<p>Who has gotten their name in a published scientific research report/paper?</p>
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<li>What type of research?</li>
<li>How did you get involved?</li>
<li>To what extent did you do actual, hands-on research?</li>
<li>How long did it take?</li>
<li>Reccomendations for other students who are interested in doing the same?</li>
<li>How impressive is this to admission officers?</li>
<li>What's more impressive than getting your name published?</li>
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<p>I haven’t been published yet, but our manuscript has been accepted to Cancer Cell. I have 3rd authorship, after 2 PhD students.</p>
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<li>cancer, more specifically we explored a method of inducing targetted death in cancer cells with a certain oncogene.</li>
<li>contacted professor myself</li>
<li>I did computational biology. Basically I didn’t collect any data. I just analysed it. I’m proud of what I did; my professor didn’t really know how to analyse microarray data himself, so he basically gave me a publication which also used microarrays and told me to figure it out.<br></li>
<li>just one summer</li>
<li>Go for it.</li>
<li>honestly don’t know. I didn’t really do it for colleges, anyways.</li>
<li>I_O medals, intel, siemens</li>
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<p>Thanks for you sharing your experience.</p>
<p>Within the next week, I plan on sending e-mails out to a few biology lab researchers at my local univeristy. However, I have very little lab experience outside of school and am uncertain whether they will want someone with so little knowledge on biomedical research. </p>
<p>How much did you know about research before you started at that lab?
Do you have any recommendations of things I could do to prepare? Maybe reading a book of this sort may help: [Amazon.com:</a> Bioinformatics for Dummies (0785555857766): Jean-Michel Claverie, Cedric Notredame: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Dummies-Jean-Michel-Claverie/dp/0764516965/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270619650&sr=1-2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Dummies-Jean-Michel-Claverie/dp/0764516965/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270619650&sr=1-2) </p>
<p>If I get into a book like that early enough, I could even mention in the e-mail that I have done some self-studying on bioinformatics, which would make me a more attractive and slightly more qualified volunteer student.</p>