All graduate students must maintain a lab notebook. Your laboratory notebook belongs to the lab and should be organized enough that other lab members can duplicate described procedures. It is absolutely essential that every entry in your lab notebook is dated. Lab members are expected to be familiar with Rice’s policies on intellectual property. Protecting Rice’s intellectual property interests is one of the responsibilities of the PI.
Literature
Graduate students are expected to keep up to date with the current literature in our area. Each student will be assigned a few journals. Students will be responsible for watching these journals for articles in biophotonics and each month acquiring copies of articles for our lab database. We also have a lab database for EndNotes online. Please see myendnoteweb.com to login and access this database.
Long distance (and international) phone calls
Our laboratory long distance (FAC code) code is 3723386745. The code is to be used for research purposes only.
To make long distance calls:
Dial 8 + 9 + 1 + area code and number
To make international calls:
Dial 9 + 0 + 11 + country code + city code + number
After hearing the rapid beeping sound, Dial the FAC code: 3723386745
Your call should be connected
When a company offers both a 1 800 number and a long distance number please call the 1 800 number first.
Meetings
We will have weekly lab meetings. Attendance is required for all meetings for all graduate students. Attendance is optional for undergraduate students. Students will be assigned to present each week using a rotating schedule.
Orders
Completed PO order forms should be placed in the PI’s box for signatures. I will sign and fill out the line with the account to be used for purchasing.
Phone numbers
Dr. Drezek’s office number:
Dr. Drezek’s cell phone:
E102 office phone:
E103 office phone:
E104 office phone:
Publication
Work on a project is not complete until the study has been published in a peer-reviewed journal! Although productivity will vary from student to student, it is expected that a typical student will publish at least one first author paper per year. Submission of the first peer-reviewed paper should occur prior to taking the PhD oral exam so that the paper may be included as an appendix to the proposal.
When you have a new paper published please follow the procedures for adding that paper to our lab resources.
Protocol for new papers
The Author is Responsible for:
Informing the webmaster to have paper added to the web.
Uploading a copy to our Owlspace site. *Lab Outputs-->Papers-->Year
Last name of first author_Journal_Year_ #
(# refers to the volume or issue; if there is not a # add the month)
Print a hard copy and put it in the appropriate Notebook for Lab Papers.
Procrastination
Effective time management is arguably one of the most important predictors of future success. I strongly suggest working actively to develop skills in this area.
Manuscript review
Whether your career takes you to industry, government labs, or academia, as a PhD you will be involved in peer review of manuscripts submitted for publication. To gain skills in this area, occasionally you will be asked to co-review (with the PI) manuscripts submitted for publication which our lab has been asked to review. As you become an older graduate student and more known in the field, it is likely that you will independently review manuscripts as well (manuscripts will be sent directly for you for review rather than first coming to the PI). It is of utmost importance that the content of manuscripts under consideration for publication remain confidential!!! It is not appropriate under any circumstances to discuss a paper that our lab is reviewing with *anyone* outside of the lab. A review should briefly summarize the content of the paper, recommend for or against publication, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, and contain a detailed list of specific changes recommended before publication. Before submitting a review to me, I expect you to first have your review critiqued by at least one other group member (your pick). After compiling a final review, the the review will be submitted to the journal in the names of both the reviewer and the PI. This allows the student to add the journal to the reviewing section of his or her CV.
