16  Credit

16.1 Contributors

• Esther Velasquez
• Anna Nguyen
• Julianna Hsing
• Brandon Nguyen Lieu
• Amy Mann

NOTE: Since July 2026, Claude has been used to clean up my typos and formatting errors. All mistakes are still mine.

16.2 Inspiration

This manual was inspired by many other scientists’ lab manuals. This is a (likely incomplete) list of the ones I drew most heavily from:

• Dan Larremore at CU Boulder
• Jade Benjamin-Chung at Stanford
• Maria Glymour’s group at Boston University
• The Misinformation Lab at Deakin University
• The Fay Lab at UMass Dartmouth
• The Bhatt Lab at Stanford
• The Social Self and Neuroscience Lab (SSNL) at Stanford
• John Boothroyd’s Lab at Stanford

16.3 Key References

Several published articles informed the structure and content of this manual. For additional readings on topics covered throughout, see the Further Reading chapter.

• Tendler, B. C., Welland, M., Miller, K. L., & WIN Handbook Team. (2023). Why every lab needs a handbook. eLife, 12, e88853.
• Maestre, F. T. (2019). Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(4), e1006914.
• Wilson, G., Bryan, J., Cranston, K., Kitzes, J., Nederbragt, L., & Teal, T. K. (2017). Good enough practices in scientific computing. PLOS Computational Biology, 13(6), e1005510.
• Heise, V., et al. (2023). Ten simple rules for implementing open and reproducible research practices after attending a training course. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(1), e1010750.
• Schnell, S. (2015). Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(9), e1004385.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2019). The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
• Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018). Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education. Nature Biotechnology, 36, 282–284.
• Stanford’s Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) has produced several useful guides on advising expectations, mentoring agreements, and student-advisor relationships. Many of these informed the Mentorship chapter and the Expectations chapter.