Life sciences publishing recommendations
So straight to the point I'm a postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology. I'm kinda in a transition period where I'm trying to get a early career fellowship or into faculty. So to that end I came up with a proposal and submitted it to a few opportunities but nothing sticking as of yet.
Now I did get +90% in the MSCA so I know it's solid. But as it's slow moving trying to get funding I decided to take the preliminary data and turn it into a paper. Now I did this during a 6 month period where I moved back from the U.S and looked for another job. I've just finished the draft and ready to submit. My original plan was to ask my previous PI's and my current PI to review it and then submit with me as the last author and as correspondence with them as co-authors.
My issue is though who could I put as the first author because it's usually reserved for the person who did the work which was me. But I can't put anyone else as a senior author either because it's not their idea or done under their supervision because again it's my sole project that I've developed for my own research programme/proposals.
Now I could submit it myself as sole author but that seems really strange in the stem field and honestly I would prefer someone to look over it anyway because I have a tendency to overlook things.