«By contrast, PIs who spend a lot of
time in the lab tend to run tighter ships.»
Not exact matches
«I've been shocked that almost every
time we scan a species, we learn something new,» says Matthew Kolmann, a postdoctoral researcher
in Summers's
lab whose CT scans of piranhas revealed that the fish
tend to leave nasty pinhole bite marks on each other's bones.
Heather Maughan, a postdoctoral fellow who is now
in a laboratory at the University of Toronto,
in Canada, observes that when «PIs spend almost no
time in the
lab,
lab members
tend to be sloppier and not perform all of their duties, such as
lab cleanup and sharing of reagents,» she says.
Develop a consistent schedule for interacting with
lab members While PIs
tend to be extremely busy, a 30 - minute to 1 - hour meeting per week with each member of the
lab may
in fact save
time since a scheduled opportunity for asking questions can decrease random interruptions during the week.
«What we
tend to see
in the sciences,» says Goel, «is that the
time it takes to get a
lab set up, fully staffed, and experiments done prevents new faculty from engaging
in risky projects, and
in the end they only get minor experiments done.»