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Lab Management

So, now that you have a job – what next? New investigators often feel thrown into the deep end when asked to setup a new laboratory from scratch. Where was that course when you were a graduate student!

APS New Investigator career pages
Find resources that will help you learn how to compete for students, select and hire technicians and Postdocs, manage a lab, be a good supervisor, get your lab group to work as a team

Making the Right Moves
Free, comprehensive guide new investigators published by the Burroughs Welcome Fund (BWF) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

HHMI/BWF Partners Courses

• APS Lab Management courses

• American Society for Microbiology Summer Institute In Preparation for Careers in Microbiology
  

• Society for Developmental Biology (sessions held at their annual meeting)

FASEB

• Career Resources/MARC Program Sponsored Seminars
  

• Faculty/Student Career Development Seminars at Minority Institutions

Books

Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career
Jeremy M. Boss; Sagebrush Bound; December 2002
This career guide traces the path from postdoctoral work to associate professorship, with advice on job hunting, lab management, funding, teaching, and the tenure process. A companion CD-ROM contains blank worksheets and six database programs to help organize laboratory specific reagents.

At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator
Kathy Barker: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002
Provides scientists with the basic management skills they need to lead projects and plan their time. Among the topics treated here are hiring practices, time management, how to keep research central, organization, communication, and how to be a leader.

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