This year started with a fun challenge, to write a collaborative KAW grant with a close colleague, Katharina Lahl. Katha is a true mucosal immunologist and cool person. We began working together for the first time over two years ago as teachers in the immunology course for Master students in the Biomedicine program. It didn’t …
Tag: Writing
What makes a good writer
Writing a paper represents the ultimate step of our work, the jewel on top of our scientific crown. We condense years of experiments, failures, hypothesis and models in a few-page-long manuscript and the impact of our research depends on how good we write it. Unfortunately, I will admit I’ve always been intimidated by writing. Whether …
Editing a manuscript
Stijn and I are in the process of editing a manuscript that has been a looong time in the making. We had submitted it for the first time last summer to a prestigious journal and, after extensive review, it was ultimately rejected. The four reviewers' comments were fair and, after briefly licking our wounds, we …
How I start writing
When I entered biomedical research as a PhD student, I had no idea that writing would play such an instrumental part in my career. Luckily, my PhD advisor drilled into me the importance of writing from day one (Thanks Tim!). Now that I am a PI, writing is practically all I do. In the creative …
