Research Guide

We have created a research guide aimed both at SyBBURE students specifically and, hopefully, eventually undergraduate researchers everywhere!

go to: guidetoresearch.com

Here’s what you’ll find in this guide:

1. Purpose

• Welcome

• Starting College

2. Getting experience

• Finding Your Interests

• Types of Lab Experiences

• Choosing the Right Research Mentor

• How to Join a Lab

• Communicating with Mentors

• Finding the Right Lab Culture and Where You Fit in

• How to leave a lab

3. Safety

• Responsibility

• Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)

• Ethics

• Lab-Specific Safety

4. Professional skills

• Relationships

• Being Coachable: Giving and Receiving Feedback

• Communicating with Mentors

• Intellectual Property

• Etiquette and Conduct

• Time Management

5. Project management

• Project Management (coming soon)

• Team Roles

• Stage Gates (coming soon)

• Lab Notebook

• Setting Research Goals

• Contingency Planning

6. Technical skills

• Scientific Thinking (coming soon)

• Critical Thinking

• Literature Search: Get to know what you don’t know

• Reference Managers

• Hypothesis Generation

• Designing a Study (coming soon)

• Analyzing Results and Interpreting Data (coming soon)

• Analysis Software (coming soon)

• Making Figures

• Statistics

7. Scientific communication

• Building a Narrative (coming soon)

• Identifying Your Audience (coming soon)

• Progress Updates

• Research Proposals

• Writing a Conference Abstract

• Oral Presentations

• Poster Design

• Poster Presentations

• Manuscript Preparation

• Publishing

8. Networking

• Networking Basics (coming soon)

• Starting Conversations

• Informational Interviews (coming soon)

• Relationships

9. Funding

• Finding funding as an undergrad

• Writing grants

10. Career Trajectories

• What Now?

• Applying to Grad School

• How to Apply to Med School

• Finding a Job

• Taking a g*p year (coming soon)

While we’ve been migrating much of our past training module content to the research guide, you still might want these older training modules:

Using Resources

Science Communication

Technical Skills

Project Management

Professional Skills

If you have suggestions for training modules and/or research guide sections, please tell us!

If you want to contribute to the research guide by writing a section, we’d be happy to have your help. Slack someone on Team SyBBURE if you are interested.