Please let Dr. Liu know if these resources are useful for you!
For undergraduate students and beyond
2. Study Strategies and Resources: UT Learning Enhancement Center
3. Ohio means jobs: how to prepare your resume, job interview, or look for job opportunities etc.
4. What not to include in your resume
5. Exploring careers in biochemistry and molecular biology - asbmb
6. NAS report on K-12 science education
7. NAS report: Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education (2018)
8. NAS report: Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities (2017)
9. Think like a researcher: Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? — or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis
Biochemistry vs. Genetics: Bill and Doug on car repair
For graduate students and beyond
1. Google "How to be a good graduate student" and read the first 20 items.
You will find some common themes right away. These essays will help you assess whether you should go to graduate school at all or how you should plan for the life in a graduate school. Several of them may sound harsh but true, such as Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students
2. Google "a grad school survival guide"
Tough love: An insensitive guide to thriving in your PhD
A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!"
How to succeed in science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists by Dr Jonathan Yewdell
- Part I: taking the plunge Part II: making discoveries.
Some comments for Graduate Students by Dr. Robert Schleif
3. The lab has the following books:
Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School:
A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
Feibelman, Peter J.; Paperback
The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Booth, Wayne C.,Colomb, Gregory G.,Williams, Joseph M.,Bizup, Joseph,FitzGerald, William T.; Paperback
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
Karsh, Ellen,Fox, Arlen Sue; Paperback
Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded
Schimel, Joshua; Paperback
4. NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training
5. Individual Development Plan:
6. Recent discussions on issues concerning the future of US biomedicine research, biomedicine PhD training, biomedicine jobs and careers:
2018 NAS Report: Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
Are scientists a workforce? – Or, how Dr. Frankenstein made biomedical research sick
FASEB "Sustaining Discovery in Biological and Medical Sciences"
'Employment crisis' for new Ph.D.s is an illusion
Molecular Biology - Survey of Doctoral Education
What the heck do you do with a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences
If You're A PhD And Do This, You'll Never Get A Job
Where Will A Biology PhD Take You? - ASCB
Where will you go after your PhD/postdoc? - ASCB
Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws
Catalyzing the Modernization of Graduate Education
Strategies from UW-Madison for rescuing biomedical research in the US
Addressing Biomedical Science's PhD Problem
Investing in the Future: NIGMS Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training
For postdocs and beyond
1. American Society for Cell Biology Career Books: The lab has the books.
3. How to choose a good scientific problem.
4. How to build a motivated research group.
5. Howard Hugues Medical Institute: Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists
6. Richard Hammings: You and your research
Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming
On presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7Id3Yb9XQ
https://www.princeton.edu/~archss/webpdfs08/BaharMartonosi.pdf
http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/education/presentations/carlton_presentations.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=uri+alon+talk
Brigid Hogan on: how to prepare posters, powerpoint presentations and scientific papers
Statistics
Getting Started with R: An Introduction for Biologists
Beckerman, Andrew P.,Childs, Dylan Z.,Petchey, Owen L.; Paperback The lab has the book.
Miscellanies
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Covey, Stephen R.; Paperback The lab has the book.