Laboratory Management

• Manager’s toolkit at BU
• Guide to hiring
• Employee handbook policies for non-represented, non-faculty personnel
• Research resources at BUMC
• Professional development for staff

Other universities:

• NIH: Collaboration and Team Science
• NCI Team Science Toolkit
• UCI personnel hiring manual
• Starting a New Lab:  Developing New Techniques and Hiring Personnel
  Francisco H. Andrade, Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Courses:

• Laboratory Personnel Management Techniques: Recruiting, Hiring, and Evaluating

Science Magazine articles:

• How to Manage a Lab and Staff
• Project Management for Scientists, (see also Part 1 and Part 2)
• Project Management for Postdocs

Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty
• Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves
• Entering Mentoring, A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists
• How to plan a budget
• Resources for Scientific Management Training

Books and advice:

• Choosing a productive scientific problem
• Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists by Carl M. Cohen, Suzanne L. Cohen
• Laboratory Management: Principles And Processes edited by Denise M. Harmening
• At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker
• At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker
• A Handbook of Recipes, Reagents, and Other Reference Tools for Use at the Bench Volume 1
• A Handbook of Recipes, Reagents, and Other Reference Tools for Use at the Bench Volume 2
• Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench by Dany Spencer Adams
• Safety Sense: A Laboratory Guide