Download Appendix 4 Hypothetical One-on-One Graduate Student Weekly

You’re Hired! Now What?
Mohamed A. F. Noor
APPENDIX 4
Hypothetical One-on-One Graduate Student
Weekly Meeting Agenda
This example is fictitious, but it is modeled on my typical meeting agendas. Agendas are kept online in Google Docs
and are collaborative. In the example here, items in all-capital-letters were supposedly written by the student (in
reality, we use different colors). Such a collaborative document, prepared organically over the course of the week,
makes these meetings far more organized, since most of the quick queries are already answered in writing, and we
can both know going into the meeting what each of us wants to discuss at greater length. Further, nothing “falls off
the radar.” I often make quick updates to the Google Doc during the meeting itself to remind me what I want to
touch on next time, and then update it with more detail after the student leaves.
JONES/NOOR MEETING AGENDA FEBRUARY 30, 2012
General
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Confirmed with Smith your proposed committee meeting date in April? YES
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Is that date now finalized? ONE CATCH—TRAVEL BACK FROM ASM
Progress on Sigma Xi grant proposal? MAYBE 1/2 DONE NOW
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Anything I can do to help?
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When is my recommendation letter due? MARCH 15
Had a good meeting with potential postdoc supervisor Johnson? MOSTLY- SOME QUESTIONS
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What are your thoughts on moving there & what you’d do there?
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TAing going well? SO-SO
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QUESTION FOR MOHAMED ABOUT SUMMER SALARY
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Any other thoughts/concerns/questions for me?
Genetic Mapping of CHC Difference Project
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Mapped a potential factor on chromosome 2R near band 55
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Developed new genetic markers using available illumine sequence data? YES
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Noted absence of SNPs differentiating the lines last time-- still true? YES
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Hypothesized last time that may be region of suppressed recombination
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Had a chance to look up recombinational profile yet? WORKING ON IT
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What’s left to wrap this part of the project up?
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ONE VERY COOL, UNEXPECTED RESULT TO SHARE!
Started replicate cross to confirm results on January 15.
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Status of that cross? IN PROGRESS
Ecological Effects on CHC Variation Project
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Saw big temperature effect when looking at 16-29°C range
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Fine-tuned yet to look at 25° vs 27°C? NO
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Status?
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Testing for effect of relative humidity— status?
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Testing for effect of barometric pressure
—ON HOLD—
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Identified a means of changing pressure in the incubator to do this?