POLICY:

• Athanasiadou R, Bankston A, Carlisle M, Niziolek C, McDowell GS. 2018. Assessing the landscape of US postdoctoral salaries, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, Vol. 9 Issue: 2, pp.213-242, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-D-17-00048

Additional information: Originally published as a pre-print December 3, 2017: Athanasiadou R, Bankston A, Carlisle M, Niziolek C, McDowell GS. 2017. Assessing the Landscape of U.S. Postdoctoral Salaries. BioRxiv. 227694; December 3, 2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/227694 (PREPRINT)

• Bankston A, McDowell GS. 2018. Chapter 2 – A Review of Postdoc Reforms in the United States and the Case of the Fair Labor Standards Act Updates of 2016, In The Postdoc Landscape, edited by Audrey Jaeger and Alessandra J. Dinin, Academic Press, 2018, Pages 15-48, ISBN 9780128131695, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813169-5.00002-1 (available online October 21, 2017).

• Pickett C, Bankston A, McDowell GS. 2017. The GSS is an unreliable indicator of biological sciences postdoc population trends. BioRxiv. 171314; December 1, 2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/171314 (PREPRINT).

Additional information: Originally published August 2, 2017. Updated version published December 1, 2017.

• Bankston A, McDowell GS. 2017. Monitoring the compliance of the academic enterprise with the Fair Labor Standards Act. [version 2; referees: 3 approved]. F1000Research 2017, 5:2690 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.10086.2). 

Additional information: Version 1 published November 17, 2016 (contains pre-injunction data). Version 2 published September 28, 2017 (contains additional post-injunction data and other updates).

TRAINING:

• Bankston A, Fagen AP, McDowell GS, Gunsalus K, Hall S. 2019. Enhancing the connections between institutions and organizations to advance postdoctoral training. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27568v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27568v1

• Ruiz JP, Gurel P, Olds WH, Bankston A, McDowell GS. 2019. Inspiring and ethical mentorship in STEM: A meeting highlighting need for engagement, incentives, and accountability. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27474v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27474v1
• Bankston A, McDowell G. 2018. Changing the culture of science communication training for junior scientists. J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. 19(1): doi: 10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1413.

Publication highlight: Mentioned in the JMBE Themed Issue on Science Communication editorial and included in the “cultural change” section of this issue (March 30, 2018).

*Future of Research affiliation