MARTIN LAB AT USF

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What I can do for you:
While in the lab and after you graduate, I will do my best to:
1. Provide funding for both research and stipend
2. Provide advice and contacts towards the advancement of your career
3. Help with the development and execution of projects
4. Critique your grant proposals and manuscripts
5. Schedule meetings to discuss your progress
6. Hold roundtables often to discuss current literature and your data and experimental designs
7. Show you the scientific ropes

What is expected of you:
In order for you to become a successful scientist and good lab citizen, you must:
1. Be  accessible to me and your lab mates
2. Think and work independently, generate your own questions, and keep me updated about your work
3. Make presentations at national and international meetings
4. Write manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
5. Write grant proposals to attempt to fund your own research
6. Help fellow labmates and learn from them in return
7. Take care of research animals, equipment, field sites, and collaborative relationships
8. Be responsible for your own paperwork and deadlines
9. Appreciate and act as an emissary of the lab and USF
10. Be honest with yourself, your colleagues, your mentors, and me
11. Appropriately recognize the contributions of colleagues in talks, manuscripts, or any other professional product

Some useful resources:
Steve Stearn's advice

Ray Huey's advice

Individual development plan from AAAS

Developing a game plan

Your rights

The life history of an ecology PhD

Ten rules to maintain your scientific reputation

A foolproof grant template


Secrets to thriving in graduate school

The most important question of your life?

Becoming antifragile
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GPA and grad school

80 hours a week?!?
© LB Martin, 2018.
Lynn B. Martin
USF Integrative Biology, SCA 110
4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620
phone: 813-974-0157
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