Sentences with phrase «experiences as a postdoc»

He was prepared to speak eloquently and at length about any of his experiences as a postdoc in the Walling Lab, for example.

Our experience as postdocs in the Netherlands is quite opposite to what we were used to in Japan.

Berkoben — another career scientist with experience as a postdoc and in running a lab — outlined the services offered by the HMS Office for Postdoctoral Fellows.

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.

I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member at an academic institution.»

However, he says, «That was far outweighed by the richness of my experience as a postdoc.»

The HFSP Asia - Pacific Coordinator, Elfi Meissl, talked with HFSP Career Development Awardee, Prof. Yukihide Tomari from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (The University of Tokyo) about his experience as a postdoc abroad and the challenges to return home.

Not exact matches

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.

Clearly I need to get money coming in as soon as the postdoc is up (November 2002) otherwise I can't pay my mortgage.How do I get a job which will allow me to get money coming in, and still be a plus point in terms of experience in case I still want to continue in science?

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.

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.

In the 2012 Science Careers postdoc survey, respondents rated opportunities and support for career advancement and funding as the two most important ingredients for a successful postdoctoral experience.

How does the experience of doing a postdoc at a company such as MedImmune compare to doing one at a university?

As a postdoc, she gained clinical trial experience while studying gastrointestinal tract function at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

As postdocs move from one short - term contract to another, they can find it increasingly difficult to find posts that offer funding to more experienced researchers.

A 2006 study2 identified a structured plan as one of the few factors that significantly improved the postdoc participants» training experience.

The message is clear — if you decide to gain additional scientific experience, say as a postdoc, you'd be well advised to seek training in an area different from your current field.

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.

I had zero computer experience; in fact, I could barely type, but a postdoc in the lab helped me do a BLAST search using my gene's protein sequence as a query.

This type of offering is a «win - win» for the postdoc, TTO, and university, says Susalka, because the intern / postdoc can then serve as an «ambassador» in his or her home department and share their experience to help peers in their own patenting and commercialization pursuits.

I appreciate your taking the time to share what you've learned from your own experiences in graduate school and as postdocs.

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 regular readers of the Postdoc Network know, many institutions have already begun efforts to revamp the postdoctoral experience.

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.

One year of funding could also be added at the end of the traditional 4 - year PhD, during which newly graduated researchers would gain extra lab experience while being covered financially as a bridge to their first postdoc position.

«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.

One can enter this profession as many of the CARE advisers did, from our personal experience as a scientist — which varies from a degree in psychology to a Ph.D. or a postdoc in the natural sciences.

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.

As Stephan pointed out, postdocs» low salaries are typically justified by saying that they are still in training, despite their skills and the years of experience they have already accumulated.

Not every postdoc has the luxury of enrolling in an institute - sponsored program like LMI, but as Icenhour's experience illustrates, motivated postdocs can create their own opportunities to learn skills beyond the bench if only they would step out of the lab.

As last year's National Academies report, The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited, notes, «[n] o single data source measures the entire population of postdocs, and some parts of the population are not systematically measured at all.»

Her postdoc centered around lava flow modeling, and even though she had «absolutely no experience with lava,» she got the job because she pitched herself as an expert in modeling, which could be applied to multiple systems.

Given the risks involved, international students and postdocs experiencing workplace conflicts may want to start with services that ensure confidentiality, such as the ombudsman office, says Margaret Hellwarth, an international scholar adviser at the University of California, Davis.

As one respondent put it, «Once we are employees, we can argue that employees at our own institution (and NIH) with fewer degrees and less experience are earning more than postdocs are.»

According to Spohrer, postdocs are more likely than doctoral students to match the company's ideal employee hiring profile: a so - called «T - shaped» professional, with both depth of training in one area and a breadth of experience, such as having worked in different countries or having both scientific and business skills.

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.

It hits many desirable highlights: postdoc experiences as a Fullbright scholar and a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), many dozens of published papers and patents, and a long list of impressive job titles from drug companies to law and venture capital firms to state economic development organizations.

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

Although committee members did not say there are plans to include evaluations as supportive documentation in federal fellowship grant submissions, the committee did suggest postdocs sit «virtual exit interviews» to help determine «the quality of a postdoc experience and to identify problems.»

All of these activities can be viewed as benefiting the postdoc in some way, such as gaining experience in teaching or grant writing, but the benefits to institutions and their faculty contributed by postdocs can not be disregarded.

So we read with great interest the Working Life story in which Michelle Gabriele Sandrian, an American, shared her experience working as a postdoc in Austria while starting a family.

Sixty - eight percent of respondents ranked the «advancement opportunities» attribute as «very important» in contributing to a successful postdoc experience.

Networking — through attending scientific meetings or meeting influential researchers — ranked third in contributing to a successful postdoc experience, with 63 % of those surveyed designating it as «very important.»

The consultant there also suggested that I gain business experience, but as a bench scientist, I lack opportunities to do so.Should I give up my job as a postdoc and go for an MBA, or look for any kind of job that could give me the experience I need?

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 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.

As part of the National Academies study on the postdoctoral experience, COSEPUP conducted a postdoc office survey that asked about available postdoc benefits.