alfred CentreJV

CCS Honours Orientation Day Program

You’ve made a great choice coming to AMREP…

• A major medical research precinct– Basic & clinical

• Terrific breadth of research– Numerous weekly seminars across diverse disciplines

• Infrastructure and critical mass

Communication

• Read your email regularly– We will use your student email address,

so if you use a different one or change it, you MUST let Student Services know

– Deadlines downloaded into your calendar, so you will receive reminders

– No excuse for not reading your email

• Check the CCS Honours website– http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/edu

cation/current-honours.html

BSc (Hons) vs BMS (Hons)

• 2 parallel but distinct courses

• Both courses are well aligned but there are slight differences – don’t panic if one of your fellow students is doing something that you are not!!

Unit guide

• BSc Honours Students:– The CCS Honours Handbook is your official

unit guide

• BMS Honours Students: – Different handbook that you should now have

– You will still find the CCS Honours handbook useful, but it isn’t your official unit guide

Two Honours Streams at CCS

• Immunology (IMM) and Human Pathology (HP)• Students divided between the two streams

– IMM = Margaret Hibbs• Immunology, Burnet, Hudson, Neuroscience, Diabetes

– HP = Justin Hamilton• ACBD, Baker, Surgery, MAPRc, PMCC, MSHC, ID

• This is an administrative split ONLY

• Students in both streams will conduct coursework together, certain oral assessment tasks may occur separately

The Honours Year Course Structure

• Comprised of 2 units:

• BMH4100 (BMS4100 for BMS)– 75% of your total Honours mark

– Relates to your research • Lit review, thesis & research seminar

• BMH4200 (BMS4200 for BMS)– 25% of your total Honours mark

– Relates to theory subjects• Three coursework components

BMH4100 (BMS4100 for BMS)75% of your total Honours mark

• Lit review (7.5% of total Honours mark)

• Lit review seminar (not formally marked)

• Thesis (60% of total Honours mark)

• Final seminar (7.5% of total mark)

• Oral thesis defence (not formally marked but your thesis mark can get adjusted up or down based on your performance)

BMH4200 (BMS4200 for BMS)25% of your total Honours mark

• Stats course and assignment (7.5%)

• Written critique exam (7.5%)

• Discipline-specific module (10%)

1. Stats Course

• Worth 7.5% of total Honours mark

• Starts Wed 28th Feb – 6 tutorials– Group 1: Wed 3.00-4.30 pm

– Group 2: Wed 4.30-6.00 pm**

– VENUE: Digi-Labs 144, 145, 146, 18 Innovation Walk, Clayton Campus

• Contact: Dr Joanne Ryan, SPHPM, email: [email protected]

• Assignment due Mon 30th April @ 4 pm

** likely session for CCS students

2. Paper Critique

• Worth 7.5% of total Honours mark– exam format; unrelated to research project

• Several articles on different research topics with titles and abstracts removed

• Pick one to critique and will need to:– Provide a title that reflects the content of the article

– Write a short 200 word lay abstract for the article highlighting major findings and significance of study

– Write a critique answering designated questions

– Suggest subsequent studies that would further the research in the paper

• Practise articles on Moodle; workshop in May (for BSc)

• BSc Exam: 1.30-5.30 pm Tues 5th June for BSc @ CCS

• (BMS exam: 12.30-4.30 pm Tues 5th June @ Clayton)

3. Discipline-specific component

• Worth 10% of your total Honours mark• Technology Lecture Series

– Weekly for 6 weeks starting Thurs 15th March – flow cytometry, bioinformatics, neurobehavioural

testing, imaging, gene modification, gene delivery

• Randomly provided one of six papers utilizing one of the key technologies discussed

• Write a commentary (1,250 words + pictorial abstract) on the article – due Mon 14th May

• Details on writing commentary & preparing pictorial abstract are provided in Handbook (pages 20-21)

Your oral presentations

• Seminar 1: Lit review seminar - 10 mins plus 5 mins questions (not formally marked)

• Seminar 2: End of year research seminar -15 mins plus 5 mins questions (worth 7.5%)

• Your attendance to all sessions is compulsory• Prepare on PowerPoint

– It’s your responsibility to ensure that your presentation works and is loaded onto the computer before the session

– Keep to time

• Practise presentation skills in lab meetings

Calendar of key eventsEvent Due DateLiterature review + project outline

Thursday 12th April at 4 pm

Seminar 1 Fri 20th, Mon 23rd, Tues 24th AprilStats Assignment Mon 30th April at 4 pmDiscipline-specific component

Written assessment: Mon 14th May at 4 pm

Written Critique Exam** Tuesday 5th June**Thesis deadline Thursday 11th Oct at 4 pmResearch seminar Mon 22nd, Tues 23rd, Thurs 25th, Fri

26th OctThesis oral defense Mon 29th, Tues 30th, Wed 31st Oct,

Thurs 1st Nov

** Different times and venues for BSc(Hons) vs BMS(Hons)

• Finding information for your lit review– Mon 26th Feb: 9-10.30 am (same venue as today)

• Introduction to endnote**– Mon 26th Feb: 1.30-3.00 pm (same venue as today)

– **Bring your Laptop with endnote installed & running

• Lit review writing class– Mon 26th Feb: 3-4.30 pm (same venue as today)

Literature review sessions

Thesis write up #1• Introduction - (10%)

– Shorter (modified) version of literature review– Be critical, Reference key literature– Don’t gloss over controversies and discrepancies– Since this has already been marked once, be sure to

incorporate the suggestions of your examiners

• Methods – (10%)– Clear justification and explanation of all methods used– Include statistical methods used to analyse data

• Results – (40%)– It is definitely possible to get an H1 with negative

results (we want to see logic…A did not work, therefore we tried B….)

