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Papers with student authorship
Dissertations and doctoral projects Peer-reviewed publications: Cutting, T & Hartman RE. Unde...
A primer on the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) nervous system for behavioral neuroscientists
Before we begin, it's pronounced: droh-SOFF-uh-luh mel-AN-uh-gas-ter Dro - like drone so - st...
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Misc
PsyD Final Manuscript outlines 2021.docx
PDFs
Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook.PDF Benefits of publishing ...
Choosing a project
For finding papers, my go-to tools are Pubmed and Google Scholar. The University Library also has...
Joining the lab
Like many scientists, I view our lab as a small business that creates income (grants) by doing wo...
Note regarding funding and quarterly lab fees
Students eligible for federal work study may be offered up to 20 hr/wk “research assistant” posit...
About the Hartman Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
See the lab's website for information about our focus and members: home page PI (Rich Hartman...
Typical timeline to completion of the program
Lab members should strive to maintain this schedule, which will assure completion of the requir...
Meetings
Depending on your "stage" in the program, we may meet more or less often. Generally, you will fal...
Note regarding lab members’ clinical training placements
Although I generally stay out of the “clinical” side of things, most clinical lab members are gen...
Keeping a lab notebook
Keeping an updated electronic lab notebook (ELN) is required to get a “Satisfactory” grade for yo...
Required software and useful websites
We use several software packages and websites to accomplish different things in the lab: LLU u...
Basic laboratory practices
When collecting data, all experimenters should be blinded, and all experimental factors should ...
Writing scientific papers
Each lab member is expected to write and submit (and hopefully publish) 1 review paper. For PsyD ...
Using your electronic lab notebook (ELN)
An electronic lab notebook (ELN) like eLabFTW allows lab notebook entries to be automated and cus...
Getting stuff done (GTD)
If you are asking me to do anything (answer a question, sign off on course units, review a manusc...
Generic data analysis procedures
Following these guidelines should get you started on most basic analyses: Before the experimen...
Data management workflow
Excel is great for organizing your data and making simple calculations (e.g., means / standard de...