Sentences with phrase «as the postdoc who»

Senior Special Investigator Brian Baudendistel interviewed Harran, as well as the postdoc who was said to have demonstrated the transfer to Sheri, the two postdocs who tried to help her and her boss at Norac Pharma, where she worked before UCLA.

Not exact matches

More recently, Godinho Ferreira, who now employs three Ph.D. students and four postdocs, has been working to establish Zebrafish as a new model system to try and understand the role of telomeres in aging and the role of telomere - elongation enzymes in cancer.

Even though they do not serve as professors, researchers who pursue other academic paths note that their intensive training — in grad school, postdoc appointments, and other experiences — prepares them uniquely for the challenges of their new positions.

All of my prior working experience was in the academic environment where I was surrounded by PhDs and Postdocs who were working crazy long hours and wearing it as a badge of honor.

One was Nathan VanderKraats, a former postdoc who told everyone how much he now enjoys his job as a data scientist and technical lead at... wait for it... Monsanto.

Pictured (left to right): Seated, Soroush Vosoughi, a postdoc at the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines; Sinan Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT Sloan; and Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, who also served as Twitter's Chief Media Scientist from 2013 to 2017.

«There's a lot of similarity,» says Sarah Conley, who, having spent 4 years as a postdoc at the University of Michigan before starting at MedImmune almost 2 years ago, knows both environments.

«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.

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.

After 4 years for a bachelor's degree, 6 for a Ph.D., and several more as a postdoc, who knows whether your chosen field will still be vibrant?

Climbing the Ladder A large department that spans the university's graduate and medical schools as well as several campuses in the Twin Cities area, BMBB has some 40 tenured and tenure - track faculty and about 60 postdocs — or, more precisely, about 60 scientists who other departments would lump together as postdocs.

I call up Rachael Roettenbacher, the postdoc at the University of Michigan who created this unique stellar portrait, to see if she is as stunned as I am.

As a postdoc at Merck, Gervais was pleased to discover that there are «a lot of very talented scientists in industry who were able to devote some time to basic research.»

She now has a permanent technician who was provided by the institute, as well as two postdoc fellows and two Ph.D. students, for whom she was able to secure funding from French agencies.

Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

«A lot of people who want to continue in science [as postdocs] get their first start overseas,» he says.

(The university uses the title «research instructor» for those who have exceeded the stipulated 5 - year stint as a postdoc.)

«Generally,... there is little recognition of young researchers» by their permanent peers, says Marie Boichu, who won a permanent position in the Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique in Lille after 6 years as a postdoc.

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.

For those who are unclear as to what the possibilities may be, SfN — which has 38,000 members, a third of whom are graduate students and postdocs — offers an array of professional development programs that highlight various career choices.

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.

«I don't know anyone who's gotten a job who spent their postdoc at the bench the whole time,» says Crystal Icenhour, who was recently hired as vice president and director of research at IDX Labs, a startup in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

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.

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

Scientists who make lesser but still significant contributions to projects, including postdocs and grad students, are also in line for greater recognition as federal funding agencies switch from paper to electronic grant applications in the next few years.

The big issue here — much bigger than independent funding — is your unsupportive adviser, who seems to view you (and the other postdocs in the lab) as instruments for his own success rather than as protégés whose career success he is responsible for.

On the other hand, several people expressed concordance with the individual who wrote, «It would be ideal to classify postdocs as faculty for benefits and privileges, because our needs are most like theirs.»

Switzerland - based Hoffmann - La Roche (Roche) established its first formal postdoc program 4 years ago with the explicit aim of using it as a «talent search,» says Basel - based Klaus Müller, who manages the program.

As a result, Tsien says, he is seeing a «fundamental shift,» with many foreign postdocs who once would try to stay in the United States now heading home.

Postdoc supervisors who participated in this year's survey ranked networking as the fourth most important factor (tied with training) contributing to a successful postdoc expePostdoc supervisors who participated in this year's survey ranked networking as the fourth most important factor (tied with training) contributing to a successful postdoc expepostdoc experience.

However, postdoc trainees who have been awarded an individual National Research Service Award (F32) or a nonfederal grant, or are supported by institutional training grants (T32), do not receive these benefits, as these awards do not include the necessary funds.

Many postdocs use internships, as Andringa did, as bridges to jobs outside research, but some continue on as researchers and are better rounded for it, says David Taylor, who, after doing a postdoc at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), completed an internship in the hospital's administration department.

But 20 will be promising young scientists not far from beyond their Ph.D. s who supervise as many as two other people — also postdocs, grad students or staff scientists — and hold one - time - only, nonrenewable, 5 - year appointments.

«I wanted to study immunology earlier than I could in Japan, so I became an exchange student in immunology at the University of Toronto in Canada, where I met my current boss, who was working then as a postdoc,» Nakagawa says.

As a result, most of the named institutions now classify postdocs as individuals in training, within 5 years of being awarded a Ph.D. degree, who are primarily engaged in research with minimal teaching or other responsibilities, and are in a temporary appointment that does not constitute an employment contract with the universitAs a result, most of the named institutions now classify postdocs as individuals in training, within 5 years of being awarded a Ph.D. degree, who are primarily engaged in research with minimal teaching or other responsibilities, and are in a temporary appointment that does not constitute an employment contract with the universitas individuals in training, within 5 years of being awarded a Ph.D. degree, who are primarily engaged in research with minimal teaching or other responsibilities, and are in a temporary appointment that does not constitute an employment contract with the university.

Her postdoc is still unable to find the right conditions for administering the drug, and she is unsure who to credit for the idea of using that particular drug on Abc1 as she drafts her paper.

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.

Indeed, compared with a previous unionization effort in 2006, which encountered opposition and ended with the withdrawal of the union's petition, «Everything has gone fairly smoothly,» says Matthew O'Connor, a bioengineering postdoc and chief union organizer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who also serves as president of Berkeley's postdoctoral scholars association.

Martin Hudson, who spent 8 years as a postdoc, is no longer eligible to join the union, but he says unions are needed to level the playing field between disciplines and between labs.

Glimcher, who remembers her struggle 2 decades ago to cope with child - care responsibilities as an NIH postdoc, recently lobbied successfully for a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to help scientists with early parenting.

But so far, the university has prevented the election from being scheduled by claiming that roughly 35 % of the researchers who are universally recognized as postdocs should be excluded from the bargaining unit because of how the university chooses to classify their job titles.

For example, although postdocs may «naturally come together» at a smaller institute where there are only 30 or 40 postdocs, what about the larger institutions that accommodate as many as a 1000 or more postdocs, who presumably don't naturally come together?

«Studies like this one are extremely important to better understand scientific career [s],» notes Geuna, who recently edited a book on the global mobility of research scientists, although the study's results «might not be generalized to the population as the sample includes only «stars»» and excludes postdocs.

They suggest that postdocs be defined as Ph.D. s who have no more than 5 years of postdoctoral experience.

Years of low pay as a graduate student and postdoc probably mean you are hopelessly behind many who started work right after college.

Within the lab I bounced ideas off a colleague and chatted to other postdocs who were expressing similar feelings and doubts about their future career and investigating such alternatives as patent work, investment banking, and technology transfer.

As another example, at nearly half the institutions with postdoc offices (13 of 29), the person heading the office is not the same person who is responsible for administrative oversight of postdocs.