Five years of experience performing research on a multi-lab federal research grant

• The first three years of my Ph.D. involved a collaborative project between three research groups at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), which required monthly update meetings and constant communication between researchers.

• The next two years of my Ph.D. involved a collaborative project between six research groups (5 at WUSTL and 1 at University of California Berkeley) and was comprised of a number of different, overlapping sub-groups of researchers that required frequent intra- and inter-group communication.