The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. The OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the entire project publicly accessible for broad dissemination, while enabling connections to the many scientific tools researchers already use.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. The OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the entire project publicly accessible for broad dissemination, while enabling connections to the many scientific tools researchers already use.
The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.
In this workshop, we will dive into the basics of project management by examining the formal structures of project management. The Project Management Institute defines five broad stages of a project lifecycle: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Closure. We will discuss these stages and introduce some of the language professional project managers use to describe them. We will also discuss strategies and share tools for tackling each step as a scientific trainee juggling multiple projects and the expectations of an advisor/mentor.
The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce the launch of a new workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.
Management is a discipline created by and for knowledge workers and has shaped how we have grown our economies and our higher educational systems. Despite this, management as a discipline is largely unexplored in most Ph.D. programs, outside of business schools. We must all ask ourselves, in our modern fully globalized world—with vast unchecked degree inflation and slipping standards—how do we set up students for success? In this brief talk, I will highlight the benefits of integrating the field of management into our terminal degree training programs. Exploring the contemporary roles of industrial scientists and the challenges they face to engage the audience in ideating a path to create more competitive knowledge workers.
Presenter Bio:
Dr. Wolfe holds a PhD. in Structural Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics from Syracuse University. During his graduate work Aaron moved from single molecule biophysics to high throughput assay development of detergent membrane protein complex interactions to fill the lack of quantification that plagues the field. In this time Aaron also founded Finger Lakes Bio LLC. where he worked as CEO. Finger Lakes Bio licensed a proprietary expression tag from SUNY Research Foundation that allows for the scaled manufacturing of complex proteins in E. Coli. Finger Lakes Bio then was acquired by Ichor Therapeutics where Aaron became partner and Chief Science Officer. Upon becoming a partner at Ichor therapeutics Aaron took part in over 14 Million dollars of fundraising across the Ichor portfolio of 7 independent companies. As a biophysicist with over 15 years of experience Aaron continues to look at the world and ask how we can illuminate scientific black boxes as fast as possible.
The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.
In the first workshop in our series, we discussed the fundamentals of project management, mostly framed around the traditional “waterfall” project methodology. These foundational concepts are important for practicing scientists and engineers, but the linear waterfall framework does not typically offer enough flexibility for the fast-paced, changeable realities of discovery-based, innovative projects like research and technology development. Thus, the last two decades have seen the emergence of project management methodologies designed to formalize processes needed to manage rapidly-evolving research and development projects. In this workshop, Jeremy Steinbacher, Director of Operations in the BioInspired Institute, will discuss the general principles around these “extreme” project frameworks as well as specific methodologies like Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and others. Though many such frameworks were created with software development in mind, they offer valuable lessons for workers conducting fundamental research.
The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.
Project management requires the management of diverse stakeholders, often with conflicting priorities and interests. For STEM trainees, stakeholders include funding agencies, colleagues in your lab, collaborators, your advisor, and importantly, yourself. In this final installment of the project management series, Dr. Kelsey Moody, founder and CEO of Ichor Therapeutics, will discuss the management of these various stakeholders’ expectations with a specific focus on communication strategies, value generation, managing conflicting interests, and risk mitigation.
