This spring Rick and Brian took Science Craft’s workshop on Scientific Writing to China, working together with students at the CAS-MPG (China Academy of Sciences – Max Planck Society) Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.

18 students took part in the workshop, which was held over 5 days in March. This workshop provided new and unique challenges for Science Craft. In addition to addressing a class consisting of only Chinese students, and being in a different country, we paid extra attention to a different learning style and group dynamic.

We were pleased that the students were fully engaged throughout the workshop. They were not only eager to learn new material, but consistently asked challenging questions. The students even requested an additional session on the subtleties of responding to reviewer comments, which we were able to accommodate.

Rick and Brian would like to thank Shuqin Li and Jun Yan for making this workshop possible and are grateful to all of the students for making the experience so enjoyable. We look forward to returning to Shanghai and seeing some of our students at the next Otto Warburg Summer School in Berlin later this year.