With the objective of emphasizing the potential of recovery of resources from sewage management, a lab-scale research study was carried out at the University of Padova in order to evaluate the performances of oleaginous plants (suitable for biodiesel production) in the phytotreatment of source separated yellow and grey waters.
This is EMBO's second year running a lab management course.
Those who teach lab management and still run a lab say that teaching the courses is helpful in their own labs.
"Make sure you mentor students, or assume oversight of a lab management issue, such as radiation safety," she advises.
Currently there is no official credential you can earn to qualify to work as a lab management trainer.
Even grant writing, presentations, and lab management, skills inherent to a lab's success, are only now beginning to be addressed by training programs.
She had practiced the difficult conversation during a lab management course she'd taken in 2009, and she had a script ready.
In choosing a lab management course assuming you have access to more than one important aspects to consider are the time commitment and the format.
Take a look at the new book from HHMI/Burroughs Wellcome Fund, based on a lab management course those two organizations presented (with an assist from Science's Next Wave) two summers ago.
So, in 2002, the Institute partnered with the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (BWF) to design a lab management course focused on teaching scientists the "people skills" they would need in the future.
Kozlowski attended the course and then, with support from AAAS and ScienceCareers.org, collaborated with three other Philadelphia-area institutions to develop a lab management course for postdocs from all four institutions.
