The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Some more fun in the lab after all the management posts. The other day after filling my undergrad's USB drive with confocal images, I...

Socrates teaching (detail: Raffaello Sanzio, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome) A few nights ago at dinner, a friend brough...

Daniel Pink has been popping up everywhere around me, not only during a recent management class, but also in casual conversation with a fr...

The K99/R00 award from the NIH can be elusive, but if you get one it can help enormously in getting you a job. It certainly he...

OK, this may be fluff, but it proves that we all need fluff and that it makes us better scientists. I have always wondered why baby animals...

Who's Got the Monkey is an eye-opener and after reading it, I was not surprised it is one most popular reprints from the Harvard Bu...

Hi, I'm starting my own lab in a few months and I find this to be a very exciting and terrifying time. Exciting because after years a...