TLP #7 : It's okay to be wrong - Wendy Bickmore

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In this episode Wendy Bickmore shares her personal thoughts about mentoring, recruiting, publishing and making mistakes

• We discuss about establishing and maintaining relationships with mentors
• Wendy offers thought about how to recruit members to your team
• She also comments on the craziness of the current models of scientific publishing and peer review
• Wendy says sometime you just have to learn to ‘wing it’ and accept compromises
• She tells us how she chooses priorities that will make an impact
• We discusses how she became the institute director and her leadership vision
• Wendy also tells us about her need for quiet time and learning to be a better listener

She mentions these labs and institutions :

• MRC Human Genetics Unit (MRC-HGU)
• University of Edinburgh
• The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
• University of Oxford
• Douglas Higgs
• PLoS Genetics

To find out more about Wendy visit her lab website and her Twitter account

• https://www.ed.ac.uk/mrc-human-genetics-unit/research/bickmore-group
• https://twitter.com/wendy_bickmore

To find out more about Renaud :

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

To find out more about Jonathan :

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

To learn more about the soundtrack :
Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler
https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/
https://twitter.com/amariamusique

To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan :

• Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre
• LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique
• LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20

More about the soundtrack :
Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/