Sentences with phrase «employed as a postdoc»

From a postdoc's perspective, being fired after 3 years is hardly a better outcome than continuing to be employed as a postdoc.

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.

Although postdocs are ostensibly trainees, soaking up knowledge about how to run their own research programs, they are in practice often employed as relatively low - cost laboratory staff.

And though Hira did not mention it, tens of thousands of the scientists counted as employed are trapped in low - paying postdoc «training» jobs that economists have long recognized as effectively disguising unemployment.

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.

Susan Euling, now employed as a biologist with the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, found the Environmental Fellows Program to be the perfect way to combine her love of the environment with her laboratory training as a postdoc in developmental biology.

But the trend towards employing postdocs for positions traditionally given to single degree holders was not as strong as expected considering the large number of postdocs looking for jobs, says Paul Leonard of the CIA.

Every postdoc employed as of 28 August 2003 immediately receives a one - time bonus of $ 500.

Every year around tax time, my fellowship sponsor sent me a photocopy of the same 1994 letter from an independent consulting firm, telling me in no uncertain terms that as a postdoc I was not «self - employed» for tax purposes.

The study shows that, on average, male faculty at top institutes employ fewer female graduate students and postdocs than female faculty at those same institutes do, and elite males — as defined above — train even fewer.