复旦大学新视野系列研究生课程：科研论文的构思、撰写和发表
怎样做一个好研究生
教育部长江学者奖励计划讲座教授
复旦大学生命科学学院院长
金 力
人类分子遗传学家, 教育部, 长江学者奖励计划, 讲座教授, 复
旦大学生命科学学院院长 。 1985年复旦大学生物系遗传专业本科毕业,
1987年复旦大学遗传学专业硕士毕业, 1994年获德克萨斯大学遗传学
博士学位, 1994年至 1996年在美国斯坦福大学医学院从事博士后研究 。
曾任德克萨斯大学助理教授, 副教授, 辛辛那提大学医学院教授 。 现
兼任中科院 -马普计算生物学伙伴研究所所长, 国家人类基因组南方
研究中心副主任,, 973”项目首席科学家,, 人类基因组学, 杂志主
编和, 人类生物学,,, 突变研究, 等杂志的编委等职务 。 金力教授
近年来在复旦大学主持的进化遗传学研究揭示了, 东亚现代人的非洲
起源, 和, 汉族藏缅民族的同源关系,, 论文发表在, Nature》,
,Science,和, Am,J,Hum,Genet,等国际学术刊物上 。
金力教授简介
9月 27日（周二；晚 6:30） 秦伯益院士
10月 10日（周一；下午 2:00）韩珉教授
科研论文的构思、撰写和发表课讲座预告：
How to be a good graduate
student?
Li Jin
Fudan University/CAS-MPG
Institute of Computational Biology
What should be the goals?
? To receive higher education and to be
more knowledgeable
? To achieve higher social status
? To make your family proud
? To find a better job
? To be wealthy
? To make more contribution to the society
? To save the world
? To do something you really really really
really really like
Me
Society
Family
University
Professor
What does a graduate student
should achieve?
? Learn to be a good scientist
? Independent thinking
? Independent research capability
? Effective communication/presentation
? Reasonable writing skills
? Laboratory skills
? Grantsmanship,Planning,design,and budget
preparation
? People skills
? Organizing skills
What does a university/institute want?
? Tuition
? Resources from government/agency
? Labors
? Future scholars!
What does a professor want?
? Teaching is required
? ‘Cheap’ labors
? Young and active brains
? Future helpers/followers
? Future colleagues
What do I want?
? Independent researchers
? Big brains with some hands
? Better scholars
? Mature/Well-rounded
? Vision and paying attention to BBQ
? Good common sense
? Excellent logic
? Effective communicators
What is science?
? Falsifiable
? Hypothesis driven
? Identify/develop testable hypothesis
? Know the field/know the history
A Good Scientist
? Brains versus hands
? Profession versus occupation
? Maturity
? Importance of collaboration
? Resourceful
? Grantsmanship
My student career
? 81-85 Fudan undergraduate
? 85-87 Fudan graduate
? 88-90 University of Texas – CDPG
? 90-94 University of Texas – Houston
? 94-96 Stanford U
? 97- Faculty
GSBS,UT
? Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
? Founded in 1972
? 2 dozen interdisciplinary programs
? 400 faculties/<400 students
? Allow switch program freely
? Four core courses,quantitative,system,cell
biology,biochemistry/mol biol.
? Train top researchers who can survive fierce
competition
What are the lessons at UT?
? Positive
– A lot of readings/discussions/seminars
– Excellent program,Breadth and depth
– Training for faculty career
? Negative
– Not enough opportunities to interact with top
researchers
– Narrow-minded
Course work
? Core courses,didactic + research
? Core course + Specialty courses
Quality Controls
? Admission
? Course work
? Qualifying exams (written + oral)
? Defense
? Committees:
– Advisory Committee
– Exam Committee
– Supervisory Committee
What I leant at Stanford?
? Many top researchers/talents
? Excellent atmosphere
? Not well-structured,good for postdocs but
may not be good for students
Presentation
? Very very important
? Practice and training are important
? Anybody can be a good presenter
Attending meetings
? Very important and wonderful opportunity
? Don’t waste your time to do sight-seeing
? Know people and their research
? Make yourself known
? Sense the art of science and feel the
future
? Networking
Seminar
? Ask stupid questions.
? If you don’t think you are stupid,then you
are not stupid.
Writing
? One of the most important skills in
research
? Papers
? Grant proposals
How to use your supervisor
? Knowledge
? Experience
? Resource
Where are frontiers?
? Those defined by others
? Those defined by yourselves
? How to find frontiers?
How to write a good manuscript?
? Think before you write
? Prepare an outline/story line
? Fill the outline with ‘messages’
? Logic is important,good story vs bad story
? Write clearly/use short sentences
? Be explicit as much as you can
? Good discussion is important
How to be creative?
