We have published numerous blog posts on managing scientific labs, writing papers, and strategizing a graduate career. Articles presenting our advice on these subjects have become the top-viewed posts on our website. Moving forward, we will be organizing the ZarLab website to feature this content. We believe that the practices and strategies described in these posts have greatly improved our productivity and advanced our careers. While our posts are written with Bioinformatics in mind, the concepts can be applied broadly to careers across STEM fields.
Here we present a summary of the posts that provide advice to scientists.
Writing Tips
- Writing Tips: Improving Clarity on the Sentence Level
- Writing Tips: An Authorship Policy that Maximizes Collaboration
- Writing Tips: Why we Publish Methods Papers
- Writing Tips: Results Subsections
- Writing Tips: Methods Overview
- Writing Tips: Introduction
- Writing Tips: How we Edit
- Writing Tips: Getting Organized (and Staying that Way)
- Writing Tips: Motivation (or the Lack of It)
- Writing Tips: Overcoming Writer’s Block
Advice for Scientists
Bioinformatics Training
- Addressing the Digital Divide in Contemporary Biology: Lessons from Teaching UNIX
- UCLA Bioinformatics: The Philosophy of the Training Environment and Programs
- UCLA Bioinformatics: The Philosophy of the Ph.D. Program
- UCLA Bioinformatics: The Philosophy of the Undergraduate Program
- UCLA Launches CGSI with Inaugural Summer Programs
- Video Tutorial: Serghei Mangul’s Introduction to UNIX Workshops
- Video Tutorial: An Introduction to Read Mapping and Next Generation Sequencing
- Learning Bioinformatics @ UCLA: Finding Bioinformatics Research Opportunities
- Learning Bioinformatics @ UCLA: What Courses Should I Take?
- Learning Bioinformatics @ UCLA: The Undergraduate Bioinformatics Minor
ZarLab Thesis Defenses
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Robert Brown
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Farhad Hormozdiari
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Jong Wha (Joanne) Joo
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Zhanyong (Jerry) Wang
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Eun Yong Kang
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Jae Hoon Sul
- Thesis Defense: Dr. Nick Furlotte
Review Articles
