Ten simple rules for surviving an interdisciplinary PhD

Samuel Demharter; Nicholas Pearce; Kylie Beattie; Isabel Frost; Jinwoo Leem; Alistair Martin; Robert Oppenheimer; Cristian Regep; Tammo Rukat; Alexander Skates; Nicola Trendel; David J Gavaghan; Charlotte M Deane; Bernhard Knapp

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005512

Ten simple rules for surviving an interdisciplinary PhD

PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 May 25;13(5):e1005512. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005512. eCollection 2017 May.

Affiliations

¹ Doctoral Training Centre for Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Doctoral Training Centre for Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Doctoral Training Centre for Life Sciences Interface, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴ Doctoral Training Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Career Choice*
Curriculum
Education, Professional / organization & administration*
Interdisciplinary Research / organization & administration*
Research / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

The DTC at the University of Oxford is funded by the EPSRC, BBSRC, and MRC. Grant numbers for the individual programmes are as follows: Systems Biology (EP/G03706X/1), Systems Approaches to Biomedical Sciences (EP/L016044/1, EP/G037280/1), Life Sciences Interface (EP/F500394/1, EP/I017909/1), Biomedical Imaging (EP/L016052/1), Synthetic Biology (EP/L016494/1), Synthesis for Biology and Medicine (EP/L015838/1), Doctoral Training Partnership (BB/M011224/1). The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.