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Students are required to attend all Physiology Department Seminars, which will be posted throughout the department. Also, students are required to attend 12 luncheons with seminar speakers. For six of the seminars, the students will be required to read a relevant paper from the speaker’s lab prior to the seminar (a relevant paper can be found by searching the web). After the seminar, students will write and submit a 1 page (12 point, Times New Roman) document describing 1 or 2 “next experiments”, which significantly extend or otherwise enhance the findings of a part of the seminar they attended. (Dr. Steven Claypool will review the 1st seminar summary for formatting.) The objective of this exercise is to go beyond understanding the work that was presented by the speaker, and encourage students to think about gaps in knowledge, formulate the next important questions, and design experiments that move a field forward. Grades will be based upon attendance (50%) and the summaries (50%).