Figuring out how our cells keep it together

Resources

Maintaining a lab notebook

  1. NIH OITE Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
  2. Dr. Callie Chappell’s Blog on Lab Notebooking

Scientific writing

  1. Ten Simple Rules for Writing Research Papers
  2. LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
  3. Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners
  4. A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Review Article

Yeast molecular biology and genetics

  1. Primer design for fission yeast tagging and knockout
  2. Tetrad Dissection

Fiji

  1. Intro to image analysis
  2. Intro to Fiji

Adobe Illustrator

  1. Introduction to Adobe Illustrator for scientific figure design
  2. Getting your images from Fiji to Illustrator

Figure design

Many of these resources are from the fantastic Bang Wong, who wrote a series of short articles for Nature Methods.

  1. Color coding Aug 2010
  2. Design of data figures Sep 2010
  3. Salience 29 Sep 2010
  4. Gestalt principles 1 28 Oct 2010
  5. Gestalt principles 2 29 Nov 2010
  6. Negative space 29 Dec 2010
  7. Points of review 1 28 Jan 2011
  8. Points of review 2 25 Feb 2011
  9. Typography 30 Mar 2011
  10. The overview figure 28 Apr 2011
  11. Color blindness 27 May 2011
  12. Avoiding color 29 Jun 2011
  13. Arrows 30 Aug 2011
  14. Simplify to clarify 28 Jul 2011
  15. Layout 29 Sep 2011
  16. Salience to relevance 28 Oct 2011
  17. The design process 29 Nov 2011
  18. Data exploration 28 Dec 2011
  19. Heat maps 28 Feb 2012
  20. Mapping quantitatve data to color
  21. Power of the plane 27 Sep 2012
  22. Pencil & Paper 06 Nov 2012
  23. Plotting symbols 30 May 2013