Welcome to your PhD program in at the !

You will be working mostly on your own with my occasional supervision with my constant supervision with constant supervision of a postdoc [custom]

Your project for the PhD will be picked and pitched by you will be loosely based on current work in lab will closely follow ongoing project [custom]

PhDs in my lab are funded 100% by grants mostly by grants, sometimes by fellowships mostly by fellowships only by fellowships [custom]

As your PI, I expect that you show up to lab 9-5 work 8-7 at least pick your own hours work as much as humanly possible [custom] and have flexible schedule be here when I am here [custom]

Work on weekends is expected and essential OK only when necessary followed by reduced hours during next week [custom]

If you want to take time off I need to know 30 days in advance it is possible based on current research/grant deadlines we follow standard University policies do it only after 2nd year [custom]

I expect that you respond to my emails immediately within 3-6 hours within 24 hours [custom]

Successful PhD thesis requires at least one published first-author paper in journal with IF>20 several first/mid-author papers few submitted or accepted papers one preprint or a few conference presentations [custom]

Your qualifying exam is a presentation of research plan requires a bit of preliminary data requires data and concrete results requires a draft of a paper [custom] and includes exam based on coursework has no exam requirements [custom]

Thesis manuscript can be "stapled papers" with original intro should be completely original, no copy-pasting [custom]

I expect students in my lab to finish PhD within 5 years within 5-7 years eventually [custom]

When working on your first-author papers you make the first draft, I will edit I will do most of the writing I will provide only limited editing [custom]

Travel to conferences will be on your own dime/funding will be funded by the the lab once a year is discouraged is prohibited until paper is out [custom]

Our one-on-one meetings will happen sporadically are weekly happen any time I pop into the lab [custom] and our lab meetings are not happening a practice for your job talk a short presentation of recent results a discussion of any problem you have [custom]

During our journal club meetings we are figuring out how to get in such a high IF journal trying to find new methods for our work looking for future experiments learning from direct competition [custom]

Collaborations with other labs are essential are prohibited should be minimal are encouraged, you should look for one [custom]

Pre-prints publications (such as BioArxv) should be followed with peer-review publication can be end point in project should be submitted right before submitting for peer-review should be limited [custom]

Authorship on the papers is discussed at some point, I guess too political for me to get involved discussed very early in project defined by postdocs [custom]

Your PhD in my lab will help you to work in academia, running a lab most likely in industry somewhere, you will have to figure for yourself [custom]

You should start interviewing for your next job as early as possible year before graduation when I say so, or you dead to me [custom]

If things don't work out and you decide to change lab you are dead to me I will not get in the way, write honest letter I will actively try to help you find new place to finish [custom]

Sincerely,