Research Training I

Research Training I

Coordinators
Ilda Santos Sanches
Lígia O. Martins
Margarida Archer
Alice Pereira

Objectives
The aim is to provide students with a direct contact with researchers and other team members of the chosen laboratories (up to three laboratories from those associated with the Program) to get acquainted with the scientific problems, associated methodologies and laboratorial practices in different research areas. It is expected that these internships will help the students in the process of choosing the research areas or laboratories to continue their PhD studies.

Syllabus
In this curricular unit students will perform up to 3 short-term laboratory internships, one week each. During these lab rotations students will get acquainted with routines of the chosen laboratories and will have a direct contact with other students and researchers from different scientific areas in a laboratory environment. The students may also have the opportunity to attend group meetings and other institutional seminars. This will provide a chance for discussing both theoretical and practical aspects, reading specific scientific literature, thinking on new ideas or experimental approaches have contact with new equipment and perform some experimental work.

Evaluation
A list of  laboratories available for the internships will be provided to the students at the beginning of the doctoral course. After the necessary arrangements with the host lab and approval by the coordinators, the internships will be supervised through a tutorial regimen by the head and researchers of the host lab.
There will be a continuous evaluation system based on the students’ performance and attitude in the lab, the knowledge acquired during the lab rotations and the understanding about the specific subject they worked with. At the end of the semester, the students will write a short report describing the internship.

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