Research paper authorship as an undergraduate: how does it happen?

molliebatmit
Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:52:12 +0000

^Yup, it was a project with a lot of different facets. Without looking at the author list, I think first was my postdoc, second was a grad student in the lab who had done electrophysiology with third, who was a postdoc in another lab. Fourth was a tech who did much of the molecular work, and I did the behavior work. Sixth was a postdoc who had finished the elecrophysiology after third left the country, seventh was third’s PI, and eighth was my PI.

It was a project that had spanned about five or six years before it was finally published, and I’d only come in for the last year.