Below are links to posts (click on the underlined text), videos, and downloadable guides to help steer you on your exciting journey! Also, much of this can be found on my Resources page. Video walk-through of guide: https://youtu.be/s9PGb4IWp_Y
Know what you’re getting yourself into
- What is biochemistry? And what do biochemists do?
- video: https://youtu.be/FA-aaI5u_vg
- O-chem vs. Biochem – oh so related, yet oh so different!
- video: https://youtu.be/jQmyQGGFuWY
- What is structural biology? And what do structural biologists do?
- video: https://youtu.be/1x_J1jBbseo
- Advice for people starting out in science
- video: https://youtu.be/N1loaESUQCA
Review what you should ideally already know
- Key functional groups video
- O-chem for biochem review
- video: https://youtu.be/X9_ppqPmfWE
- Thermodynamics review for biochemistry
- video: https://youtu.be/aQRs_ymT8Ks
- Working with concentrations & metric conversions
- video: https://youtu.be/A-J7kdLNb8c
- downloadable guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7pff7cEpJTvr-IADLwdwwFOlEDdz8Ny/view?usp=sharing
- Learn word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes)
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/biochemistry_word_parts
- video: https://youtu.be/XpKGEfoRX68
Get a sense of perspective
Focus on the important concepts
- Things to focus on in biochemistry (my recommendations, at least)
- downloadable outline: https://bit.ly/biochemoutline
- video walkthrough of outline: https://youtu.be/ptCaren3byM
- Key biochemistry equations
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/keybiochemequationguide
- video: https://youtu.be/g0fm4P46nlk
- Biochemistry things worth memorizing
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/biochemistrytomemorize
- video: https://youtu.be/jDUAsrlcgdE
Study strategically
- Study suggestions
- video: https://youtu.be/Na6DjhmyKA0
- Making mindmaps
- video: https://youtu.be/7XrjvQnmAxY
- Googling strategically
- video: https://youtu.be/Dd6Io3MMn54
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/3EcphjV
Read lots – it takes practice!
- Get familiar with the layout of science articles
- Learn the logistics: peer review, publishing process, preprints, and open access
- video: https://youtu.be/vjr3ANdiYHo
- Reading science articles strategically – approach papers with purpose
- video: https://youtu.be/3we4u8NkyFk
- More advice for reading science articles
- video: https://youtu.be/FaheM4hBG4E
- Download/sign up for and use reference management software like Mendeley and Zotero
- video: https://youtu.be/p2G0LZThsfA
Familiarize yourself with resources to help along the way
- Key biochemistry databases
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/3RYWlS6
- video: https://youtu.be/ZyLOWqZazgc
- Key biochemistry (etc.) resources
- video: https://youtu.be/aScGgkCH3u4
- Structural biology resources
- downloadable guide: https://bit.ly/structural_biology
- video: https://youtu.be/hAe2ksx-cVI
- Practical advice on various things
- Learn the slang
- My glossary
- Spreadsheet of topics I’ve covered with links to posts & videos
- Guide to my resources
For those starting out in the lab…
- Overview of lab techniques
- video: https://youtu.be/ukRBko6wV48
- YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUWsCDtjESrGlFUCaizromCCk1-z2-GMQ
- techniques page: http://bit.ly/labtechniques
- A “Quick Start Guide” for starting off in research with good habits
- video: https://youtu.be/XDJM2E_UjNQ
- downloadable guide: guide
- Staying organized when sciencing
- video: https://youtu.be/l6WqL0RKBXg
- downloadable guide: staying_organized
- Advice for experimenters in training
- video: https://youtu.be/Q7oOeDvdcOE
- Downloadable guide to key lab calculations: https://bit.ly/importantlabmath
Learn about grad school if you want to
- Lots of posts here: Posts pertaining to scientists-in-training