Is unpublished research worth mentioning?

[woltej1]

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So I did a year of research where we were using immunofluoresence to try and locate a new protein within human cells. I don't think the plan was to publish the results, at least not in this first stage of experiments, but towards the end of the year we started getting funky results with our imaging and when we looked at the company we bought our antibodies from they had released a new version of it. We still went ahead and presented the results at multiple conferences, but we didn't publish anything on it.

 

[SN12357]

It's still research experience you can put on your app. Most people have research without having any pubs. Your conference presentations DO counts as pubs, though, and you can list them as such if you were a coauthor.

 

[DrCharlemagne]

So I did a year of research where we were using immunofluoresence to try and locate a new protein within human cells. I don't think the plan was to publish the results, at least not in this first stage of experiments, but towards the end of the year we started getting funky results with our imaging and when we looked at the company we bought our antibodies from they had released a new version of it. We still went ahead and presented the results at multiple conferences, but we didn't publish anything on it.

If you drafted an abstract, put together a poster and can tell an interesting story about your work, then yes it's worth mentioning. Science can be a b**** like that sometimes, even for the best of the best. It's the cost of doing something new, and most of us know that.

 

[Xenoblade]

It's still research experience you can put on your app. Most people have research without having any pubs. Your conference presentations DO counts as pubs, though, and you can list them as such if you were a coauthor.

I wish I knew that before. I would like 4 pubs then in addition to a real pub.

 

[Microglia]

Abstracts are abstracts, not quite manuscripts but definitely should be listed on an app. I've heard an adcom say they are "about 1/4 of a manuscript in weight." Research is always worth mentioning unless you blew up the lab on accident and would have a horrible reference.

 

[SN12357]

I wish I knew that before. I would like 4 pubs then in addition to a real pub.

So I'm asking out of curiosity, not accusatory, but had you never seen a professor or graduate student's cv? @Microglia is right that conference abstracts (talks or posters) are not the same as having a manuscript but they definitely count as publications. An academic's cv is divided into sections, "Original Articles" "Abstracts" "Chapters" etc....

 

[Xenoblade]

So I'm asking out of curiosity, not accusatory, but had you never seen a professor or graduate student's cv? @Microglia is right that conference abstracts (talks or posters) are not the same as having a manuscript but they definitely count as publications. An academic's cv is divided into sections, "Original Articles" "Abstracts" "Chapters" etc....

Nope.

Oh well. I have one real pub, 6 posters and talks. Half of my Amcas would be publications alone then.

 

[Xenoblade]

Needless to say, I love research.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Nope.

Oh well. I have one real pub, 4 posters and 2 talks. Half of my Amcas would be publications alone then.

I wouldn't make a separate entry for each of those. You could make a separate experience for the actual manuscript since that's more impressive (especially if you are close to the top of the author list), but I would either just group your posters and talks into one experience slot or just mention them in the context of your entry about research experience. For example, you could have an entry for your work in a particular lab where you describe what you did, what you learned from it, and how many posters you gave. At least thats what I did.

 

[Xenoblade]

I mentioned it, but I didn't list the number of them because I didn't think it mattered. Lol, I don't even know how to market myself.