How to Use Conferences for Your Career: Every PhD Student Needs It

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In this episode, I discuss how you can maximize your conference attendance as a student or postdoc. This episode is especially useful if it's your first time going to a conference, or if you want to bring up this topic with your supervisor. Follow Dr. Andrew Akbashev: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-akbashev/ X: https://x.com/Andrew_Akbashev Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.akbashev/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewakbashev Website: andrewakbashev.com 00:00 - Intro PART 1: How to Approach Your Advisor about Conferences 02:32 - Discussing conference attendance with your advisor 03:15 - Show how valuable it will be for your career 03:42 - Regarding funding & applying in advance 05:08 - Lab policies for conferences PART 2: When you’re planning the attendance 05:30 - Share your plans with group members 06:38 - Give the abstract to your advisor in advance!!! 07:22 - Bigger or smaller conference? 08:19 - Poster or research talk? Or both? 16:33 - Should you present unpublished data or not? 16:51 - Why students & postdocs should attend conferences with unpublished data 17:48 - Submit the abstract while still working on the manuscript 18:10 - Do NOT submit abstract without supervisor’s confirmation 18:23 - Who owns the data and supervises its usage 20:10 - The content of an abstract PART 3: What to do after the abstract is accepted 20:33 - Announcing about your talk / poster 21:18 - Using a conference to explore other groups 23:20 - Politeness is key when you schedule meetings 24:41 - Scheduling personal meetings with professors 26:41 - Let others know about your talk 27:22 - Which talks to attend? 29:33 - Preparing your pitch 32:30 - Preparing your talk PART 4: What to do when you’re at the event 33:08 - Don’t hang out with group members too much 34:16 - Don’t sit only in your own session 35:36 - Visit industry exhibition & talks 36:09 - Attend faculty candidate poster sessions 36:44 - Check out mentorship sessions 37:04 - Attend social events 38:00 - Collaborations 39:34 - Ask questions & follow up on them 40:20 - Explore other groups 41:01 - Meet your PI’s collaborators 41:34 - Write down important info ❗️ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: This video is protected under Fair Use (Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976). Allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright law that might otherwise be infringing. This video is created for educational and non-profit purposes. All rights and credit go to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.