Hi all! I am in the end of my first year and I have a small problem. I have recently started thinking about my first publication. Actually, the ongoing lab work is completely related to this publication and is of course the first quite big part of my future thesis. However, my mentor has just announced that she would write the paper by herself and I should concentrate myself on one technique I am using in my research (microscopy and staining) and write a "small" paper about how I managed to use this method in our case. In reality, yes, for some time I really played around with some conditions for this staining (concentration of the antibodies and fluorescent markers, etc.). However, this was just the normal routine work for me, with which one can face all the time when you apply some protocols from papers to your system. And for sure this microscopy it just one tool, which I use in order to calculate the adhesion of cells, in my case. Honestly speaking, I would probably with pleasure write smth about this staining method, however I do not think that I have enough data and if it is relevant at all for my work.
I must say in general about my observations that my advisor is quite obstinate person. She wants all presentations and posters to be made only how she thinks they should look like. It happened once when she was not in the institute, I had to prepare the presentation and I made it together with my other mentor (not less experiences than she is). I of course sent it to her for feedback. When she was back, she sent me totally different presentation (looking like all HER other presentations) and told that I should use it. I think this is not normal. And now again this story with the publication. I am afraid that since she wants to go back to her home country after some time here to get a professor position, she now needs some amount of publications that is why she wants to write it by herself. And by that putting me in this strange situation.
I will be really very thankful for advice.

Can anyone give yulia any advice?

Perhaps you may volunteer to write the paper first such that you can gain some experience in writing.
The reason is it can save her some time as she can focus on mainly improving the paper.
However, you may let her know that she is still the first author, but you are the second author.
I hope she is not the sole author.

Afterall, it is not easy for a PhD student to publish a paper in the first attempt.
Anyway, I do not like this kind of supervision.
Perhaps, you may start drafting on the staining method or the effect of sample preparation...