Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m.
... becoming a PI?
Tom Ellis has a one word answer: “Email. Nothing prepared me for what a PI without a personal...and goals? We continue our conversation with three PIs who have successfully built their own labs.
How did...also recommends to seek out advice from seasoned PIs who can offer support. “It is an exciting and emotional...the copious amounts of email are probably because a PI does 7 or 8 jobs: “a teacher, departmental administrator...sets she needed to acquire as a professor. “Being a PI is more than just experiments and grant writing. ...enjoy the mentoring role.” She points out that new PIs may not recognize that every graduate student or ...emailing us his worldly advice”, the other was “a young PI who was in the lab with us every day and in the pub...