Sentences with phrase «as a postdoc looking»

As a postdoc looking at your future career plans, you probably are wondering what skills employers are looking for.

Not exact matches

So I kept looking for things I felt would make an impact that would help people.I ended up working as a postdoc with Judah Folkman, a surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital.

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

As Horsley tells her mentees looking for graduate and postdoc labs, no lab is perfect.

Dunkel first began looking into the swimming patterns of bacteria as a postdoc with the Cambridge University group led by Goldstein.

I was obviously really disappointed to be rejected and, as my postdoc contract was coming to an end, started looking for other possible career options.

He advises prospective industry postdocs to look closely at the conditions of their contracts, as well as the publishing record of the company, before signing on, because it could have serious implications downstream.

But for the thousands of postdocs employed on NIH PI grants, prospects under the CR looked much less certain as NIH announced plans to fund grant renewals below their original amounts, «generally up to 80 % of the previously committed level,» according the NIH Web site — a move that would put intense pressure on principal investigators to economize.

She turned down the job — and kept looking for others that would pay more than she was getting as a postdoc but that would also be consistent with the rest of her work - related values.

These will be designed for freshly graduated PhDs, as when they are looking for a first postdoc «is the best time to get somebody to switch» to another field, says Hall.

An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that «young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.

What do aspiring scientists look for as they choose a university for graduate school or a postdoc?

Those who favor such changes, including forward - looking policy makers, administrators, and postdocs themselves, need a strong advocate — such as the NPA — to pressure these organizations to push these changes through.

As a postdoc I cloned the CCR6 chemokine receptor and now as a group leader I head a team looking at chemokine biology in atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies the development of myocardial infarction and strokeAs a postdoc I cloned the CCR6 chemokine receptor and now as a group leader I head a team looking at chemokine biology in atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies the development of myocardial infarction and strokeas a group leader I head a team looking at chemokine biology in atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies the development of myocardial infarction and strokes.

As they plan their move, students and postdocs «should familiarise themselves with the regulations in the discipline in that country» by looking at relevant websites, seeking information from mentors, or even getting in touch with the local consulate, Nath suggests.

Clues as to my next move came during my editorial career; as the well - known editorial assistant in the biology department, I had often been approached by PhD students and postdocs to look over their CVs and application letters to check the grammar and spelling.

I neglected to look out for myself [as a postdoc] and now I'm paying the price,» says Becker.

The consultant there also suggested that I gain business experience, but as a bench scientist, I lack opportunities to do so.Should I give up my job as a postdoc and go for an MBA, or look for any kind of job that could give me the experience I need?

But the trend towards employing postdocs for positions traditionally given to single degree holders was not as strong as expected considering the large number of postdocs looking for jobs, says Paul Leonard of the CIA.

I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member at an academic institution.»

Look at submission, revision, and resubmission «as an iterative process,» suggests Phil Corlett, a postdoc at the Brain Mapping Unit at Cambridge.

As you get the internship you are looking for and then go out and get the job you've been wanting, don't forget to help the other students and postdocs following in your footsteps.

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

But the notion of forward - looking career planning and intentional information gathering is foreign to many postdocs, who, as one audience member put it, will spend weeks designing an experiment and days tracking down a particular article, but no time at all mapping out a strategy for their own futures.

And 14 percent and 12 percent of former and current postdocs looked for nontenure - track positions as research scientists.

«We're looking for someone who has hit two home runs,... [who has done] very high quality work as a graduate student and postdoc.

Maybe the idea of trading Nobel ambitions for cleaning teeth doesn't sound very appealing — but then, maybe a decent - paying 9 - to - 5 job, with a median salary of $ 68,250 (for dental hygienists), sounds OK if you're earning half that as a postdoc and your prospects for future employment don't look good.

«So far, no one has looked across a variety of strains of bacteria, as we have done with Staphylococcus aureus, to find these extrachromosomal phages that have potential to play an important role in disease,» says Bryan Utter a postdoc in the lab and the first author of the research published June 25 in PLoS ONE.

I looked across the pond, and was hired as a postdoc in Arizona to work on formation of planets around lower mass stars.

LLNL materials scientist Joe McKeown looks on as postdoc researcher Thomas Voisin examines a sample of 3D printed stainless steel.

As a postdoc at Alnylam, he's been looking at how chemical modifications on a class of RNAs called small interfering RNAs can make them better drugs.