? Use your common sense
? Practice your brain
? Make mistakes and learn from it
? Jot down your thoughts (good or bad)
怎样做一个好研究生
教育部长江学者奖励计划讲座教授
复旦大学生命科学学院院长
金 力
人类分子遗传学家, 教育部, 长江学者奖励计划, 讲座教授, 复
旦大学生命科学学院院长 。 1985年复旦大学生物系遗传专业本科毕业,
1987年复旦大学遗传学专业硕士毕业, 1994年获德克萨斯大学遗传学
博士学位, 1994年至 1996年在美国斯坦福大学医学院从事博士后研究 。
曾任德克萨斯大学助理教授, 副教授, 辛辛那提大学医学院教授 。 现
兼任中科院 -马普计算生物学伙伴研究所所长, 国家人类基因组南方
研究中心副主任,, 973”项目首席科学家,, 人类基因组学, 杂志主
编和, 人类生物学,,, 突变研究, 等杂志的编委等职务 。 金力教授
近年来在复旦大学主持的进化遗传学研究揭示了, 东亚现代人的非洲
起源, 和, 汉族藏缅民族的同源关系,, 论文发表在, Nature》,
,Science,和, Am,J,Hum,Genet,等国际学术刊物上 。
金力教授简介
9月 27日（周二；晚 6:30） 秦伯益院士
10月 10日（周一；下午 2:00）韩珉教授
科研论文的构思、撰写和发表课讲座预告：
How to be a good graduate
student?
Li Jin
Fudan University/CAS-MPG
Institute of Computational Biology
What should be the goals?
? To receive higher education and to be
more knowledgeable
? To achieve higher social status
? To make your family proud
? To find a better job
? To be wealthy
? To make more contribution to the society
? To save the world
? To do something you really really really
really really like
Me
Society
Family
University
Professor
What does a graduate student
should achieve?
? Learn to be a good scientist
? Independent thinking
? Independent research capability
? Effective communication/presentation
? Reasonable writing skills
? Laboratory skills
? Grantsmanship,Planning,design,and budget
preparation
? People skills
? Organizing skills
What does a university/institute want?
? Tuition
? Resources from government/agency
? Labors
? Future scholars!
What does a professor want?
? Teaching is required
? ‘Cheap’ labors
? Young and active brains
? Future helpers/followers
? Future colleagues
What do I want?
? Independent researchers
? Big brains with some hands
? Better scholars
? Mature/Well-rounded
? Vision and paying attention to BBQ
? Good common sense
? Excellent logic
? Effective communicators
What is science?
? Falsifiable
? Hypothesis driven
? Identify/develop testable hypothesis
? Know the field/know the history
A Good Scientist
? Brains versus hands
? Profession versus occupation
? Maturity
? Importance of collaboration
? Resourceful
? Grantsmanship
My student career
? 81-85 Fudan undergraduate
? 85-87 Fudan graduate
? 88-90 University of Texas – CDPG
? 90-94 University of Texas – Houston
? 94-96 Stanford U
? 97- Faculty
GSBS,UT
? Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
? Founded in 1972
? 2 dozen interdisciplinary programs
? 400 faculties/<400 students
? Allow switch program freely
? Four core courses,quantitative,system,cell
biology,biochemistry/mol biol.
? Train top researchers who can survive fierce
competition
What are the lessons at UT?
? Positive
– A lot of readings/discussions/seminars
– Excellent program,Breadth and depth
– Training for faculty career
? Negative
– Not enough opportunities to interact with top
researchers
– Narrow-minded
Course work
? Core courses,didactic + research
? Core course + Specialty courses
Quality Controls
? Admission
? Course work
? Qualifying exams (written + oral)
? Defense
? Committees:
– Advisory Committee
– Exam Committee
– Supervisory Committee
What I leant at Stanford?
? Many top researchers/talents
? Excellent atmosphere
? Not well-structured,good for postdocs but
may not be good for students
Presentation
? Very very important
? Practice and training are important
? Anybody can be a good presenter
Attending meetings
? Very important and wonderful opportunity
? Don’t waste your time to do sight-seeing
? Know people and their research
? Make yourself known
? Sense the art of science and feel the
future
? Networking
Seminar
? Ask stupid questions.
? If you don’t think you are stupid,then you
are not stupid.
Writing
? One of the most important skills in
research
? Papers
? Grant proposals
How to use your supervisor
? Knowledge
? Experience
? Resource
Where are frontiers?
? Those defined by others
? Those defined by yourselves
? How to find frontiers?
How to write a good manuscript?
? Think before you write
? Prepare an outline/story line
? Fill the outline with ‘messages’
? Logic is important,good story vs bad story
? Write clearly/use short sentences
? Be explicit as much as you can
? Good discussion is important
How to be creative?
? Use your common sense
? Practice your brain
? Make mistakes and learn from it
? Jot down your thoughts (good or bad)
