Foreword .................................................... ix
Preface ..................................................... xi
PART I The first couple of years
1 Choosing and handling your Ph.D. adviser ..................... 3
2 Motivation, time management, and multitasking ............... 10
3 Handling the literature ..................................... 17
4 Report writing .............................................. 23
5 Powerful presentations ...................................... 26
PART II The end of the beginning
6 Writing papers and abstracts ................................ 31
7 Conferences and poster presentations ........................ 43
8 Writing and defending your thesis ........................... 52
9 Coping with pressure and stress ............................. 59
PART III The transition to post-doctoral research
10 From graduate student to post-doc ........................... 67
11 Collaboration and visiting other labs ....................... 75
12 Supervising students in the lab ............................. 85
13 Teaching .................................................... 91
14 Writing grant proposals and fellowship applications ......... 97
PART IV Making it in science
15 Culturing your image ...................................... 103
16 You and your big ideas .................................... 109
17 Planning for a permanent job .............................. 114
18 Do you have principal investigator (PI) potential? ........ 120
Epilogue ................................................... 124
Web-links .................................................. 125
Index ...................................................... 127
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