Duration
5w Internship
Number of credits
| Master in bio-informatics and modelling, research focus | 7 crédits |
Lecturer
Denis Baurain, François Beaufay, Frédéric Bouché, Alain Brans, Pierre Cardol, Franck Dequiedt, Emmanuel Di Valentin, Mireille Dumoulin, Grégory Fettweis, Moreno Galleni, Marc Hanikenne, Stéphanie Herkenne, Frédéric Kerff, Marielle Lebrun, Sylvie Legrand, André Matagne, Patrick Meyer, Johan Michaux, Patrick Motte, Bernard Peers, Claire Périlleux, Claire Remacle, Sébastien Rigali, Catherine Sadzot, Ingrid Struman, Mohammed Terrak, Nicolas Thelen, Marc Thiry, Pierre Tocquin, Marylène Vandevenne, Marianne Voz, Annick Wilmotte
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
At the end of Block 1, students enrolled in Block 1 of the Master BIM must complete a 5-week internship for a total of 7 credits. This internship must be carried out in one of the Life Sciences Department's laboratories, under the supervision of a promoter from the BIM Master's teaching staff (internship supervisor). Day-to-day supervision may be entrusted to non-teaching staff (e.g. a PhD student from the host laboratory).
For most students, the internship is organised in Q2. The themes that are proposed by the teaching staff are grouped together in a file that is made available to the students at the beginning of Q2. Students' preferences regarding these proposals (3 choices) must be sent to the internship coordinator (Prof. Denis Baurain) within the following two weeks. The host laboratories are then allocated no later than one month before the start of the internships, using an algorithm that attempts to satisfy everyone as best as possible.
In some cases, the internship is organised in Q1 and the student is in charge of finding a suitable host laboratory. If this occurs during the same academic year as the Master thesis (SMEM0023), the internship can not be done in the same host laboratory.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The objective of the internships is to allow students to work in research laboratories and to confront them to experimental realities under the guidance of a supervisor.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The courses will draw on the concepts covered in the Bac Bio and all the BIM Master's toolboxes and thematic modules.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The laboratory internship is not a mini-thesis. It provides an opportunity to experience the life of a researcher. As it is limited to 5 weeks, its scientific ambition remains limited.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face in one of the department's laboratories or with a BIM Master's teacher.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Each internship resorts to a specific scientific theme of the host laboratory and therefore to a specific bibliographic framework.
Information relating to internships (e.g. list of teachers' proposals, form for students' preferences, allocation of host laboratories to students) will be made available on eCampus.
Written work / report
Other : oral defence at the end of the internship
Further information:
The mark for the course is made up of :
- a mark for the laboratory work, including the keeping of a laboratory notebook (50%, awarded by the promoter)
- a mark for the internship report (25%, awarded by the promoter)
- a mark for the oral presentation and defence (25%, awarded by the teachers present at the presentation)
The report must contain the following elements:
- A title and an abstract.
- An introduction,
- The aim(s) of the work,
- A "Materials and Methods" section,
- The main results
- A discussion section
- A bibliography allowing the references cited to be found (full references with titles of the articles cited).
- Appendices may be added to the report.
For Q2 internships, the defences will take place on the last day of the internship, while for Q1 internships, they will take place no later than the last week of the term.
Written reports will be submitted to the promoters no later than two weeks after the end of the internship, regardless of the term (i.e. either after or before the oral defence, depending on the case).
Work placement(s)
Laboratory internship.
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The internship cannot be taken/evaluated more than once a year.
Contacts
Course coordinator :
Prof. Denis Baurain
Tél. 04/366.38.64
e-mail : denis.baurain@uliege.be
Administrative aspects :
Ms Stéphanie Hanson
Tel. 04/366.38.02
e-mail: s.hanson@uliege.be