First Author Paper Update?

[mdeast]

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So I just found out that my PI from college (graduated '08) is publishing my thesis along with some extra data and making me first author. We're submitting to Developmental Biology after I edit a few things (submitting in 2 weeks) so hopefully it will be published sometime in the next few months. Is there a way I can add this to my already submitted apps? I'm complete everywhere, would an update letter be appropriate, or should I wait until it's actually accepted.

 

[mdeast]

Do you think this is better to just bring up in interviews?

 

[Jolt21]

Do you think this is better to just bring up in interviews?

is this the first submission? good chance it's not accepted (maybe no feedback even) by interviews. If your PI has an in at the journal that can speed it up or is looking out for it, then that may really help. Otherwise just say its submitted at interviews.

Good job though. Hopefully it can be accepted by the later interviews. Congrats. 👍

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

Congratulations. I think you should wait till the paper is actually accepted before updating schools. Otherwise, I guess you could just update or bring up in interview the fact that you have a paper submitted.

 

[Naijaba]

I agree with the former posters. Submitting a paper is a good accomplishment but it is a *long* way from being accepted. The two papers that I submitted with my research lab took 8 months and 6 months be accepted (the first was rejected and revised so it took longer).

 

[mdeast]

I agree with the former posters. Submitting a paper is a good accomplishment but it is a *long* way from being accepted. The two papers that I submitted with my research lab took 8 months and 6 months be accepted (the first was rejected and revised so it took longer).

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we're not accepted the first time around. Although, I've already presented this work at multiple conferences to extremely positive peer feedback...slash, my PI just spent the summer in Cambridge working in the lab of the researcher who first defined the field I work in...who looked at the paper and said it was convincing. She's also on the review board. I figure I have to send an update letter for my hold at Chicago anyway and might as well mention it.

 

[amph119]

I'd update them on submission and then again upon eventual/hopeful publication. It couldn't hurt. Just make sure you have some more to talk about in that first update letter, as well, other than submission.

 

[mdeast]

I'd update them on submission and then again upon eventual/hopeful publication. It couldn't hurt. Just make sure you have some more to talk about in that first update letter, as well, other than submission.

Yeah, I was gonna update them on some current projects I'm overseeing in lab (and some mentoring i've been doing with undergraduates and a new medical fellow), some new volunteering i've been doing in a free HIV clinic, the publication I'm submitting, and the bioethics class I'm taking in addition to my 50 hour work week, lol. Hopefully that's enough? It is summer and I'll admit I've been enjoying it despite applications.