J. M. Boss Laboratory Career Development - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Academic Scientist at Work

Dr. Boss and Dr. Susan Eckert have co-authored the book, "Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the biomedical research career." ASAW leads the reader from finding an academic position to working their way up the academic ladder to promotion with tenure. Topics include finding a job, obtaining research funds, management of your lab group, research scholarship and writing, teaching, and academic service. A large number of worksheets and files designed to help the academic scientist ask the right management questions and to organize his/her work are contained in the accompanying CD. The second edition - May 2006 - was updated from the original published version and contains the dozen Next Wave articles. The book can be obtained from the publisher, Amazon.com, or Barnes&Noble.com online stores.

Graduate Programs at Emory

Emory University offers a number of top-notch graduate programs. Students interested in working towards their PhD with Dr. Boss should apply to the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) or the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMP) graduate programs. All students must apply to the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS), which serves as our graduate administrative structure.

Next Wave Articles

Dr. Boss and Eckert have written a column for Sciences former Next Wave career development site. The links to these articles are listed with their titles. The articles can also be found in ASAW 2nd edition.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. 2003. To Teach or Not to Teach? Science’s Next Wave – On line Journal. May 9, 2003.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. 2003. Publishing @ the Top-of-the-Heap. Science’s Next Wave – On line Journal. July 11, 2003.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. I can’t believe they didn’t like It! Part I – Manuscripts. Science’s Next
Wave – On line Journal. September 12, 2003.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. I can’t believe they didn’t like It! Part II – Grants. Science’s Next Wave – On line Journal December 12, 2003.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. Giving it 110%. Science’s Next Wave – On line Journal, February 12, 2004.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. Where’d my day go? Science’s Next Wave – On line Journal. April 9, 2004.
*Cited in Top 2004 Next Wave articles.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. Staffing the Lab. Science’s Next Wave – Online Journal. August 12, 2004.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. The Red Herring. Science’s Next Wave – Online journal. October 6, 2004.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. The Job Talk. Science’s Next Wave – Online journal. December 9, 2004.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. Greedy Gus – Negotiating an Assistant Professorship. Science’s Next
Wave – Online journal. February 11, 2005.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. On being a reviewer — To accept or reject? Science’s Next Wave —Online journal. April 8, 2005.

Boss, J.M. and Eckert, S.H. To Fund or Not to Fund? Science’s Next Wave —Online journal. May 12,
2005.

Haynes, L., Pfeffer, S., Boss, J.M., Kavathas, P., Kuchroo, V. 2006. Lab Management: Insights for the new investigator. AAI 2006 Meeting Workshop Summary. Nature Immunology (invited manuscript).

Academic Scientists Career Consultants

This consulting service provides advice to Deans and Chairpersons on how to organize and strategically develop career development policies and workshops. If interested in these services, please contact Dr. Boss.