The gist of group meetings (the science lab kind)
Today I gave my last group meeting! So I’m feeling nostalgic… (and relieved to check one thing off the list during this hectic time!) So here’s the gist on group meetings…
No matter what lab you’re in, group meetings are a key feature. Every week (barring schedule changes due to meetings, etc.) labs typically have “Group Meeting” - a mandatory get-together of all lab members. The details vary from lab to lab but typically…
note: text adapted from past post. blog: https://bit.ly/lab_group_meetings
The meetings start off with “lab biz” where anyone can bring up issues of concern (e.g. have other people been having problems with their sequencing data quality recently?), requests (e.g. close out the browser windows on shared computers), heads-ups (e.g. break room renovation starts week so we’ll need to temporarily move the stuff out)
And then, after this pre-show is the headline event - which can either be a “Research” talk or a “Journal” talk - we have a rotating schedule of who’s turn it is to lead group meeting and it switches off between being assigned to give a research talk and a journal club talk. In my grad school lab we had one person per week. Here we have 2 per week so there’s both a research talk and a journal talk each week. On journal club weeks the person who’s “on” chooses a journal article they found interesting and/or relevant to their work and presents it to the rest of the lab for discussion. On “Research” days the person is was tasked with filling the rest of the lab in on what they’ve been up to.
In my current lab, we also have “subgroup” meetings every other week where everyone in the subgroup gives a quick update in an informal environment and we can talk about progress, stall points, etc. & bounce ideas off of one another
Additionally, there are sometimes “supergroup” meetings you might be involved in, where people from multiple labs studying similar things or using similar techniques rotate through presenting to members of each other.
All these lab meetings can be nerve-wracking, but they’re also super helpful because colleagues often have great suggestions and insight - and it helps you to practice talking about your project to people not quite as familiar with it (when you work on it every day you can get so engrossed in it that it’s easy to dive into discussing results and forget that other people don’t know how you’ve set up the experiment and stuff.
I’m going to miss them! (but not miss when they fell in the middle of an experiment!)
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