Professional Skills

Manage Up is a series of workshops that will help you develop the skills and savvy to successfully navigate professional situations both during your time at UCSF and in your future, including important decisions, challenging conversations, and the power differentials that exist in scientific training. Workshops are intended for students and postdocs at different stages, as indicated.  Effectively managing up could include avoiding difficult situations and navigating it skillfully.

Manage Up workshop series

Advice for any scientific talk:
This recording and these slides are from Naledi Saul's seminar How to Handle Q&A and Audience Interruptions.
This website contains links to excellent resources on designing and practicing your talk.
This handout contains resources on structuring your argument, handling Q&A, tips for non-native English speakers, and guides for navigating both long and short talks.
This video from iBiology and Susan McConnell (Stanford) takes you through designing effective scientific presentations.

Conference Talks:
This rubric describes the features of an effective conference talk. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!

Job Talks:
This rubric evaluates the features of an effective job talk for a position at an R1 institution. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!
These slides describe an effective job talk for a position at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).
This rubric evaluates the features of an effective job talk for a position at a PUI. Give it to your labmates/audience when you're giving a practice talk!
These slides outlines the features of an effective job talk for a position in industry.

Posters:
Check out this website for multiple resources on figure and poster design as well as how to print posters at UCSF.

Research articles

Visit our Writing Research Articles resources page for guidance and annotated samples for each section of a research article.

Resources for Writing Research Articles  

Grants

Grants support the work of both faculty and trainees and as such are a key component of scientific training regardless of your career path. View videos of lectures and panels, download slides from speakers and panelists, and make an appointment to view successful grant applications on our grant writing resources page.

Resources for Writing Research Grants

All the information, samples, and tips you need for successful networking and informational interviewing are on our webpage linked below:

Informational interviews and building your professional network

The TRAIN-UP series provides life science research trainees with the knowledge and skills to mentor, train and supervise students and staff members from diverse backgrounds. These skills are critical for future faculty and for scientists who expect to manage people in any career path. Participants can take the 12-hour course, get support while mentoring, and take on a CCSF Bridge to Bioscience intern and receive a small stipend.

TRAIN-UP workshop series