Format

The format of the powerpoint should satisfy the following:
Question 1: What have you accomplished in the previous week?
Here show your results and report your main findings and conclusions, describe your experiments in detail, along with you results. You can include what worked and what did not.
Question 2: Where does this fit in a paper that you are working on? Which figure?
Question 3: What are your main challenges and what experiments will you do the following week?
You need to show strategic thinking here and directions to show problems.
Question 4: Updates on the papers, grants, patents, collaborations. If there is no grant, patent, collaboration that you’re dealing with so far, then write N/A.
Provide deliverable deadlines for drafts for all tasks and papers in a table.
Question 5: If anyone is working for you:
How well are your students performing? Are those that are not following the safety rules or wasting resources or wasting your time?
Question 6: This one is open ended and allows you to discuss and make suggestions that are relevant to science or efficiency of your current operation. We are not looking for excuses on these slides, more we are looking for a future vision.

Goals

These reports serve two main goals:
– Help you review your own progress in a self-mirroring way.
– Shape your recommendation letters in the future.

• If your reports won’t trigger any questions from the PI, then you are probably not doing justice to yourself in terms of collecting the PI’s feedback.
• Overall, these reports are carefully examined and establishes your capabilities as a writer, thinker and a researcher. It is in your best interest to reflect your best progress in these reports.