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This is a journal club course where each student is required to present on an original scientific publication. Th student is mentored by a postdoctoral fellow in that area of research on the Science. The student is also coached on how to make slides, how to present in a rigorous and scientific manner. Students are also required to ask and answer questions about each paper so that class participation is also a major component of the training. A goal of the course is to expose students to a broad range of scientific topics and technologies and to develop in them the ability to rigorously evaluate them. A second goal is to have students learn presentation skills ranging from figure making to story telling to answering difficult questions. A third goal is to train students in asking rigorous questions in a professional manner.