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Why do give such a talk? 训练自己尽早成为一个全面的科学家 训练的目标是什么？ 如何评价学生 How do NIH panels evaluate postdoctoral fellowship applicants? Example of the evaluation of a good student Example of the evaluation of a weaker student What are the pre-requisites to be a successful graduate student? High GPA? Great GRE score? Wealth of your family? Type of undergraduate college? Fudan vs others? Rao Yi’s argument More about your college grades Good grades in high school and college are far from sufficient. In fact, they are not even necessary. There are other important traits. Tom Cech: 1989 Noble Prize in ChemistryPresident of Howard Hughes Medical Inst Professor at the University of Colorado Example: Graig Hunter- Professor at Harvard What besides the grades for him? More about grades What are the pre-requisites to have the potential to be trained into a good scientist ? Graduate school is not for everyone How to make sure that is what your want? Have some research experience first. Learn to address good scientific questions This is a major objective of your training in graduate school. Big question 1: leading the field Level of the fields The “Culture” created by Perutz at MRC Brenner Benzer’s “ridiculous” exploratory vision What was Brenner’s thought? What did Brenner do? In 1965, Sydney Brenner chose a nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, as a promising model animal He published his first paper in Genetics in 1974. Since then, knowledge has accumulated to the extent that C. elegans is now probably the most completely understood metazoan in terms of anatomy, genetics, development, and behavior. Big Question Example 2 Apply technology to study important problems Writing a research proposal Question yourself Push your advisor? Three factors in choosing a lab/advisor How did I select my thesis laboratory Went with the questions on histones Why should we do genetics on histones? Simple Results Publications About taking risk Conflict with our system and society I chickened ou