General Information for Interested Undergrads and Masters Students

From GersteinInfo

A bit of a five-step plan:

1 * Look at past and present undergrads

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

(above only includes a selection of ~60 undergrads that spent substantial amounts of time in the lab)

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

(These have included STARs students and perspectives in science students.)

2 * Next, glance at their papers

http://papers.gersteinlab.org/subject/student

(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.)

Here are some examples, first author papers by lab undergrads. who spent quite a bit of time in the lab:

1. http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/molmovdb2 (A very physical paper done by a senior undergrad. who worked in the lab in a 5th year.)
2. http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/bayesloc-jmb (A fairly genomic paper done by BS/MS MB&B student)
3. http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/pubnet (A computational tool done by a CS undergrad. in his last year.)

Also, might want to look at YDN article mentioning work of one of our undergrads: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/mar/23/students-papers-hit-the-presses/

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 some press write-ups as well.

See Selected Press Accounts Highlighting Gerstein Lab Work

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

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.

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