Mortimer Lab playlists
- Lab Playlist IV — headphones have been banned in the lab
- Lab Playlist III — the TayTay free zone
- Lab Playlist II — post pandemic
- Lab Pandemic Playlist — what we listened to as we dealt with 2020…
Useful links
Our institutes, our funders, and professional societies we belong to.
- Plants for Space (P4S) — an ARC Centre of Excellence
- Future Crops Development — an ARC Training Centre
- Engineering Plants to Replace Fossil Carbon — an ARC Research Hub
- m-CAFEs — a DOE BER Science Focus Area
- The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) — a DOE BER Bioenergy Research Center program
- Waite Research Institute — our research institute at Adelaide
- Adelaide University — our home institute (and the IT status site, useful in emergencies)
- JBEI Inventory of Composable Elements (ICE) — public version of JBEI's registry of DNA parts (for requesting strains, constructs etc.)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) — our home institute (and the status site)
- The Australian Research Council
- The Department of Energy (DOE)
- The Biochemical Society
- The Australian Society of Plant Scientists
- The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
- The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- The Australian Glycoscience Society
- The Society for Glycobiology
- Plantae — social network for plant scientists
Examples of research fellowships
Including ones our team members have been awarded (✔). If you have additions, please email Jenny.
- Comprehensive, monthly-updated databases from Johns Hopkins: Graduate, Postdoc, and Early Career Faculty
- A curated list for minority postdoc funding opportunities
- Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellowships — limited restrictions on nationality
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) — any nationality, to work in an Australian lab
- LSRF — any nationality eligible to work in a US lab ✔
- DFG fellowships — for German citizens, or those with extensive scientific training in Germany ✔
- Swedish International Postdoc — for those awarded a PhD by a Swedish institution who want to research abroad
- VILLUM Foundation — for Danish citizens to do a postdoc overseas ✔
- Mobilex grants — for Danish citizens
- L'Oréal USA for Women in Science
- Fulbright postgraduate scholarships — for UK or Australian citizens to research in the US
Science skills
How to write papers, peer review, and more — see also our ethics page.
- How to keep a lab notebook — written for paper notebooks, but most advice applies to our electronic ones. Plus tips for OneNote (LBNL) and LabArchives (Adelaide)
- A Nature masterclass on peer review, and a peer review process guide
- A Nature collection on Statistics for Biologists
- Novelist Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific paper
- Colour-blindness and figures, and a simulator to check how your figures look
- Finding non-copyrighted images for presentations. Jenny also recommends BioRender and Inkscape/Adobe Illustrator for figures
- Free copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" via gutenberg.org
- The Addgene Blog — e.g. "how to prepare for an industry interview" and "free molecular biology tools"
Mentoring
- Handbook for mentoring undergrad interns at LBNL (e.g. SULI, CCI, BLUFF, BLUR)
- More to come…
Protocols
We've started a lab space at protocols.io. It's currently private while we draft, but we'll make each protocol public as we finalise it.
In the meantime, Jenny loves the advice for students new to lab work from #Undergradinthelab (@youinthelab) and Not Voodoo (@Not_Voodoo).
Ebooks and other primers
Where possible, free.
- Essentials of Glycobiology — spot the chapter co-authored by Jenny!
- 101 ways to try to grow Arabidopsis, from Purdue
- How a sorghum plant develops, from TAMU
- Glossary of Scientific Terms, from Goodfellow (thanks to the STEM Club for girls at Fullers Library for the suggestion!)