Professional Skills in Graduate School and Beyond
All students supported by the training grant meet at 5 pm on the 2nd Thursday of each month to discuss a variety of professional development topics with faculty over pizza. Examples of recent topics and associated resources are shown below.
Date | Topic | Readings and Resources |
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May 2021 | Student feedback, suggestions, and GENETICSDEVBIO_T32 research day planning | |
Apr 2021 |
What can you do with your science PhD? (discussion and examples with Genetics & DevBio training program alumni Yuya Kobayashi and Kyle Gurley ) |
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Mar 2021 | Scientific, social, and ethical aspects of human-nonhuman chimeras (discussion with Hiromitsu Nakauchi) |
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Feb 2021 | Rigor, bias, authorship, and funding debate following Stanford COVID seroprevalence study |
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Jan 2021 | Ethics of vaccine challenge trials |
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Dec 2020 | Why do some fields (and projects) make more progress than others? | |
Nov 2020 |
How to pick a graduate advisor |
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Oct 2020 |
Being a successful graduate student in the sciences |
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May 2020 | Jason Buenrostro: Alumni, Harvard |
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Apr. 2020 |
What is a robust scientific result?
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Mar. 2020 |
Ethics and Urgency in Emerging Epidemics |
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Feb. 2020 |
Power analysis in design and interpretation of experiments
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Jan. 2020 |
Extreme Biology |
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Dec. 2019 |
Should we sequence everything? |
"The Earth BioGenome project: sequencing life for the future of life" |
Nov. 2019 |
On becoming a better scientist |
"Cynical and acynical advice for graduate students", from Stearns and Huey. |
Oct. 2019 |
"Extreme Biology" planning |
Symposium flyer, schedule, and website. |
May 2019 |
Planning a scientific symposium |
Topic and speaker discussion. |
Apr. 2019 |
Authorship standards and case studies |
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Mar. 2019 |
Choosing a thesis lab |
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Feb. 2019 |
Maintaining laboratory notebooks |
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Dec. 2018 |
Ethics and human germline editing |
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Nov. 2018 |
Choosing a model organism |
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Oct. 2018 |
How to succeed in graduate school |
Thompson, "On being a successful graduate student in the sciences" |