...choose to start their own academic research laboratory. How does one even go about starting a lab? Obviously...effective working environment? Tom Ellis was offered a start-up package that included a postdoc and a PhD student...important to me to be with them in the lab when they started, so that we could discuss our projects and ideas... in hiring graduate students and postdocs when starting out. She advises “do not hurry to staff up the...” If you've already secured a faculty position, start studying up before you begin the hiring process....research staff. And for a more indepth resource for starting your academic lab, download Science Careers' "...translation of results to companies.” Take home message Starting a lab can be a challenging process. Each PI emphasizes...

...professors, and other mentors, and four years after I started college, I will be entering a PhD program to continue...what we want to do in the future. How do I get started with research? I had no idea what my scientific... lot of career resources on Science Twitter. I started by making an account, following interesting people... your mind about what exactly you want to do—I started college thinking that I had to pick a few things... Patrick Hsu’s lab at UC Berkeley. She will be starting her PhD at UC Berkeley in Microbiology in fall...

...If the unknown sample’s measurement is too high, start with a higher concentration of standard or make ...

...the resources. Instead of creating a start up budget, create a start up list.  In this post we’ll help you...most start-up P.I.’s. It doesn’t have to be complicated, or difficult to create this list. Start BEFORE... much do you need to start your lab”. You can respond by saying, “The exact start up costs may vary greatly...Consulting, Inc. “How much do you need [for your lab start up]?” A hiring chair or dean will often ask a faculty...leads to poor outcomes; not enough funds to get started, wasting funds on unnecessary materials, or even... you successfully negotiate a start up award by giving you step by step instructions on creating a budget... in regards to the budget. Creating a budget We start by using your research specific aims. This is actually...

... the standard academic calendar. So you want to start a journal club? Here are some things to think about... The first thing to do if you’ve thought about starting a journal club is to find a topic and seeing if...clear purpose and effective time management, for starters.  Now, you are ready for your first journal club...primary drivers of frequency. At Addgene, we opted to start with one per month. When to call it a day The most...information described above you feel empowered to start your own journal club! Additional resources on...

...chromatin and want to start sharing your plasmids through Addgene, don’t hesitate to start the process! Addgene...illustrations from Leah Bury of Microscopic Art. I started thinking about this problem when I recently attended... Pederson Phil Sharp Julie Ahringer Alexander Stark Bas van Steensel Richard Young Yi Zhang Leonard...

...to a few limiting factors.  To start, the average health science startup requires a great deal more capital...the cofounder and CEO of miLab, a Boston-based startup focused on empowering early-stage scientists. You...while becoming a health science entrepreneur at 22. Start with your network You've spent your life making ...the feedback we received from our network.  We started with the idea of a biotechnology investment fund...backgrounds (an essential component to any successful startup management team). Sreyan is a research associate... The world is against you.  As I mentioned, you start at a disadvantage in the health science space if...blog Read our recent post on Synbio start up Revbio  ...

...good ideas to a SynBio startup At some point, our ideas got pretty good. We started doing extracurricular...co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering.  Last year we started a company. Revolution Bioengineering is two responsible...postdoc in order to rebuild my resume, so I had started to entertain other options. Keira had it a little...and dissected with equal enthusiasm. It may have started as idle conversation to pass the time in a job ..., not a full-blown career, but it was enough to start us down the entrepreneurial path. We threw some ...some of our own money at this business and started things up for real: bank account, business cards, incorporation... synbio startup...

...three-part series. We’ll first discuss how to get started on fly work in this post. The second post will ...the bees when it comes to fruit flies Drosophila start life as fertilized eggs that develop into embryos... visible dark spot. Pupae begin eclosion at the start of the day and throughout daytime. They mostly stop...females for that. Now you have the basic knowledge to start working with flies. Like Addgene, the Drosophila...study. 5 great resources to help get your fly work started If you’ve never worked with fruit flies before...tutorials under the help tab like this one to get you started. Any given gene’s webpage will have information...balancer chromosomes to use. If you’re not ready to start working with live animals yet, Harvard’s DRSC/TRiP...

...Development & Operations. Starting a biotech company When and how does a startup become "successful"? First...all stages in the startup". To gain insight into "the random-walk" of a budding startup, I asked Mike to...occasionally pondered translating my research into a startup company. However, like many like-minded people,...company. Transitioning an idea from academia to a startup Mike Koeris and fellow co-founders Tim Lu and others...succesful entrepreneur? As a co-founder of a biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from...was unable to secure enough money to sustain a startup, he went to work for Flagship Ventures – a local...still could not remove himself from the idea of starting a company around engineered bacteriophages. He...

...informative introduction for those who are just starting their careers in the lab and even those who might...

...interview The STAR interview method is a popular way to answer behavioral interview questions. STAR stands for... describe all four parts of a STAR answer once the interview has started. Instead, I preferred to prepare...Story telling shares many of the same elements as a STAR answer: a setting, a conflict, and a resolution....which is something not inherently captured by the STAR method. I like to think of the theme of my interview...was my experience not long ago. I just recently started working in the pharmaceuticals industry after earning...several individual and/or small groups, usually starting with the hiring manager. These interviews lasted...resumes are like cliff notes, so I use these as a starting place for drafting my stories. In total, I prepare...

...knockouts.   Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) which is the remake of the space-melodrama Star Trek II: The...were exploring were space and robots. Warping to stars in space ships and the rise of killer machines that...Released in 1997, GATTACA is an American SciFi film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law. The movie...novel, Inferno (2013) and the movie version (2016) stars Tom Hanks as the protagonist (Langdon). The plot...engineering in the recent SciFi movies. Rampage (2018), starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, calls out CRISPR as...

.... Other Resources Check out the Top 50 Science Stars on Twitter Want suggestions on how to use social...don’t use Twitter, are you interested in getting started? Reply in the comments below or tweet us your reply...

...example, I am not that interested in meeting movie stars, but when I met the astronaut Jim Lovell I was speechless...whiteboard. The final image is pictured here…she started from a blank white slate and developed this over...paper in Science.  Interestingly, this project started with their labs studying the mechanisms of RNAi...

...all seems lost in the War of Light, Look to the stars –                                     -for HOPE ... in the mall. I took action, joined a gym, and started running on a treadmill. After being with the company...treatments, if available. As part of the team, I started adding mile after mile on my poor, poor legs. ...

...for all of us.” This is a classic example of the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) interview technique...conclusion. Advice for Telling a Good Story Start at the start Any good story needs a solid point to kick...at. Whatever you’re working on, start wherever it makes sense to start and try to be as chronological ...author. When I raised this, he was pretty angry and started arguing with me. First I calmed the situation down...and engage with and what parts you can leave out. Start viewing your work in the form of a story, and you...telling it. End at the end A story needs a good start point and it needs a good end point. One thematically...