– Figure legends should be understandable without reference to the text

– Use appropriate statistical tests to analyse your data– Don’t discuss results in this section

Thesis write up #2• Discussion - heavily weighted (30%)

– Be critical of your own work– Relate your work to the literature, put into context– What would you do next?

• Organisation & Presentation (10%)– These should be easy marks– Check layout & general presentation, quality of figures,

ensure that there are no typos or grammatical errors

• Must be YOUR work • Follow rubric (pp 36-39) to see what the

examiners are looking for• Start early

– A good place to start is the methods– Suggest you finish lab work one month before your

thesis is due

What is the supervisor’s role in writing the thesis?

• They can read it ONCE and only once– By all means plan & discuss it extensively

• They must only comment on a printed version– They cannot use track changes

• Their comments must be scientific in nature– They can’t rewrite it and correct syntax etc

• If you have two supervisors, both must comment on the same version

• You can’t pass it around the lab….

This is your first year as a professional…

• The purpose of the lab is not to host Honours students…..

• You can expect close supervision but you can’t expect to be everyone’s #1 priority

• It is fair and reasonable to make some contribution to the lab– Ordering, organising, making

communal reagents

• Keep professional hours…• Contact supervisor if ill

If you have problems…..?

1. Ideally your supervisor is your first port of call

2. Justin and I are here to help – drop us an email - subject Honours

• Come and see us before there is a crisis

3. Highlight problems early (no use complaining to us about poor supervision in October!!)

4. There are alternative sources of pastoral care: e.g. Julie McMullen (Baker IDI), Raffi Gugasyan (Burnet), Mark Hedger (Hudson), etc. (refer to page 11 of handbook)

Have a great year!!




MH



12:00pm-12:15pm Group Shot Julia Veitch

12:15pm-1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm-1:10pm

Monash Micro Imaging @ AMREP JH

Flow cytometry @ AMREP JH

Animal Facility – PAC & MICU @ AMREP Introduction

JH


1:20pm-1:30pm Library Skills and workshops PP


Venue: Tute Room 6, Level 5, Alfred CentreJulia Veitch

Panel discussion with recent honours and current PhD students experiences




MH





1:00pm-1:10pm




JH








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1:00pm-1:10pm




JH





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WHICH FACILITY?

Facility/Department Monash Micro Imaging @ AMREP

Summary of the Facility’s capabilities

Advanced microscopy.Confocal, Super Resolution.Fluorescence based imaging.Time-Lapse live cell imaging

Key contact person (email id/phone number)

Stephen [email protected]: 9903 0142

Any induction processes a new user needs to undertake in order to gain access the facility

MMI @ Monash have decades of experience with imaging. Take advantage!Please contact us so that we maydiscuss and plan your experiments. Imaging is VERY time consuming, don’t leave it until the last couple of months, plan early.


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Contact Details of key staff in your facility

From Left: Stephen Cody, Betty Kouskousis, Iska Carmichael

and Catherine Palmer

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WHICH FACILITY?

Facility/Department AMREP Flow Cytometry Core Facility


Flow Cytometry instrument based cell analysis and cell sorting

Key contact person (email id/phone number)

Mr. Geza Paukovics – AMREPFlowCore Facility Manager ([email protected])([email protected])9282 2246 (desk)9903 0601 (lab)


Please follow induction-licensing steps as outlined on our AMREPFlowwebsite:https://www.amrepflow.org.au/https://www.amrepflow.org.au/licensing-steps/introduction-to-the-training-at-amrepflow



https://www.amrepflow.org.au/

https://www.amrepflow.org.au/licensing-steps/introduction-to-the-training-at-amrepflow

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Contact Details of key staff in your facility

Mr. Geza Paukovics – AMREPFlowCore Facility Manager

[email protected]@burnet.edu.au

Mrs. Eva Orlowski-Oliver –AMREPFlow Core Facility Co-Manager


Dr. Magdaline Costa – AMREPFlowCore Facility Co-Manager





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WHICH FACILITY?

Facility/Department Animal Facility (AMREP AS)


AAS - Policies, procedures and activities in accordance with relevant legislation and governance

Production, Care and husbandry of Animals used in approved Animal ethics proceduresAnimal Welfare mattersTechnical training and surgical assistanceSupport with AEC applicationsTraining

Key contact person (email id/phone number) General Manager [email protected] 8532 1484

Operations Manager Experimental/Facilities [email protected] 8532 1400

Veterinary [email protected] 8532 1225


Guided tour of the specific areas (PAC , M,ICU) The induction process comprises of four components :1. Submission of a request for induction 2. A guided tour of the facility.3. A hands on training session within the facility.4. An online Training ModuleOnly after all components are successfully completed will a security access form be issued for a Proxy card to enable entry to the animal house, as well as access to an online animal and service order system including access to AEC submissionsystem known as EthicsAppOrder.




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Contact Details of key staff at AMREP AS Pty LtdGeneral ManagerDebbie Ramsey

[email protected]

Operations Manager David Spiteri

[email protected]

Veterinary Fenella Long

[email protected]

Experimental Floor coordinator Belinda Henderson

[email protected]

Breeding Floor coordinatorLeanne McNiff

[email protected]

Inductions / AdminRajani Jasti

[email protected]

M,ICU ManagerSteve Comber

[email protected]




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Welcome to Honours 2018!! - Monash University · • BSc Exam: 1.30-5.30 pm Tues 5th June for BSc @ CCS • (BMS exam: 12.30-4.30 pm Tues 5th June @ Clayton) 3. Discipline-specific