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Research and scholarship

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Integraty.

Research ethics is very important. Always report what you see. One should never manipulate data/results under any circumstances.

Note-keeping.

Be a good note keeper. It will help you in the long run. Notes will help you organize your thoughts. Notes help you remember what you did months ago.

Reserach directions.

  • Focus on the most important direction, and try not to be distracted by too much details.
  • Keep record of even very small but interesting findings, they could turn out to be something huge.

Following Literature

Journal website

  • Subscribe to journals using RSS and read them daily or weekly. The following journals are recommended:
    • High-profile journals: Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Cell Stem cells.
    • General audience journals: Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Advances, Elife.
    • Preprint: BioRxiv
  • For some of papers without subscription, you can try obtaining them using SCI-HUB

Twitter

You can follow scientists and/or journals on Twitter. They will advertise/retweet/discuss some very interesting papers.

How to become an active scholar in the community?

Participate in seminars, conferences is a key part of being a scientist. Below is a list of resources that may be relevant to the research in our lab:

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