Practical Advice on Science and Career

Interesting Perspectives on Assorted Topics

• Life at Low Reynolds Number. Purcell, 1977. Our intuitive sense of motion does not apply in the cytoplasm - there is no inertia.

Career advice for students

• Getting Scooped
• Guide for PhD Students
• How to succeed: Guide for young scientists
• Interacting with your advisor

How to...

• How to Study (Give yourself a test)
  • Science article
  • NYTimes article
• How to Write a Scientific Paper
  • Biophysical Soc newsletter 2017
  • ASCB newsletter 2004
  • Senturia. 2003.How to Avoid the Reviewer's Axe.
• How to Construct and Present a Poster
  • Advice to undergrads from a Swarthmore professor. Much detailed information, including not to wear Axe (lol).Templates and examples.
  • Do'sand Don'ts for Poster Construation and Presentation. Older but still good.
  • The "Better Poster" Format.
    • Inside HigherEd article
    • YouTube video
    • Templates

Memoirs of scientists

• A life in science by Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate.
• Shimomura Memoir - Discovery of GFP

Philosophy of Science and Discover

• Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or,what Ilearned while studying apoptosis. Lazebnik, 2002.

* Some of these are from the lab web site of David Beebe at UW-Madison - thanks to him. Others are from various places encountered online.