lab values
This document is inspired by Mariam Aly’s excellent article. This page contains brief information about the lab goals, expectations and responsibilities and publication policies. An expanded version of this document and additional practical information about mailing lists, calendars, contact numbers, computing resources, animal management and experimental protocols is on our internal wiki.
Goals
We aim to do the best science we can with the resources available to us. We are committed to supporting creative and rigorous science that aims to address important questions, and to making the process enjoyable and rewarding for everyone involved. We expect everyone in our labs to share this commitment.
Expectations and responsibilities
With help from current and previous lab members we’ve put together below principles and general expectations for everyone, for ourselves, for postdocs and PhD students, for lab staff and for undergraduates. An expanded version of this document is available on the wiki.
Everyone
We’re lucky to be surrounded by talented colleagues from diverse backgrounds. Our expectation is that everyone will contribute to a respectful, open, positive and productive work environment.
Gülşen and Matt
We aim to ensure our labs carry out rigorous science that addresses important research questions, to support students and staff in our labs in their personal and career development, and to provide a respectful and supportive environment for everyone in our labs. We encourage everyone to maintain a healthy work-life balance, take holidays and pay attention to long-term career development as well as immediately project goals.
Postdocs, research staff and PhD students
Postdocs and PhD students should expect to lead projects addressing questions within the big picture goals of the Sürmeli and Nolan labs; we encourage collaboration and co-leads where this helps address an important goal. We expect research staff to play important roles contributing to the delivery of research projects. We hope that you will take opportunities to contribute collaboratively to other lab projects and to training of junior lab members, and we expect you to make the our labs a collaborative and intellectually engaging environment.
Masters and undergraduate students
We strongly encourage you to take advantage of your time in the lab to learn from other people about what they are doing. You will usually work with a postdoc or PhD student on a specific question as part of a larger project. This person will provide you with lab training needed to address your project goals
Publication policies
Preprints and journals
We aim to share all manuscripts as preprints before submitting to a journal. Which journals to submit to is a joint decision between first and lead author(s). Our preference is to submit to non-profit journals with a strong commitment to open science (e.g. eLife). We recognise that scientific job and funding evaluation is far from perfect and will submit elsewhere if the first author(s) prefer.
Data and code
We aim to share all data and code, see data & code.
Authorship
We support use of the CRedIT taxonomy for documenting author contributions to research papers.Qualificaton for authorship requires meeting at least one of the CRedIT criteria. In determining position on authorship lists we follow the convention that the first author(s) have usually carried out most of the key experiments and provide strong intellectual drive, the senior authors have provided supervision, leadership and direction, and intermediate authors have contributed consistent with the CRedIT criteria. When multiple people have made substantial contributions of key experiments and ideas to a project, and where publishing these contributions as a single study is likely to lead to a more impactful paper, then the major contributors will share joing or equal contributing first author status. If at any stage of a project you would like to discuss authorship issues then please mention this to Matt or Gülşen. We aim that all authorship decisions are made collaboratively and with the agreement of all authors. In the even of unresolvable differences then Matt or Gülşen will have responsibility for the final decision.
