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[InquilineKea]

I know that a lot of work is done at places like MIT and Brown, although Matt Kaeberlein has (pretty convincingly) criticized much of the work done at those two places.

Of course, Matt Kaeberlein and Scott Kennedy do a lot of excellent work at UWashington, but they're pretty much the two big figures in it (who specialize in aging), along with a few more individuals like Alan Herr.

Then there's UCSF, which has Cynthia Kenyon's lab, and some other stuff as well. There's also some stuff done at Yale too.

In terms of hotspots though, it seems that San Francisco and Cambridge, MA are the two best places (due to the huge density of universities in those two places).

And then there's http://www.sens.org/...Report_2011.pdf

Edited by InquilineKea, 23 March 2012 - 02:00 AM.

[gamesguru]

I guess it depends on what you want to study in particular. Ideally you'll acquire some form of alliance with members of most of the institutions you mentioned, since the best minds and best equipment aren't clustered locally, but are scattered throughout the world.

[treonsverdery]

well, I imagine a person doing graduate study would be willing to spend a couple hours looking things up online. This approach complements that multihour effort.

I would go to pubmed.org then find a first author (generally experiment originator) than has written at least two papers that I think are meaningful as well as effective. There is also an online way of ranking citations )other papers referencing a journal article) as well as Journal force. You could see which first authors are publishing things you like, that have high citation quantity. Those places will likely have a productive highly regarded lab culture as well as high quality research output. There are certainly other ways to find or perceive effective scientists yet high quality new work, published, is of value.

Edited by treonsverdery, 29 March 2012 - 08:38 PM.