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Background: My professor joined the university in February 2009 and three months later, in May 2009, I contacted him to see if I could work in his lab. I was his first student/lab assistant and we essentially set up the lab. It's been almost two years now and I'll be working with him over the upcoming fall semester as well.
He is planning to publish a methods paper (on isolating synaptic vesicles from cow brains) this summer or early next fall based on the last two years of work. I've pretty much been there every step along the way but I was more of an assistant; he would come up with ideas, etc. and I would help implement them and sometimes suggest minor improvements. I setup a lot of the machine, software and equipment we use in the lab.
My question is, firstly, whether I should ask about authorship on the paper and, secondly, how I should go about asking? Any advice? This is my first and only lab I've worked in... so I don't really know how such things are handled.
He is planning to publish a methods paper (on isolating synaptic vesicles from cow brains) this summer or early next fall based on the last two years of work. I've pretty much been there every step along the way but I was more of an assistant; he would come up with ideas, etc. and I would help implement them and sometimes suggest minor improvements. I setup a lot of the machine, software and equipment we use in the lab.
My question is, firstly, whether I should ask about authorship on the paper and, secondly, how I should go about asking? Any advice? This is my first and only lab I've worked in... so I don't really know how such things are handled.