Academic Leadership & Laboratory Management

TSRI jointly organizes an annual Academic Leadership Symposium (ALS) at Scripps California and Scripps Florida. In California, the symposium is organized in conjunction with The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Sanford-Burnham Biomedical Research Institute, and the University of California San Diego. In Florida, the symposium is organized in conjuction with Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, and Florida Atlantic University Division of Research.

For more information of the (ALS), please refer to the articles below.

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Lab Management Books

Barker, Kathy. At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005.

Barker, Kathy. At the Helm: Leading Your Laboratory, 2nd Edition. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2010.

Bloomfield, Victor A. and Esam E. El-Fakahany. The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Boice, Robert. Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Boss, Jeremy M., and Susan H. Eckert. Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.

Cohen, Carl M., and Suzanne L. Cohen. Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005.

Feibelman, Peter J. A Ph.D. is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science. New York, NY: Perseus Books Group, 1994.

Fisher, Roger, and William Ury: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2011 (revised ed.).

Formo, Dawn M., and Cheryl Reed. Job Search in Academe. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 1999.

Gosling, Patricia A. and Bart D Noordam. Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag New York LLC, 2006.

Harmening, Denise M. Laboratory Management: Principles and Processes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty (2nd ed.). 2006.

Lucas, Christopher J., and John W. Murry, Jr. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Menges, Robert J., and associates. Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling in, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.

Newhouse, Margaret L. Cracking the Academia Nut: A Guide to Preparing for Your Academic Career. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Patterson, Kerry et al. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High. McGraw-Hill, 2011.

Reis, Richard M. Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. New York, NY: IEEE Press, 1997.

Sapienza, Alice M. Managing Scientists (2nd Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, 2004.

Toth, Emily. Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Vick, Julie Miller and Jennifer S. Furlong. The Academic Job Search Handbook (4th Ed.). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Lab Management Articles

Austin, Jim. Management in the Lab. ScienceCareers.org (September 13, 2002).

Austin, Jim. Managing Knowledge Workers: Rules for Absolute Beginners. ScienceCareers.org (May 12, 2003).

Austin, Jim. The Academic Scientists’ Toolkit. ScienceCareers.org (April 29, 2004).

Austin, Robert D. Managing Knowledge Workers. ScienceCareers.org (July 21, 2006).

Austin, Robert D. “Project Management and Discovery.” ScienceCareers.org (September 13, 2002).

Barker, Kathy. At the Helm: Avoiding Management Mistakes. ScienceCareers.org (July 25, 2003).

Boss, Jeremy M., and Eckert, Susan H. Academic Scientists at Work: Negotiating a Faculty Position. ScienceCareers.org (February 11, 2005).

Bourne, Philip E. 10 Simple Rules Series. PLoS Computational Biology (accessed February 13, 2013).

Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Staffing the Lab: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Bench. Burroughs Wellcome Fund (accessed March 2, 2010).

Clifford, Phil S., and Joan M. Lakoski Top 10 Tips for Mentors. ScienceCareers.org (October 8, 2010).

Cohen, Carl M., and Suzanne L. Cohen Lab Dynamics: Sciences at the Balcony. ScienceCareers.org (September 2, 2005).

Dolgin, Elie. Management for Beginners. The Scientist. July 2008.

Doumont, Jean-luc. Managing a Research Group. Optics & Photonics News. September 2011.

Doumont, Jean-luc. Traditions, templates, and group leaders. Principiae (April 2, 2012).

Fiske, Peter. Opportunities: Research, Inc. ScienceCareers.org (May 9, 2008).

Gewin, Virginia. Funding Your Future: Publish or Perish. ScienceCareers.org (September 11, 2009).

Golde, Chris M. Be Honorable and Strategic. ScienceCareers.org (August 24, 2001).

Haynes, Laura et al. Lab Management: Insights for the New Investigator. Nature Immunology. September 2006.

Hede, Karen. Managing Scientists. ScienceCareers.org, (November 9, 2007).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists.

Laursen, Lucas. If at First You Don’t Succeed, Cool Off, Revise, and Submit Again. ScienceCareers.org (August 15, 2008).

Levine, Irene S. Mind Matters: Managing Conflict in the Lab. ScienceCareers.org (September 23, 2005).

Marshall, Hilary. Lab Rage: Dealing with Personality Conflicts. ScienceCareers.org (June 30, 2000).

McGovern, Victoria. Perspective: How to Succeed in Big Science and Still Get Tenure. ScienceCareers.org (July 31, 2009).

Milano, Carol. Lab Management: The Human Elements. ScienceCareers.org (March 12, 2010).

National Postdoctoral Association. RCR Toolkit. Nationalpostdoc.org, (October 8, 2009).

Pain, Elisabeth. Rejuvenation Tips for Tenured Faculty. ScienceCareers.org (June 26, 2009).

Pain, Elisabeth. Research Integrity: Making the Right Choices. ScienceCareers.org (January 4, 2008).

Pain, Elisabeth. Your Research in the Headlines: Dealing with the Media. ScienceCareers.org (September 12, 2008).

Perkel, Jeffrey M. Lab Equipment You Need – Sort Of. The Scientist. November 2006.

Perkel, Jeffrey M. Needed: Praise for Postdocs. The Scientist. September 2006.

Portny, Stanley E., and Jim Austin. Project Management for Scientists. ScienceCareers.org (July 12, 2002).

Stone, David A. Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator. The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 7, 2010).

Vick, Julie Miller, and Jennifer S. Furlong. From Graduate Student to Faculty Member. The Chronicle of Higher Educaton (August 26, 2010).

Webb, Sarah. Business Sense: Starting an Academic Lab. ScienceCareers.org (July 17, 2009).

Mentoring Resources

Individual Development Plans The Career & Postdoctoral Services Office offers a career planning tool that helps to identify scholars' professional development needs and career objectives. While not required, it is strongly recommended that all TSRI postdocs review the IDP template and establish their own development plans to track progress and facilitate discussion with their advisors.

AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors is intended to initiate discussions at the local and national levels abut the postdoctoral appointee-mentor relationship.

Effective Lab Skills: Managing People, Projects, and Money is an archived webinar offered by ScienceCareers.org.

Preparing Future Faculty

Mentoring Resources for Graduate Students and Faculty from the University of Washington

Women in Science Project at Dartmouth College includes electronic mentoring information

COACh Committe on the Advancement of Women Chemists

Committee on Women in Science and Engineering from the National Research Council and National Science Foundation

Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend is an excellent resource from the National Academy of Sciences, especially the section "The Mentor as Career Adviser"