This goal discusses how to Evaluate and interpret data in scientific literature and other sources. Honestly speaking I use to strongly dislike having to read scholarly journal articles because they were too complicated and too wordy. However, I do not think I have properly been able to read and analyze a scientific literature properly until last semester. The class that I believe helped me read a literature review the best is BIOL 360. This course discussed developmental biology and how a cell is developed, not just in humans but in other animals as well. In this class we have this presentation called DBiN which stood for “developmental biology in the news. We had to pic a scientific literature that had to do with developmental biology then had to make a powerpoint of it and present it to the class. A topic that I chose was on how gut microbial taxa elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function. This basically meant that sugary drinks can lower memory function due to a bacteria that has been recently found in the gastronomical tract. This presentation went very well. I was able to analysis and simplify the authors methods in the presentation and accurately displace their graphs and talked about the graphs in normal terminology. Another thing I believe I did really well was also tie in the authors main message with future questions that would get my peers thinking about potential research since how the gut affects the brain is currently a hot topic in developmental biology. I believe that doing presentations like these really helped me read scientific literature. Currently this semester I had to do the same in my BIOL 488 class where we had to make presentations that tied into climate change. The title of the scientific literature was “unexpected proteome plasticity in response to persistent temperature rise”. One thing I did very well was be able to break own the title for people that are scientist but are not really that big on molecular science. The title i rearranged it to was the unexpected change of structure in a set of proteins in response to persistent temperature rise. This title made it a lot easier fro my peers to understand. What I did better on this presentation was be able to say what previous studies said on this topic. I was able to use my knowledge on proteins to talk thru a protein diagram and break it down for my peers. I was able to accurately walk through the methods and explain their findings. I did what I did last time and was able to inform the students what future questions are left to be answered from this study that they could possibly do. Now that I have been able to gain this skill I have used it for a lot of things. For example, I am doing research with Dr. Shanle and she had me read a literature review and I made a powerpoint of the literature which helped me interpret the data in the scientific literature.