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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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, Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Pro-tips
Encouraging good scholarship
Keeping up with the literature is almost always the first thing to fall by the wayside for all of us when we get busy. Usually this is because there are few overt short-term consequences of letting Read more
Reflections
Celebrating Science!
This morning I had the honor of speaking at the Kansas City March for Science. I was invited by an organizer, one of our fantastic graduate students, Cassi Johnson. It was a blustery day so the conditions Read more
Reflections
White knuckles
With startup funds rapidly dwindling and major external grant funding elusive, this year has been arguably the hardest of my professional career. I don’t say it lightly given that other notable gut punches included switching Read more