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Settling in: the first four years of a lab leader

Beth Penrose describes her experiences starting a lab, recruiting staff and creating a research philosophy.
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  1. Nikki Forrester

    1. Nikki Forrester is a science journalist based in Davis, West Virginia.

Agronomist Beth Penrose moved from the United Kingdom to Australia in 2017 to start her own research group at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. She tells Nature what advice she’d offer to people starting out as principal investigators (PIs).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01330-2

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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