Why:
We want to continue our Summer Writing Exercise by delving into figures! You can help your readers better appreciate your work by making your figures easy to understand.
Challenge:
- Read Ten Simple Rules to Better Figures. Alternatively, seek out some other guide to data visualization or scientific visualization. Several are available for rental or online through CSU libraries.
- Read a paper in your field. For my lab, a few suggestions are listed below.
- Identify 1 - 3 sub-figures (not the whole figure) that you want to tackle.
- Put together no more than 4 slides on how you suggest the figure and/or legend could be improved. Make mention of the advice you read that helped you come to these suggestions. Try to keep your presentation succinct so everyone can have a turn.
When/Where:
Thursday, July 19, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
MRB 230
Possible papers for people in my lab:
Please try to coordinate amongst yourselves to avoid overlap
- Markmiller et al., 2018. Context-dependent and disease-specific diversity in protein interactions within stress granules. Volume 172, Issue 3, 25 January 2018, Pages 590-604.e13
- Youn et al., 2018. High-Density Proximity Mapping Reveals the Subcellular Organization of mRNA-Associated Granules and Bodies. Volume 69, Issue 3, 1 February 2018, Pages 517-532.e11
- Both are reviewed in: Alberti, S. 2018. Guilty by Association: Mapping Out the Molecular Sociology of Droplet Compartments. Volume 69, Issue 3, 1 February 2018, Pages 349-351