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MSU resources

Use lab wiki

  • Please make extensive use of the wiki site and put relevant information on your personal page (User:name) as well as other area as you see fit. Specifically, lab members should actively maintain the project information in their personal page. In addition, we ask you to put your one page summary and presentation for the lab meeting online.
  • For more information on wiki

Lab meeting

Organization

  • Time & Place: Every Wednesday 9:00-10:30am in the office area of S-308.
  • Structure: research presentation and literature review on alternating weeks.
    • Research presentation- One presentation on research. The idea is that everybody in the lab should go at least once every month.

Monthly summary

  • Here is a template.
  • What is the about: To help guiding your research, to provide documentation of your thought process and progress that can be useful for future publication, and to remind the forgetful PI.
  • When should this be done: Every graduate students and postdoctoral scientists should fill this out by the last day of each month and send the document to Shinhan by email.
  • What is in the summary:
    • What have you accomplished in the previous month? Specifically, talk about (1) the major findings and their significance, (2) the unresolved problems related to your research project, (3) the reasons why you have or have not accomplished what you planned last month.
    • What do you plan to do next month? Be reasonable. It should be a to-do list. Please specify how the outcomes of each to-do item can be measured. Also, explain how each item will move your project forward and how they are related to the unresolved problems you are facing.
    • What are the most interesting things you have learned from any source including literature, your colleagues, news, or just thinking on your own in the past month?
    • What is the one thing you LIKE the most that happen in the lab in the previous month?
    • What is the one thing you DISLIKE the most that happen in the lab in the previous month? This is for improving the working environment in the lab.

Monthly journal review

  • Journal assignments

Me(Melissa), Sh(Shinhan), Zo(Zou-cheng), G(Gaurav), A(Amanda)

Journals # issues/month Assigned Journals # issues/month Assigned
Nature 4 A Science 4 Jo
PNAS 4 Zo Bioinformatics 2 G
BMC Bioinfo. 2 sh BMC Evo. Bio. 2 Sh
BMC Genomics 2 Zo BMC Plant Bio. 2 Me
Cell 2 Me Cur.Bio. 2 M
Cur.Op.Gen&Dev 0.5 G Cur.Op.Pl.Bio. 0.5 M
Genetics 1 Me Genome Biology 1 Me
Genome Research 1 Zo J.Mol.Evo. 1 Zo
MBE 1 G Nature Genetics 1 G
Plant Phys. 1 Me Plant Cell 1 Zo
Plant Journal 1 Zo Plos Biology 1 Sh
Plos Genetics 1 Sh Plos Comp.Bio. 1 Sh
TREE 1 Sh TIG 1 Me
TIPS 1 G Evolution 1 G
M. System Bio
G


Namewise distribution

Name Journals
Gaurav COGD, MBE, Bioinformatics, Nature Genetics, Evolution,M. System Bio
Cheng PNAS, BMC Genomics, Genome Research, Plant Journal, JME, Plant cell
Melissa Genetics, Science, Curr Op. Plant Biol, Genome Biology, TIG
Shinhan BMC Bioinfo, PLoS Genetics, TREE, PLoS CompBio, PLoS Biology, BMC Evo. Bio
Jordan
Nature
Shan
 Plant Physiol, Cell, Trends in Plant Sciences,Current Biology

Lab meeting schedule

we can do this in the google calendar, I built a calendar called "lab meeting of Shiu lab "

First, Round robin

Second, Cheng, Gaurav

Third, Shan,Mellisa

Fourth, Paper

No. Date Day Format of lab meeting
1


2 23 July, 08
 Wed Journal review
3 30 July, 08
 Wed   ??
4 4 Aug, 08 Mon Round robin (moved to 1pm)
5
 13 Aug, 08
 Wed
 Gaurav Moghe
6 20 Aug, 08 Wed Cheng Zou
7 27 Aug, 08 Wed Journal review
8 3 Sep, 08 Wed Melissa Lehti-Shiu

Computing enrivronment

Check here for:

  • MSU computer usage guideline.
  • Lab printer and wireless setup.
  • Learn programming.
  • Computing resources in MSU and our lab.

Authorship and collaboration

The lab is a collaborative environment and involves in publishing primary findings. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has published Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication that the PI found to provide a good guideline regarding the authorship. Authorship credit should be based on:

  • Substantial contributions to:
    1. Conception and design
    2. Data acquisition
    3. Data analysis
    4. Data Interpretation
  • Drafting the article or revising critically for important intellectual content
  • Final approval of the version to be published

But not simply based on:

  • Acquisition of funding
  • Collection of data
  • General supervision of the research group
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