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A bit of a multi-step plan:
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1 * See work of past and present undergrads, and what it's like to be in the lab
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1 * See work of past and present students, and what it's like to be in the lab
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http://www.gersteinlab.org/people
http://www.gersteinlab.org/people/alumni.htm
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(the above only includes a selection of ~60 undergrads that spent substantial amounts of time in the lab)
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http://info.gersteinlab.org/Additional_Information_about_Personnel
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http://www.gersteinlab.org/people/
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Note that many of the students are joint students & come from a variety of tracks.  
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(These have included STARs students and perspective science students.)
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2 * Next, glance at papers
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2 * Next, glance at their papers
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http://papers.gersteinlab.org/
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http://papers.gersteinlab.org/subject/student
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(The above is a selection of papers involving undergrads in the lab from the lab publication corpus, http://papers.gersteinlab.org . The convention in the biological sciences is for the lab head to be last author, the first author leads the project, and the middle authors help out.)
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Here are some examples (first author papers by lab undergrads who spent quite a bit of time in the lab):
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# http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/molmovdb2 (A very physical paper done by a senior undergrad. who worked in the lab in a 5th year.)
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# http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/bayesloc-jmb (A fairly genomic paper done by BS/MS MB&B student)
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# http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/pubnet (A computational tool done by a CS undergrad. in his last year.)
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You may also want to look at the Yale Daily News article mentioning work of one of our undergrads:
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http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/mar/23/students-papers-hit-the-presses/
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3 * Drill into some very easy-to-read papers
3 * Drill into some very easy-to-read papers
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6 * Finally, write back to Mark with some summary thoughts on the above, and then arrange a meeting.
6 * Finally, write back to Mark with some summary thoughts on the above, and then arrange a meeting.
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(You might be interested in attending the regular meetings scheduled in the lab http://info.gersteinlab.org/Calendar (ie gpmtg, esp., or the all-hands P1)
7 * Any arrangement is possible. The only rule is don't be a '''*FLAKE*'''.
7 * Any arrangement is possible. The only rule is don't be a '''*FLAKE*'''.

Latest revision as of 14:31, 3 December 2015

A bit of a multi-step plan:

1 * See work of past and present students, and what it's like to be in the lab

http://www.gersteinlab.org/people

http://www.gersteinlab.org/people/alumni.htm

http://info.gersteinlab.org/Additional_Information_about_Personnel

Note that many of the students are joint students & come from a variety of tracks.

2 * Next, glance at papers

http://papers.gersteinlab.org/

3 * Drill into some very easy-to-read papers

http://papers.gersteinlab.org/subject/intro-to-lab/

in particular,

  1. simulations: http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/watersim-sciam/
  2. genomics: http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/sciam2
  3. proteomics:http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/amsci/

4 * You might want to look at our research summary and some press write-ups as well.

See http://www.gersteinlab.org/research and Selected Press Accounts Highlighting Gerstein Lab Work

Flipping through a few lectures is also easy.

5 * The above steps (1 to 4), give you some context. Now if you're interested, you might want to talk to current senior PhD students and postdocs in the lab, who could potentially be mentors for a initial project

http://www.gersteinlab.org/people/

(These can often be listed by their initials -- e.g. JR = Joel Rozowsky or CC = Chao Cheng.)

You might want to contact these people with a CC back to Mark.

6 * Finally, write back to Mark with some summary thoughts on the above, and then arrange a meeting.

(You might be interested in attending the regular meetings scheduled in the lab http://info.gersteinlab.org/Calendar (ie gpmtg, esp., or the all-hands P1)

7 * Any arrangement is possible. The only rule is don't be a *FLAKE*.

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