Question regarding research experience section.

[wwh221]

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Hey SDN!

I took a 2-quarter long microbiology lab course which involved research of which the professor did not know the outcome, and our results were presented through a poster symposium at the end of the second quarter.

In the class, we were taught research techniques and then applied them in characterizing the microbiome of the soil environment of a plant we chose from the school's botanical garden, including plants that had minimal research on record. (This was applicable to our plant)

Even though it is a course rather than extracurricular research, would you guys recommend I include this class as part of "research experience"?

 

[Paperclipz]

You can put it down as research since you went to a symposium to present your work. Add the professor as your mentor and discuss what the research was about on the application and what you did.

 

[518590]

sounds more like a course to me!

 

[kellyyo]

ye is more like a lab. I have similar things for my ecology and evolution class......

 

[SicEm]

Hey SDN!

I took a 2-quarter long microbiology lab course which involved research of which the professor did not know the outcome, and our results were presented through a poster symposium at the end of the second quarter.

In the class, we were taught research techniques and then applied them in characterizing the microbiome of the soil environment of a plant we chose from the school's botanical garden, including plants that had minimal research on record. (This was applicable to our plant)

Even though it is a course rather than extracurricular research, would you guys recommend I include this class as part of "research experience"?

Personally, I think this is just a lab course. We did something like this in two of my classes (did research on something which the professor did not know the outcome of.) I did independent research for a PI at our school and then worked in a research lab after I graduated and I think they were very different experiences than the classroom setting. I don't think you would get into trouble putting it under extracurricular research because you could probably argue your case, but it might look like you're kind of grasping at straws a bit.

 

[shootingstar7]

Personally, I think this is just a lab course. We did something like this in two of my classes (did research on something which the professor did not know the outcome of.) I did independent research for a PI at our school and then worked in a research lab after I graduated and I think they were very different experiences than the classroom setting. I don't think you would get into trouble putting it under extracurricular research because you could probably argue your case, but it might look like you're kind of grasping at straws a bit.

Maybe you could add the poster presentation as an extra curricular but leave the research section empty.