According to the participants, the course raised their awareness of the most critical issues in the management of lab personnel.
Academic success is often defined by papers and funding, but these achievements are based on other skills such as time management, networking, negotiation, and the management of lab personnel.
"Horizontal" elements of our HIV project, including capacity building for the clinic staff, better supply chain management, strengthening of lab functions and infrastructure and improvement in patient satisfaction are the potential mechanisms for the positive trend in non-HIV services.
Rather than directly oppose the activists, Marburger created policies that improved the environmental management of the lab as well as community involvement and transparency.
"What I want to do," Mr. Richardson said in an interview, "is to use what the University of California does best, and take away what it doesn't do well, to enhance the overall management of the labs and perhaps establish a pattern of joint ventures with the university".
That reverses a similar 1990 poll, in which 64% opposed continued management of the labs, which UC has run for 60 years.
In 1997, he became president of Brookhaven Science Associates, the public-private partnership that took over management of the Brookhaven lab after a reactor leak and management missteps led to the ouster of the previous management team.
Core LIMS functions include the management of personnel, equipment, lab supplies, reagents, samples, workflows and experimentally derived metadata and data.
Most of these jobs have minimal lab involvement, with the exception of lab management, lab course design, and technical services.
Each fellow is assigned a mentor who helps them learn the fundamentals of lab management, purchasing equipment, applying for grants, and so on.
Reck-Peterson and other alumni of lab management training in the Boston area get together from time to time, too, since they trust each other and have a common approach to addressing lab issues.
