The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science
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The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science
TLP #17 : Brothers in arms : building a collective grant-writing community - Matthew Weitzman
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Jonathan Weitzman & Renaud Pourpre
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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This week we have a surprise treat - a conversation with Jonathan’s twin brother, Matt. He discusses his energetic commitment to mentoring and grant-writing workshops. They share their genetics, but also a desire to “help scientists do better science”
- Matthew comments on the usefulness of healthy competition in science
- Matt compares the joy of running a lab to cooking in the kitchen
- He loves the flexibility of science and constantly stimulated by interactions with colleagues and young scientists and new ideas
- Matt makes a strong argument for peer-to-peer mentoring, cascade mentoring and seizing constant casual mentoring opportunities
- He comments on the advantages of going to a small lab for graduate school and he advises students to look carefully at the type of scientific questions, the environment of the lab and the chemistry of the PI/mentor relationship
- Matt describes his pioneering Grant Proposal Success (GPS) grant-writing program and the importance of collective, grant-writing communities. Matt dissects the grant structure and tells us what funding committees are looking for
- He suggests that staggering projects and having work at different stages can help to integrate life and manage the lab
He mentioned these institutions :
- University of Leeds, UK : https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
- University of Pennsylvania : https://www.upenn.edu/
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) : https://www.chop.edu/
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) : https://www.nih.gov/
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies : https://www.salk.edu/
- University of California San Diego : https://ucsd.edu/
To find out more about Matt visit his website or follow him on Twitter :
https://twitter.com/WeitzmanLab
https://www.chop.edu/doctors/weitzman-matthew-d
https://pathology.med.upenn.edu/department/people/517/matthew-d-weitzman
https://twitter.com/WeitzmanLab
https://www.chop.edu/doctors/weitzman-matthew-d
https://pathology.med.upenn.edu/department/people/517/matthew-d-weitzman
30 Second Genetics : https://www.amazon.com/30-Second-Genetics-revolutionary-discoveries-explained/dp/1782405097
To find out more about Renaud :
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/
To find out more about Jonathan :
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique
To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan :
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20
More about the soundtrack :
Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/