Not surprisingly, several young scientists who head their own laboratories after that training recall their own experiences
as postdocs when they devise strategies for supervising fellows of their own.
Here, Cuervo happily remembers trying to avoid studying lysosomes, running a lab by
herself as a postdoc when her advisor went blind, and convincing her husband to write a grant on autophagy with her.
Not exact matches
Did you continue to do well
when you reentered the lab
as a
postdoc / fellow?
When Eric Cornell started
as a
postdoc with Carl Wieman at JILA, an institute run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor lab into a basement.
When deciding where to do your
postdoc, pick a PI who will support you
as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.
When UCHC contested the right of its
postdocs to organize, it did not question their status
as employees.
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 say
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 say
as a lecturer
when I would have all these restrictions on me,» she says.
Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs
as a graduate student, then in mice
as a
postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco
when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.
When it came time to find a
postdoc, I was fortunate to land a position
as an annotator at the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1996.
Danielle Salha says that the ability to publish her vaccine research was a priority for her
when she joined the multinational company Aventis Pasteur
as a
postdoc a year ago.
When you finish your Ph.D., you might want to continue doing research
as a
postdoc.
As a
postdoc in modern thought and literature at Stanford, it was very beneficial for me to be teamed up with people from the sciences because it highlighted how differently we situate ourselves in relation to our research
when we describe it.
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.
That can cause mix - ups, such
as the day at Berkeley
when «you have the fire drill in the building, and the
postdoc breaks his ankle.
But Barrett is quick to point out that this is the flip side of the supply - demand shift:
When she finished her Ph.D. two decades ago, «
postdoc fellowships were not
as common in psychology compared to the natural sciences.»
Mumma says he tries to protect the young people
as much
as possible, but «sometimes you just can't renew a student or
postdoc position
when the money simply isn't there.»
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.
According to a study of biomedical
postdocs in the U.S. published in November, most said in a survey that
when they began graduate school they were aiming for academic faculty careers, but that goal became less attractive
as they advanced through their studies.
Although evidence is only anecdotal, some
postdocs feel that foreign trainees are particularly vulnerable
as targets due to the social isolation that occurs
when someone is new to a country and just learning its language and culture.
The
postdoc is, after all, a research - intensive time
when you're supposed to be beefing up your publications, establishing your research program, and developing your professional network — in short, making yourself
as competitive
as possible for the job market.
These offices can aid in identifying the postdoctoral population, provide monetary and administrative support to a
postdoc association, and act
as a starting point
when postdocs have identified key areas of redress.
For a lot of these women, the first recognitions of a [professional] difference [from men] were usually
as postdocs,
when they were competing for jobs.
Of a dozen characteristics that the survey provided, 96 percent of respondents regarded good mentoring — including availability
when postdocs need advice, the provision of career guidance, and help in resolving problems —
as the most critical factor.
When he first joined the project
as a
postdoc, «His task was on a specific development and generally to assist me in the management,» says Markram.
The only negative aspects of Tullis's internship experience at Michigan were that she was paid
as a
postdoc and she had to explain the label «intern»
when dealing with members of the business world, where an intern is typically an undergrad doing a summer project.
When working on a dissertation or a project
as a
postdoc, «you really need to take the lead and you need to find the interesting, novel aspects of it.
When Miriam Wahl finishes her path to alternative certification through North Carolina State University's NC TEACH program later this year, she'll bring 27 years of research experience into the classroom, gained
as a
postdoc at the Wistar Institute and Thomas Jefferson University,
as an assistant professor at Duke University, and
as a microscopy specialist at Johns Hopkins University.
The sting of rejection was just
as sharp the fourth time around for Marcus Bischoff, a
postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge, U.K. «There's a lot of disappointment,» he says,
when your manuscript gets rejected by a journal.
As a
postdoc in the lab of Zefeng Wang, PhD, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Choudhury stumbled upon DAZAP1 while searching for proteins involved in alternative splicing —
when a single gene organizes its genetic code to create different proteins with various functions.
The accident happened
when my first husband and I were
postdocs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, during a family vacation,
as we were making our way to the Grand Canyon.
When Reiser joined the Carnegie Institute after her
postdoc in 1999 to help launch TAIR, «I wanted to create something that
as a graduate student I would have loved to have,» she says.
While it is entirely appropriate to answer questions about your current level of salary (humiliating
as it may be, if you are a
postdoc...), this old adage proves very true
when asked about your expected level of earnings.
But, anyway, back to being a
postdoc...
as a
postdoc I am able to take off early
when needed, stay at home with her
when she was sick, go on outings with her class, and take a few weeks a year off and go on vacation.
Paleoecologist Eric Grimm couldn't even imagine an electronic database for his field
when he joined the Illinois State Museum in 1987
as a
postdoc.
You can't find a job
as director of research
when coming out of a
postdoc, even if it is your third.
But,
when a system is broken,
as has been shown for
postdocs in multiple independent studies, how should one go about fixing the «it»?
When I arrived
as a
postdoc, the recombinant DNA era was in full swing.
As part of my medical training in hematology and oncology, I began a postdoc at MIT in the lab of Herman Eisen in the early eighties when molecular biology was just coming into its own: The T - cell receptor had just been discovered (work to which the Eisen lab contributed), and HIV was about to be identified as the cause of AID
As part of my medical training in hematology and oncology, I began a
postdoc at MIT in the lab of Herman Eisen in the early eighties
when molecular biology was just coming into its own: The T - cell receptor had just been discovered (work to which the Eisen lab contributed), and HIV was about to be identified
as the cause of AID
as the cause of AIDS.
When Lepró came to the Lab in 2016
as a
postdoc fellow from the University of Texas at Dallas with experience in nanotechnology, Stadermann decided to harness his ability working with nanometric and micrometric threads to try synthesizing an alternative fiber for use in NIF targets.