Sentences with phrase «as a postdoc on»

His life in tatters, one former UMass postdoc sues his college and his adviser as postdocs on three UMass campuses unionize

He was a Marie Curie fellow at the Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering in Cambridge, U.K., in the laboratory of Prof. Alan Fersht, the pioneer of protein engineering, from 1997 to 1999, where he worked as a postdoc on the mechanisms of the bacterial chaperonin GroEL.

Since 1995, Dr. Jobhunter has been working as a postdoc on a rheumatoid arthritis project at Bristol University.

Before she became responsible for YRP, Christine Bunthof (33) worked as a postdoc on a bioinformatics project at Plant Research International in Wageningen.

After graduating, he worked as a postdoc on novel methodology for the synthesis of insulin derivatives in the lab of Danny Chou at the University of Utah.

Not exact matches

Requiring universities and other research institutions to regularly collect, analyze, and disseminate data on career outcomes as a condition for receiving NIH funding, so that postdocs have a realistic idea about their prospects.

The whole report makes interesting reading, although it is likely to compound your frustration with life as a postdoc because it makes many recommendations to universities on supporting your career management that you may not have experienced!

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

On their website, the coalition institutions «commit» to gathering and publishing data on admissions and matriculation; median time to and percentage of degree completion; student and postdoc demographics; median time spent as postdocs; and, most importantly from the standpoint of those considering scientific training, «career outcomes for PhD and postdoctoral alumni, classified by job sector and career type.&raquOn their website, the coalition institutions «commit» to gathering and publishing data on admissions and matriculation; median time to and percentage of degree completion; student and postdoc demographics; median time spent as postdocs; and, most importantly from the standpoint of those considering scientific training, «career outcomes for PhD and postdoctoral alumni, classified by job sector and career type.&raquon admissions and matriculation; median time to and percentage of degree completion; student and postdoc demographics; median time spent as postdocs; and, most importantly from the standpoint of those considering scientific training, «career outcomes for PhD and postdoctoral alumni, classified by job sector and career type.»

As they talked, Eroy - Reveles scribbled with a marker on the mirrored closet door, like she did on fume hoods in the chemistry lab where she worked as a postdoc at the University of California (UC), San FranciscAs they talked, Eroy - Reveles scribbled with a marker on the mirrored closet door, like she did on fume hoods in the chemistry lab where she worked as a postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Franciscas a postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Francisco.

Yoder says that although he didn't hesitate in taking on his LGBTQA project, which he began as a postdoc, he has definitely considered potential negative consequences for his image as a scientist.

I noticed that after your postdoc appointment, you moved to industry, where you have held several roles of increasing responsibilities, and your work focuses on [same research topic as me].

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

«It's definitely important to reduce the postdoc period to get people moving on to their next career spot, especially if they're doing a postdoc as a default.

«I was advised by a mentor at the workshop to make sure that my maternity leave periods were very clearly noted on my CV so that the fewer papers that I may have published in my 5 years as a postdoc [compared with someone who has worked without a career break] will be explained,» she says.

Even if you're just starting out as a postdoc, putting your research ambitions on paper can be an excellent way to map out your career progression.

Some schemes require that the supervisor and postdoc, and sometimes the institution as well, design an individual career development plan, and some postdocs in Ireland have to report on their progress every 6 months.

As chair of the PSA, I served as the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocAs chair of the PSA, I served as the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocas the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocs.

Six months ago I was a postdoc working on G protein kinetics in a biochemistry department; now I'm working as an Enterprise Fellow at Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) where I teach university students «business enterprise» — entrepreneurship — while I try to start up my own business.

But Shair did not name Arefolov as an inventor on the relevant patents, meaning that Arefolov hasn't seen any of the financial benefits he had hoped for when he traded in his industry job for a much lower - paying postdoc position.

As a postdoc, «I was really worried about how I would cope as a lecturer when I would have all these restrictions on me,» she sayAs a postdoc, «I was really worried about how I would cope as a lecturer when I would have all these restrictions on me,» she sayas a lecturer when I would have all these restrictions on me,» she says.

