Be on time to all meetings, and give at least 24 hours’ notice if you can’t attend.
One-on-one meetings
- All graduate students and postdocs have weekly 30-minute one-on-ones. (Mentoring someone yourself? See Mentoring.)
- Submit the Weekly Check-In Slack workflow by 7:00am on the day of your 1:1. It takes about three to five minutes and covers five things:
- Accomplishments and learnings: what progress or learning happened this week.
- Blockers and challenges: what slowed you down, and what help would unblock you.
- Next-week priorities: your top priorities, plus the first smallest next step.
- Next deadline: the exact date(s), whether you are on track, and what would make it a “yes.”
- Requests for Christina: questions, decisions, feedback, introductions, resources, and so on.
- Need more than 30 minutes, or a one-off meeting? Arrange it with Christina over email or Slack in advance.
- Did course work or other life events get in the way this week? Not an issue! Let Christina know; we will cancel and pick back up next week. Please still submit your Slack check-in.
Once a year there is also a longer progress review, in addition to the weekly meetings: graduate students complete the UC Davis Student Progress Assessment with focused one-hour one-on-ones in June, and postdocs prepare a year-end review (see the graduate student and postdoc start guides).
Lab meetings
- During the academic year, we meet every week with a mix of research updates, lab upkeep meetings, and professional development.
- During the summer quarter, we meet every week but we alternate between research updates and journal club.
- All lab members are expected to attend.
- Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars present their research roughly twice a year.
- Present both your results and successes and the challenges you faced getting there. Sharing what went wrong helps destigmatize failure, a necessary practice in research, and often leads to better ideas from the room.
- Give presenters your attention and follow our discussion guidelines.
Journal club
We meet every two weeks to discuss a new article. See Journal club for the format and discussion norms.
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