Episode CLXVIII: Surprisingly Successful Summer for the Norris Lab
This summer was the second summer for The Norris Lab at SMU, and it was full of good news. There were three main things: 1. Paper The main "output" of a basic biology research lab is journal publications. We were therefore excited to publish our first major lab paper this summer in the journal eLife, which is a fairly prestigious journal. This was exciting because it was the first paper consisting mostly of work done in The Norris Lab, and the first with me as the "senior author." A small news article, intended for a non-scientific audience, was written about the study. Take a look at it here if you're interested. 2. Funding In order keep the research funded and papers published, it's necessary to obtain funding for the lab in the form of grants. In my field that usually means grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Competition for NIH grants is fierce, so I kept my goals modest. My work on worms is fairly cheap, so we wouldn...