My first duty as chair was to seek contact with and recognition by the Office of the President and two UC - wide committees responsible for postdoc policy and practices: the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), which handles academic affairs, and the Council of Graduate Deans (CoGD), which deals with administrative affairs.

«There is a risk that as a postdoc you are not even free to go for job interviews or give a seminar on what you've been working on because of proprietary information — it can become a nightmare,» he advises.

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.

As John Marburger stated in his keynote address at the 2002 Postdoc Network meeting, «bringing data on postdoc issues to the attention of institutional and government officials will inevitably lead to improvements.Postdoc Network meeting, «bringing data on postdoc issues to the attention of institutional and government officials will inevitably lead to improvements.postdoc issues to the attention of institutional and government officials will inevitably lead to improvements.»

The plight of early - career scientists has come in for exceptional scrutiny in recent weeks as three major scientific institutions each released a report on the postdoc system.

Although LBNL has always had excellent postdoctoral fellow policies in most areas — postdocs are all treated as term employees with defined salary scales, benefits, and so forth — I knew from my previous experience as the chair of the Berkeley department of chemistry that the situation on the Berkeley campus was much more complicated.

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

As a postdoc at the University of Arizona, Tucson, I continued in the field of plant biochemistry with rewarding work on plant molecular chaperones.

On the contrary, large companies in Canada do not view their postdoctoral programs as recruitment tools and in many cases actively discourage the notion in their potential postdoc recruits.

The company, which employs more than 100 postdocs, places a premium on basic (as well as translational) research, encouraging its scientists to publish in top journals.

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 calculates that postdocs cost on average just $ 16.50 per hour, as compared with approximately $ 30 per hour for staff scientists and between $ 21 and $ 34 for graduate students.

For most postdocs, «a lot of the skills and techniques and expertise that you need for that project to succeed are already established [in the lab], whereas if you start off as an independent postdoc, it may be that you want to do something that you don't have very much experience with, so you then need to either seek outside help or get these things set up on your own,» Stolt - Bergner says.

For postdocs, being labeled as a trainee versus employee has a tangible impact on their bottom line.

Unionized Postdocs Unaffected by Decision Denying Union Right to Brown University Grad Assistants 6 August 2004 A recent NLRB ruling against postdoc unions has no effect on the nation's first — and, as yet, only — postdoc union.

«We had high - school and college - age students with grad students and postdocs in the lab, and they were each sharing experiences, educating each other as to how to go from that specific part of their lives and move on to the challenges of the next phase, both scientifically and personally,» she says.

As the National Academies» Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy wrote recently, «Postdocs are central to this nation's global leadership in science and engineering.

Some of the excellent new teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and opportunities for continued participation in research.

So as she neared the end of her Ph.D. in 2005, she focused her attention on opportunities and postdoc positions that could lead her to a clinical or drug - development position down the line.

Three Reports Tackle the Postdoc Mess 6 May 2005 The plight of early - career scientists has come in for exceptional scrutiny in recent weeks as three major scientific institutions each released a report on the postdoc Postdoc Mess 6 May 2005 The plight of early - career scientists has come in for exceptional scrutiny in recent weeks as three major scientific institutions each released a report on the postdoc postdoc system.

Extensive, successful, grant writing, on the other hand, was only one of the «very positive» aspects of Sujatha Srinivasan's 2 years as an employee postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle.

His comments really rang a bell for me, as so many other graduate students and postdocs have brought these same items up for discussion on the AAAS Career Discussion Forum.

«As a postdoc, I was very much wedded to a specific research project,» she says, because she was focused on developing a research narrative to present in faculty job interviews.

Will they suggest changes in incentives, such as requiring grant recipients and institutions to track and report on the progress of their postdoc «alumni» and to consider them part of the university's and principal investigator's scholarly production?

Indeed, most institutions will not even allow postdocs to serve as co-PIs on research grant applications — although some do — let alone as full PIs.

Surviving as a Postdoc 06 March 2013 Charmaine Tam Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research Postdoc 06 March 2013 Charmaine Tam Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research career.

Demiralp was on the verge of doing a postdoc with Barrett after she had served as one of his Ph.D. advisers.

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.

A recent NLRB ruling against postdoc unions has no effect on the nation's first — and, as yet, only — postdoc union