Graduate school
- Year 1
- Find a lab with healthy environment
- Take required courses
- Shadow a senior student / postdoc
- Explore scientific questions and directions in the lab
- Learn to read academic publications
- Learn techniques
- Get some data, good or bad, pos or neg
- Mess around and have fun with colleagues
- Year 2
- Take required courses
- Experiments may not work but keep messing up
- Continue to learn techniques
- Get good at reading papers
- Year 3
- Find which direction will work
- Master techniques
- Get really good at reading papers
- Bring new ideas to your PI
- Present at meetings
- Year 4
- Have an idea of what kind of paper your project is going to yield
- Get real data
- Be your own boss
- Present at meetings
- Have an idea of what you want to do after graduation
- If applicable, do interns in summer
- Year 5-6
- Give talks at meetings
- Write your paper
- Send papers out
- Find next position (industry or postdoc interview)
- Get dissertation done
- Get yourself out of the lab ASAP
Post-doctoral
- Year 1
- Write a review
- Learn techniques
- Yield preliminary data
- Year 2
- Know what’s ahead of you and determine if to leave academia after this
- Collaborate on other projects
- Get real data so that you know what to chase for
- Year 3-4
- Write paper
- Submit paper
- Apply for K99
- Resubmit K99 application
- Year 4-5
TBD
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