The New PI Sets Up a Lab

Unstable cliffs This blog post has been brewing in my head for several months. I've been reticent because as a rule I try to be very...

The rules for the "year in review" post are simple: -Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of...

I have written a lot about my confusion in defining my identity as a new PI. I work on a couple of different things and in both cases these ...

Sometimes insecurity and impostor syndrome work to your detriment. When I started approaching the new NIH biosketch Contribution to Science ...

My first R01 submission is now complete (review, summary statements and PO discussion) and I am entering resubmission mode. As I start think...

A guest post from PharmaFriend about a day in her life in big pharma medical communication, aka marketing (Sunday 11/8).  BTW, this was her...

A few weeks ago I launched this challenge to blog a day in the life of a new (or not so new) academic lab head ( here ), so that new PIs wou...

Jan Bruegel the Elder - Landscape of Paradise and Loading of the Animals on the Ark I wish things were as simple as Dr. Jon Lorsch, dir...

This past year I was part of a mentoring program for female postdocs at a neighboring institution, when I met with my mentee every month to ...

I launched the "day in the life of a new PI" challenge a few weeks ago to see what the days of principal investigators are like at...

A couple of weeks ago I suggested a series of posts based on "a day in the life of a newish PI" . The array of BS and of random th...

In following the discussion between Jean-Francois Gariepy and Potnia Theron this week I find myself somewhat in the middle. Briefly, Gariep...

What have I done?! In a week my lab will grow to 9 people...I'm medium-sized. — The New PI (@TheNewPI) September 2, 2015 I have tak...

As a trainee I always wondered what my PI was doing cooped up on her/his office and when I became a PI myself I was shocked by the endless l...

At an NHLBI K-to-R01 meeting speaker is quoting @TheNewPI @drugmonkeyblog and others who provide great advice for new investigators. — ...