First Paper

My first paper gets submitted today (I'm the second author, on a project that was originally mine, that PI gave to a post-doc he met at a conference, while I was still working on it, while I was preparing results for my thesis committee, which I was told not to talk about in said meeting etc, etc)

Am I bitter? A little, I had worked for 2 and 1/2 years on this project and I'm not sure if I had mentioned it before had to show her how to do the cell/tissue prep, she used all my reagents, sequences etc. I felt an opportunity to do some really good science was taken away from me ( something that would have added so much to my thesis) without even the courtesy of an explanation. Then I was given a project that is and has gone nowhere, 3 people have been working on different aspects of "our special gene" for 4-5 years, we have no publications and although I have done a lot all the information sits in a database (the people that maintain it called us to ask if they wanted us to close our account). Everyone sees that we can use the info to put out at least one paper but PI is either disillusioned or uninterested.

It's a habit of his that frustrates my committee, now they know how I feel having to put up with PI on a daily basis. He's very difficult and as such is not a good student mentor, he's better mentoring post-docs and residents. I think that's why no more students from my program have even rotated in this lab. One of my friends (from same program) had her PI and lab put on probation. There is a total of 4 students from my program in there (different years) and no one has had a committee meeting yet. As students we have deadlines set my our programs to adhere to but these PIs think they know otherwise, well I guess this is what happens when you don't follow the rules.