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.
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.
Intrigued, after finishing her Ph.D. in 1983, she decided to study telomeres
as a postdoc with Harvard Medical School chromosome biologist Jack Szostak.
Dunkel first began looking into the swimming patterns of bacteria
as a postdoc with the Cambridge University group led by Goldstein.
von Fricken spent a year living in Ulaanbataar
as a postdoc with Duke University, under Dr. Greg Gray, working alongside veterinarians from the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and the National Center for Zoonotic Diseases.
Stephen L. Macknik trained
as a postdoc with Zachary Mainen at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and David Hubel at Harvard Medical School.
She trained
as a postdoc with Vamsi Mootha at MGH and Harvard Medical School.
Not exact matches
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!
by Ireena Dutta, 27 July 2001 Doubtful that the many positive and valuable experiences she had
as a Ph.D. candidate would be sufficient to compensate for the lack of job security and the demanding hours of research, Ireena Dutta decided against continuing
with a
postdoc.
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 Francisc
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 Francisc
as a
postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Francisco.
After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints
as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a
postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist
with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.
Four years later,
with his Ph.D. and a dozen journal articles in hand, he found his way to Yale
as a
postdoc in the lab of molecular biophysicist Thomas Steitz.
«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.
One of them was
with her presently
as a
postdoc; she'd trained the other a few years earlier.
New Ideas In his own part - time role
as postdoc director, Lipscomb manages departmental awards and activities and «serves
as liaison for
postdocs with faculty,» Autry says.
One answer lies in providing
postdocs and Ph.D. students
with empowering experiences
as an integral part of their intellectual development: to think boldly and imaginatively, to discover the enormous value of their discipline and to recognize the many audiences and outlets for their expertise.
As with many great ideas, this one began small,
with a group of postdoctoral fellows brainstorming over water and cheese at the second annual Next Wave
Postdoc Network (PDN) meeting less than 1 year ago.
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.
Many NIH study sections are, no doubt, willing to take more risks
with the smaller R03s than they are
with big - money R01s, but given your Canadian employment and your status
as a
postdoc, the odds are stacked against you.
Essentially,
postdocs should think of themselves
as intellectual entrepreneurs: scholars
with a vision, a plan to carry out that vision, and the resources to bring it to fruition.
After gathering her students and
postdocs to meet
with their guest and making introductions, Lundblad broke the ice by commenting, «Tom,
as you can tell, we spend most of our free time... shoe shopping together.»
Postdoc at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen Pia Snitkjaer has carried out a series of experiments
with alcohol in liquid dishes to figure out how to control the alcohol content during cooking for the benefit of large kitchens, the food industry, the gastronomy and restaurant sector
as well
as in the kitchen at home.
In response to this challenge, Löffler and her team (
as well
as other institutions and their TTOs) have come up
with creative funding mechanisms, including fellowships supported by private companies and philanthropies, which provide
postdocs the freedom to chase entrepreneurial ambitions.
With a population
as diffuse
as postdoctoral scholars, does the institution have adequate assurance that patent agreements are being signed, that conflict of interest and other mandated reporting is being carried out, that risk management and liability needs are covered, and that
postdocs are not falling through administrative cracks?
Laura was extremely effective in interacting
with individual
postdocs as a «peer.»
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.
As a
postdoc at the University of Arizona, Tucson, I continued in the field of plant biochemistry
with rewarding work on plant molecular chaperones.
You've heard good, bad, and ugly stories from
postdocs as they navigate the murky area between the roles of student and junior faculty, between trainee and professional, and between apprentice and employee, often
with the burdens of each role and the benefits of none.
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.
Four years after leaving the lab, Vukusic returned
as an unfunded
postdoc, supplementing his income
with some part - time teaching and a small contribution from his supervisor.
Meet any potential supervisor face to face but don't forget to have a beer
with their students and
postdocs as well.
The daily experience of
postdocs, whether at the University of Chicago or any other institution, is made even more complex by the reality that a
postdoc's professional identity can shift from moment to moment
as the
postdoc interacts
with the lab, the institution, and the scientific profession.
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.
A Bridge to Independence 3 February 2006 Despite a tight budget, NIH is moving forward
with a plan to help
as many
as 200
postdocs each year establish their own labs.
«I earn $ 32,000 now
as a
postdoc» — the truth — «but I don't see that a
postdoc salary has much to do
with a starting salary in industry; wouldn't you agree?»
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.
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.
But such people contact could be several years down the line, and
as a
postdoc you might find that you only discuss your work routinely
with one person — your supervisor.
While a fraction of Ph.D. candidates and
postdocs have been paid through working contracts
with their institute, the others have instead received tax - free scholarships known
as stipends.
«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.
This resonated
with the experience of students in the audience, who could relate to feelings of isolation in their own situation
as graduate students and
postdocs.
International
postdocs were twice
as likely
as domestic
postdocs to be in labs
with eight or more trainees (graduate students and
postdocs).
During that year, and subsequent years spent
as a
postdoc in Morata's lab (and later
with Konrad Basler at the University of Zurich, Switzerland), Moreno was able to link the previously isolated phenomenon of cell competition to the well - established process of programmed cell death.
Our team included several «insiders,»
postdocs who had been grad students at the University of Chicago and,
as a result, could provide the benefit of their experiences
with administrative practices and institutional culture.
That can be harder to come by,
as senior scientists tend to lose contact
with their students and
postdocs who have left the field.
Her concern «was compounded by my leaving the country,
as once your examiners report comes in you only have a limited time... to make the changes, otherwise your thesis has to be re-examined,» continues Hansen, who received a passing notification
with minor revisions the day after she arrived in the United Kingdom to begin her
postdoc.
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.
Skipwith contacted her
with a request for a
postdoc appointment and a collaboration was born,
as Clark immediately realized the value they both could provide each other.
Even if you get a grant
as a
postdoc, taking it
with you requires the cooperation — not to say complicity — of your host institution.