Reflections
Finding your unique path in science
The below is a reprint of my award essay for the ASCB WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research published originally in MBoC: Avasthi P. Finding your unique path in science. Mol Biol Cell. 2020
Pro-tips
Navigating the valley of despair (aka years 4-end of grad school)
Twice per year, I sit down with each person in the lab to go over their career development plan. We discuss what they think they’re doing well relative to others at their career stage (not
News
Avasthi Lab at ASCB|EMBO 2019
Most of our lab is headed to the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in DC in a few weeks! Below is a rundown of where you can find us. Please do come by
Reflections
Career Development Week v4.0
This week, we ran our annual career development week in which I encourage the lab to participate in activities that fill gaps in their career development, explore career options, and find new strategies to help
Pro-tips
Love letter to iBiology
I recently participated in a fantastic iBiology course called “Let’s Experiment : A Guide for Scientists Working at the Bench.” My involvement partly included a discussion about an experimental decision tree I made to help
Reflections
Staying vigilant
Recently the NIH changed its language on the Scientific Premise portion of their grant proposals and required that Rigor of the Prior Research now be explicitly be addressed in the Significance and Approach section. This
Lab Ideas
Career Development Week 2018
It’s that time of year again when the lab takes a week to focus on career development. We all have the tendency to prioritize these activities below research and upcoming deadlines but, given their importance,
Pro-tips
Choosing a lab for your PhD or postdoc
I was recently asked to comment on how I decided upon PhD and postdoc labs by Elisabeth Pain at Science Careers. The piece appears here but of course my long-winded answers had to be edited
Reflections
Respect the hustle
I recently saw this tweet from the exciting new democratic candidate for New York’s 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Some folks are saying I won for “demographic” reasons. 1st of all, that’s false. We won