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New PI diaries

New PI diaries

In this ‘New PI diaries’ blog series, we will follow the journey of a few new PIs over the course of their first year of starting their research group, giving the Node readers an inside view of the challenges and highlights of being a new PI.

Will you be starting your own lab soon? The Node is especially looking for new PIs who will be setting up their lab somewhere outside of Europe and the US. Get in touch if you are interested!

New PI diaries: Hiring people and building a lab

Posted by , on 23 August 2024

On my first day at the ZMBP last October I saw our lab space and my first thought was ‘I have a lab!’. A little over half a year later, …

First Sy(Stem)s Developmental Biology Lab Picture

Posted by , on 31 May 2024

I can’t believe it has been six months since I started this adventure as a group leader at the Center for Developmental Biology. Since then, few (but also lots of) …

New PI diaries: Setting, meeting and adjusting my expectations

Posted by , on 12 February 2024

It’s now been 4 months since I started as a Junior Group Leader at the ZMBP in Tübingen, Germany. And I love it. But while I quickly found the literal …

A Homeward Bound Scientist: Setting Up a Stem Cell Research Lab in Seville

Posted by , on 29 November 2023

Hello, my name is Elena Camacho-Aguilar, and I am excited to be contributing to the “New PI Diaries” section on The Node. As you might have already deduced, I am …

New PI diaries: I’m going on an adventure, to find the fertilizer

Posted by , on 2 October 2023

Read the first diary entry from Margot Smit in the ‘New PI diaries’ blog series about setting up her own lab at the ZMBP in Tübingen, Germany

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Updated on 17 October 2023