Advice

Below are some links that may be useful to young researchers.

Duane Bailey: Open letter to research students
Written for computer science students, but includes insights applicable to other fields.

Greg Crowther: Advice to a young biologist
A blog entry with comments from others.

Greg Crowther: Development of enzyme activity assays for high-throughput screening (HTS)
A Microsoft Word file.

Greg Crowther: Lab notebook guidelines
Another Microsoft Word file.

Greg Crowther: Troubleshooting enzyme assays
Yet another Microsoft Word file.

Steve Stearns and Ray Huey: Some modest advice for graduate students
A now-famous pair of talks originally given on a whim at a UC-Berkeley "Ecolunch" and later published in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.