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This course will seek to train graduate students in the fundamentals and art of understanding and determining the quality and structure of scientific publications. Students will select publications for presentation. Papers will be carefully read and scrutinized for detail of experimental background and logic, experimental approach and methods, results, figure composition and presentation, and interpretation. Students, with advice from a faculty mentor, will prepare and present to an audience a PowerPoint presentation on the selected paper. The course is open to all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.