The New PI Sets Up a Lab

It's that time of the year again!! As the year draws to a close it is time to get organized for annual performance reviews of your lab ...

Starting a lab is sometimes a lonely pursuit. You are now in charge of everything and must have the final say on papers and grants that go ...

We would like to run agarose gels without ethidium bromide to avoid the need of dealing with toxic waste and to reduce the use of dangerous...

Have you ever tried to google when a study section meets or when to expect an answer back?  While this is easy to find out for the NIH, it...

Caspar David Friedrich - Der Monch am Meer (detail) I have been quiet for a while because I did not know what to say. Six months ago, t...

A friend forwarded a recent Harvard Business Review article about why incompetent men get promoted and competent women remain unnoticed ,...

Starting a lab means that you get to establish culture and workflow, which I have previously discussed here , and one of the main problems ...

Just got a note from the NIH Office for Extramural research that the NIH released a notice ( NOT-OD-13-093 ) promoting the implementation ...

I just went through the month-long process of hiring a first research assistant for my new lab. If navigating the posting of a position thr...

I do not have much time to read for pleasure, but before a long flight I finally managed to pick up a copy of The Emperor of All Maladies ,...

I need to hire a Research Assistant either with a very specific attitude or set of skills, so I wrote a somewhat detailed job description a...

I am an avid shopper and I love nice things, but as a grad student and postdoc I didn't have much money, so I've become an expert ...

A friend recently posted a great article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on " Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career ", whic...

I have written a lot of about management and grants and lab equipment, but I have not written much about science. I was trying to keep the ...

I am still not sure whether this is going to be a good review or a bad review. It may shake out one way or another as I write it. We do a...