• geneticsdevbio.stanford.edu

Apr

2021

• Academic postdoc and faculty track 
• Biotechnology and startups
• Biotech patent law 

Scientific, social, and ethical aspects of human-nonhuman chimeras

(discussion with Hiromitsu Nakauchi)

• Revisiting the Flight of Icarus: Making Human Organs from PSCs with Large Animal Chimeras”  (Rashid 2014)

• UK Academy of Medical Sciences Report

• COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, CA” (Bendavid  2020)
• Questions about recruiting, methodology, funding, and objectivity of COVID study https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-coronavirus-neeleman-ioannidis-whistleblower https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-coronavirus-study-bhattacharya-email

• Pro:  “One Day Sooner” 
• Con: "For now, it's unethical” (Khan, 2020)
• WHO recommendations
• Survey of our training faculty & students

• "50 years of J.R. Platt’s Strong Inference” (Fudge, 2014)

Nov

2020  

• Advice from faculty and Dean of Graduate Studies
• Article by Ben Barres

Oct 2020

• Essay by John Thompson
• Survey of advice from our own students, alumni and training faculty

Jason Buenrostro:   Alumni, Harvard 

• Buenrostro Lab
• Networking
• Career Path
• Q&A

Apr. 2020

What is a robust scientific result? 

• Problem solving skills
• Reproducibility
• Be Rigorous And Transparent
• Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice

Mar. 2020

Ethics and Urgency in Emerging Epidemics

• Genomics-based discussions of coronoviral  transmission
• Ethics discussion

Feb. 2020

Power analysis in design and interpretation of experiments

• Useful website for simple calculations
• Practical example from recent genetics/dev bio literature

Jan. 2020

Extreme Biology

• Symposium

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

"Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories"

Mar. 2019

Choosing a thesis lab

• Schuldiner, "Choosing a thesis lab",
• IDP forms for guided thinking

Feb. 2019

Maintaining laboratory notebooks

• "NIH record keeping guidelines "(Intramural).
• "Keeping a lab notebook: Principles and Best practices" webinar.
• "Pocket Guide to Electronic Notebooks"

Dec. 2018

Ethics and human germline editing

• National Academy Consensus Study (2017)
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report (2018)
• Consent forms from Jiankui He human trial

Nov. 2018

Choosing a model organism

• "Why the fly?"
• "Biologists search for new model organisms"
• "Non-model model organisms"

Oct. 2018

How to succeed in graduate school

Thompson, "On being a successful graduate student in the sciences"