Pre-congress training course 3
Principal Investigator School

Despite all the training researchers get during grad school and in a postdoc, no one teaches you how to run a productive lab. This workshop will present multiple philosophies towards running a proteomics or mass spectrometry lab given by established professors and PIs. Targeting early career professors, principal investigators, and PI-bound postdocs, this workshop will start with statements from each established panelist on how they got their labs established and predominantly focus on an interactive panel session. The discussion topics will include how to establish a lab community, how to mentor students, how to plan funding, how to manage your attention and focus, and how to prevent burnout. In short, the goal is to teach new and future PIs how to build lasting labs.