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Expanding your lab
As your resources and staff grow, you may need to expand your lab. Since space is a
limited resource, remember to discuss the possibility of expansion when negotiating
your startup package.
Young faculty need to address the possibility of expanding.
What happens in three years when I get my first or second grant?
Where do I expand? Will that second space be on another floor?
Because geography will make a difference, you don't want your
lab to be split up. You want it to be a fused space.
Miljan Simonovic
Miljan Simonovic suggests every new PI should have a long-term plan in
mind and think about the possibility of expanding in the future.
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