Dr. Anita Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University. In 2018 she won the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science. She talks to us about her experiences mentoring students, building a team dynamic in the lab, and resolving conflict between lab members. We also talk at length about grant writing and how to teach it in a formalized way. Some of the papers we discussed are linked below:

Mentorship Award and Profile: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00039-7

Article on mentoring by Dr. Corbett: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-019-0173-1

Ghost mentoring: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Ghost-Advising/242729

Teaching grant writing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tra.12398

Credits:

Dr. Anita Corbett for taking time out of her busy day to sit down with us.

Host – Bejan Saeedi

Co-Host and Audio Mastering – Joe Behnke

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Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh

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