The lab was recently awarded a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator award. This 5-year grant – meant to support new investigators – will fund the lab’s efforts to use new techniques and approaches to map fear circuits in the brain; this award was covered in the Harvard Gazette and the HMS Focus.
Archives for October 2010
Lab culture
As the lab gets up and running we have been talking a lot about lab culture – what makes for a great lab, and what we can do to help ours along. Most published advice is written in management-speak or 70s-style psychobabble (yuck and yuck), but we were pleased to come across the work of systems biologist Uri Alon, who writes and talks incisively about these issues all the time. In addition to his science songs –
– he has some excellent resources on his web page, including some great essays by Cori Bargmann on graduate school culture.