Sentences with phrase «lab staff scientist»

«We're trying to identify environmental, economic, social and other impacts of a technology well before it actually exists in the world,» said Jeff Greenblatt, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who heads the ETA team.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Not exact matches

University scientists staff their labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting research careers,» she writes.

«Managers of forensic science labs should consider ways to minimize the overtime that scientists work, though this may be difficult if scientists must work more than 40 hours a week to clear backlogs or because of state mandates and a lack of trained staff to more evenly distribute hours,» Holt said.

Q: What was it like moving from a postdoc at SLAC to becoming a staff scientist, then director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of Accelerators at Jefferson Lab?

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

Like Spurgeon, Finak became a staff scientist in his postdoc lab.

Major challenges include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an investment of scarce grant dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.

In many ways, the staff scientist position offers the opportunity to grow and learn while preserving the high points of research that can get lost in the grind of leading a lab.

Especially helpful to that process, they noted, would be developing best practices to give staff scientists job security and recognition, in addition to acquiring better data about staff scientists» effectiveness and productivity within the lab.

Yao - Cheng Li, a staff scientist in Wahl's lab and first author of the new paper, explains that their method focuses on one of the two kinds of protein - protein interactions.

One widespread and highly successful role of staff scientists in Europe, and also in some places in the United States, participants noted, is managing core facilities used by many labs.

When a grant ends, for example, a PI can start paying a researcher from another one, and if a staff scientist has to change labs, institutions may have hiring policies that favor current employees.

The specific duties of staff scientists — who can work in core facilities as well as in labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both doing independent research and helping others get work done, though the specifics vary.

It also provides the scientists lower on the totem pole — grad students, postdocs, staff scientists, and others — the possibility of moving among labs and mentors; their careers need not be tied to a single sponsor.

As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.

Regularly scheduled staff meetings, a prominent feature of American lab life, provide opportunities for scientists at all levels to question, openly and publicly, their colleagues» — and even their superiors» — data and conclusions.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Tilghman, however, thinks the changes proposed in the article — they also proposed utilizing more staff scientists in academic labs — might even have the opposite effect.

As federal sequestration and other disruptions of government funding have forced academic labs to cut their staffs, some junior scientists are reportedly turning to adjunct teaching to pay their bills.

«Our findings present new potential targets for therapeutic regulation of cross-presentation,» said Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., first author of the study and staff scientist in the Gabrilovich Lab.

Such bases also offer scientists a chance to work daily at labs on the base, collecting and analyzing data using world class equipment and support staff among luxuries such as heat, air conditioning, high speed internet, and full - time cooks.

As NIST director, Gallagher oversees some 3000 scientists, engineers, and support staff at two main labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Boulder, Colorado.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

Gerbi, Stephan and others believe that the U.S. needs to establish «non-replicating» research organizations with many fewer temporary student and trainee lab workers and many more permanent career staff scientists.

For female scientists, Lundblad alleges, the result has been a vicious cycle in which their lab budgets are squeezed, resulting in a smaller lab staff, decreasing productivity, and thus even greater difficulty in getting funding and further lost productivity.

Some research leaders have suggested that labs should rely more on staff scientists and less on the cheap labor of graduate students and postdocs.

But how to control the shape is related to how you passivate a surface during the growth process, and exactly how ligands passivate the surface [and how electronic structures happen] has never been well understood,» adds Lin - Wang Wang, senior staff scientist at Berkeley Lab and leader of Berkeley Lab's Computational Material Science and Nano Science Group.

One big difference between a university and this national lab is that here they highly encourage collaboration with other postdocs, staff scientists, and with scientists at universities.

Those salaries should also be increased, the report argues, to be commensurate with the training levels of staff scientists and their value to the lab.

The «temporary - worker model» the United States uses to staff its labs «is completely out of equilibrium, [because] the country doesn't have the absorptive capacity» to provide career employment — rather than just temporary jobs — to all of the young scientists that the system produces, Gerbi continues.

«This material should be very useful for spintronics studies,» said Sung - Kwan Mo, a physicist and staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) who co-led the study, published in Nature Physics.

Many faculty members are struggling to staff their labs and are increasingly turning to international scientists — which might explain why less than 40 % of U.S. graduate students are non-U.S. citizens, but over 50 % of postdocs are from abroad (NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2001).

Five years ago, George was sure there had been a mistake when Taryn Grieder, a staff scientist in Derek van der Kooy's lab at the University of Toronto, who was collaborating with George on this project, detected a stress peptide in the VTA.

The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science user facility.

What's striking is this pair - dominance all the way to lead,» says Doug Higinbotham, a staff scientist at Jefferson Lab and a lead coauthor on the paper.

Located in the heart of the nation's capital, Q?rius features pieces taken out of scientific labs, collection vaults and creative and hangout spaces, creating an enormous hub for students to learn firsthand key concepts from real staff scientists and experts.

One idea is to reduce the number of young scientists being trained for careers that don't exist, and to instead hire staff scientists to carry out more of the day - to - day lab work that the apprentices now perform.

That is completely at odds with the characteristics of an efficient catalyst, which helps to split water to store the energy of light in chemical bonds,» said Sharp, who is also a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division.

Peter Nugent, a senior staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at Berkeley Lab and an adjunct professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley who also took part in the study, had helped to lead observations of the exotic star explosion at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

«The new polymer acts as a wall,» said Brett Helms, a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry and corresponding author of the study.

Staff scientist Gang Ren (standing) and is postdoc colleague Lei Zhang can checking images of individual proteins from their cryo - electron microscope at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.

Ana Vasileva works as a Senior Staff Scientist in the Lappalainen lab.

In 2018 we are debuting a new workshop module: «Hiring and retaining your science team: Interviewing, selecting and orienting» that will show you how to staff your lab with the best possible team of scientists and keep them productive.

Bob Deri of the Engineering Directorate, Frank Graziani of the Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate, Hye - Sook Park of the NIF and Photon Science Directorate and Rick Ryerson of the Physical and Life Science Directorate have earned the DMTS designation by reaching the highest technical staff level achievable by a scientist or engineer at the Lab.

This unique event will be the perfect event to showcase the beautiful glass, steel, concrete and wood JCVI sustainable lab which will be the new West Coast home to approximately 125 JCVI scientists and staff.

«A recent calculation of the spectrum based on compiled measurements of thousands of isotopes involved in the fission process showed a much better agreement with observations,» said Dan Dwyer, a staff scientist in the Berkeley Lab Physics Division, «and suggested the excess of antineutrinos comes from eight specific short - lived nuclei.»

She will be cataloging correspondence, field and lab notebooks, and research files of staff scientists of both departments; modernizing our archival databases, and digitizing photographs and documents for Carnegie's new digital asset management system.

Often, faculty and staff scientists with different kinds of expertise partner, providing a diversity of experience that is beneficial to both the individuals and to science.1 Combining the skills and interests of a PI with those of a highly qualified staff scientist can amplify a lab's success rate and increase overall progress.

Lab staff are qualified scientists, many with a decade or more of DNA testing experience