Sommersemester

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The scientific questions addressed by laboratories on the TUM campus or at external research facilities hosting our master students for the research internship deal with nutrition-related research, either on the fundamental or applied level, using biochemistry, molecular biology, nutrition physiology, metabolism, microbiology, food chemistry, nutrition medicine, genetics, clinical studies, epidemiology and public health. The internship is the first opportunity for our students to apply their theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during the first two semesters to a specific research question in the framework of a project in the host laboratory.

Module Research Methods, Module Basics in Computational Biology, Module Integrated Lab Course

The internship is composed of three elements with theoretical and practical aspects: Phase 1-Developing and planning of a scientific project, Phase 2- Implementation of a research plan devised in Phase 1, and Phase 3– writing a scientific report about the research project. In the practical course, students are trained to identify and specify a selected basic or applied research problem related to nutrition science and biomedicine. The research internship embeds in a defined research context at the respective chair hosting the student. High intensity supervision of
students by experienced scientific personnel supports the training success. Students document their research work in a dedicated lab notebook, with a focus on detailed description of applied methodologies, data acquisition and data analyses. They report to their supervisor on the progress of their work in regular meetings (examination colloquium) and summarize the goals of their research project and the main findings in short oral presentations, using PowerPoint or equivalent presentation tools. Within this setting, the project progress is discussed and plans to further develop the project in the given time frame are developed.