Links

Links you might find useful

Sequence analysis
Link to the Berkeley Campus sequencing center.
Great info from U. Mich. Med. Center on how to Interpret sequence chromatograms.
Cranston et al. 2014 Best practices for phylogenetic data PLoS Currents Tree of Life.

Tips on lab notebooks
Colin Purrington’s tips on labnotebooks
Professor Rod Beavon’s lab notebook guidelines
NIH offers a pdf of a slide show on lab notebooks

Tips on data management
Great article by Broman & Woo on how to use spreadsheets effectively
A helfpul article by Hadley Wickham about what makes data “tidy” and how to keep it that way.

Conference posters
Tips on designing posters, from Colin Purrington.
This is a great website that also had the “honor” of an unfortunate form of flattery, it was plagiarized.
Free poster templates (if you don’t mind yours looking like everyone’s)
Powerpoint
Latex

Tips on writing
Great blog post by @KateClancy on how to write a paper and respond effectively to reviewers’ comments

Navigating academics
Dynamic Ecology post on parental leave policies for postdocs at various institutions.