Science Buzz Lunch, September 30, 2013
Topics discussed included:
1) Uri Alon's recent TED talk, in which he describes getting lost in a "cloud" of confusion and depression repeatedly as a graduate student when his research got stuck and he lost all sense of which way to turn in order to start making progress again. He then goes on to explain some general principles he found helpful for himself, and later for his students, to get out of such unavoidable clouds. These principles included generally responding to suggestions with "Yes, and...." rather than arguing against them.
Alon is involved in improvisational theater as a hobby, and has used insights from this hobby to inspire his approach to guiding and motivating scientific research efforts.
2) How do researchers identify the causative agent of a newly emerging disease? One of our attendees descibed his reading about how the tick-borne virus causing SFTS (Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome) was recently identified.
Topics discussed included:
1) Uri Alon's recent TED talk, in which he describes getting lost in a "cloud" of confusion and depression repeatedly as a graduate student when his research got stuck and he lost all sense of which way to turn in order to start making progress again. He then goes on to explain some general principles he found helpful for himself, and later for his students, to get out of such unavoidable clouds. These principles included generally responding to suggestions with "Yes, and...." rather than arguing against them.
Alon is involved in improvisational theater as a hobby, and has used insights from this hobby to inspire his approach to guiding and motivating scientific research efforts.
2) How do researchers identify the causative agent of a newly emerging disease? One of our attendees descibed his reading about how the tick-borne virus causing SFTS (Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome) was recently identified.
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