Simple advice on how to plan your PhD and minimize the risk of disaster. I first talk about when to take courses and which types of courses I recommend, which is courses directly related to your project or transferrable skills such as scientific writing, presentation technique, and project management. I will then explain how to make a project plan that maximizes efficiency and minimizes risk of failure, and the dangers of relying on future data. Afterwards, I will give some advice on how to do the actual project work and how to publish during your PhD.
0:00 Introduction: simple advice for new PhD students and supervisors on how to avoid disaster
0:23 Course plan: systems vary greatly, earlier is better, project relevance, and transferable skills
1:05 Project plan: best part of bioinformatics, multiple projects, risk reduction, stacked risks, dependency minimization, and parallel work
2:06 Data foundation: worst part of bioinformatics, data reliance, data delays, future data, and contingency plan
3:14 Doing the projects: look at the data, automate analyses, use version control, create example data, and focus on the science
4:38 Publishing: writing a review or not, safe first papers, collaborative papers, and the main paper
12 июн 2024
