Advice on how to do science; a collection of useful articles and manuals
Over the years, I have collected some articles and manuals that I found useful in the daily practice of running a lab, writing papers and applications. Several of these are listed below, with links to the publication. If anyone knows of additional useful publications, let me know.
Roel Nusse (updated August 2019)
Books, advice on management, running a lab
These manuals, books are very useful in setting up and running a lab
- Kathy Barker, At the Helm. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and other Cold Spring Harbor publications.
- HHMI, BWF Making the Right Moves (free PDF)
- Roberts Academic Medicine Handbook. Laura Roberts, Editor. Chapters on all aspects of academic medicine and research.
General suggestions , how to ask the right questions
- Vale, R.D. (2013). The value of asking questions. Molecular biology of the cell 24, 680-682.
- Davis, M. How to ask questions. Current Biology.
- Schwartz, M.A. (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of cell science 121, 1771.
- Alon, U. (2009). How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem. Molecular cell 35, 726-728.
- Klein, A.M., and Lande-Diner, L. (2011). The critical discussion group: fostering personal and scientific growth. Molecular cell 44, 167-169.
How to write papers
- Van Savage and Pamela Yeh Tips from a Pulitzer prizewinner, Nature October 2019
- Sanes, J.R. (2019). Tell me a story. eLife 8.
- Dant, C. (2011). Writing the Biomedical Manuscript.
- Wells, W.A. (2004). Me write pretty one day: how to write a good scientific paper. The Journal of cell biology 165, 757-758.
- Dant, C. (2011). Teaching effective writing skills at an Academic Cancer Center: Journal of cancer education 26, 208-211
How to give a talk
- McConnelll, S. How to give a talk. A slide presentation given by Sue McConnell, an award-winning Stanford teacher. A link to Sue's talk is here.
- Chua, J. (2008). Giving a Great Job Talk. ASCB NEWSLETTER.
- Advice from Eddy De Robertis on how to present.
How to write a grant/fellowship application
- Botham, C., and Evans, T. (2018). How to design a winning fellowship proposal.
- Dant, C. Writing an NIH grant.
Teaching and lectures
- Mazur, E. (2009). Farewell, Lecture? Science.
- PÉREZ-PEÑA, R. (2014). Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science. New York Times.
- Alberts, B. (2008). Considering Science Education. Science
- Bajak, A (2014) Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds. Science
- Stanford authors, How to read a scientific paper. Document used at Stanford class.
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