I wrote the proposal several months before I joined the new lab. I spent a
good of ~2-3 weeks working on the proposal. The first one to two weeks is
just hard thinking on what I want to propose and extensive reading. Try to
think big. Come up with important Q to ask and then think about what specific
approaches to use to answer the Q. An attractive title is very important.
For example, I see sb from Arkin lab has a title "Synthetic Biology with
temporal pathways". I think this is a very sexy
