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Lab activity

Lab meeting

  • Lab meetings will be held one hour per week to be determined to best accomodate the schedules of the majority of current lab members.
  • All lab members are expected to attend our lab meeting.
  • Everyone will iteratively present their reserach project progresses at lab meeting.
  • Please contact Prof. Zhang in advance if someone is not able to attend due to research business like attending conference or training, etc.

Journal club

Fan will select a paper that is relevant to our lab's interests and cutting-edge. Each lab member will select 1 or 2 figures to present, and lead the discussions. Let's focus on 5 aspects of this paper through discussions:

  • Motivation: why? a needed tool, a knowledge gap, etc?
  • Novelty of methodology: computational biology and machine learning
  • Significant scientific results: systems biology interpretation
  • Relevence to our work: method benchmarking, study design, modeling, logic, etc?
  • Limitations of this work

Subgroup meeting

  • Besides weekly lab meetings, we also organize two subgroup meetings based on our lab's research interests.
  • Each lab member needs to select one subgroup meeting based on their own research interests and career development goals.
  • The two subgroup meetings are: 1) single-cell multi-omics and 2) systems immunology and biology in immune-mediated diseases.
  • Subgroup meetings offer a great opportunity to enhance your knowledge of a particular field through discussing any of your challenges, questions, progresses, and brain-stormings on your project.

One-on-one meeting

  • Weekly one-on-one meetings will be held for each member when they join the lab. We have Thursdays as our 1-1 meeting day!
  • Every member will be assigned one or two major projects.
  • We track everyone's progressed on specific tasks using Trello. So we can generate "TODO" list on everyone's Trello project board after each one-on-one meeting, and we mark the tasks as "Done" by examing it on our next one-on-one meeting. We will break down a "big task" into multiple measureable "small tasks".

Flexible working mode

  • We offer dry lab space where you can conduct your productive research.
  • We believe in each lab member’s ability to best manage their own schedules and complete their research projects and advance their careers.
  • We encourge being on campus between 10:00am and 5:00pm most days will help facilitate collaborative working and get your problems solved in a more efficient manner.

Scientific communication

  • In person: scientific reserach progress meetings and presentations, etc
  • Slack: easy communication on research and lab related work
  • Trello: track progresses on specific tasks on each projects
  • Github: code, analysis, visualization, and electric lab notebook (markdown or jupyter notebook)
  • Email: can be eveything useful and important