Sentences with phrase «first postdoc position»

My first postdoc position started almost three long years ago.

Handing her my immaculately presented résumé, I told her a rehearsed but condensed version of my recent life history, starting with my Ph.D. and first postdoc position.

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.

And if you're heading for your first postdoc position, the more irons you can get in your research fire the better.

Not exact matches

Aside from learning diverse technical skills, much of how I got to my current position at Monsanto I owe to the first - rate mentoring of my postdoc advisor.

Moreno's first job in the lab — helping a postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved in organ development and positioning — earned him a second - author paper in Science just a couple of years into his Ph.D..

From graduate school and two postdocs to my first nontenure - track faculty position, I haven't lost my desire to push forward, bit by bit, the frontiers of my field — to watch with increasing precision the dance of proteins, DNA replication and repair, and chromosome segregation.

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.

Her position was similar to that of a postdoc facing their first tenure - track appointment.

As postdocs, we see our first permanent position as the last hurdle.

You can of course get a postdoc position without obtaining your own grant first by simply applying to job adverts in journals, but obviously you don't have as much choice as to where you end up.

After completing my undergraduate degree, my first research position was in a lab that was going through the process of creating a spin - off company, based on a technology developed by my supervisor and one of his postdocs.

At my institution, a recent survey of postdocs revealed that more than one - third of individuals who start their postdoc with the intention of obtaining a faculty position change their minds after the first several years.

With seven first - author publications, I thought I would be in a good position to become a professor back in Toronto after a quick postdoc in the United States.

First is the council's Grant for Postdoctoral Positions in Sweden, Natural and Engineering Sciences, which funds a postdoc salary for up to 2 years.

Increasingly, the first employment option for new Ph.D. graduates reflects the situation found in many other countries, in that those who don't succeed in getting a permanent position straightaway usually go for a postdoc.

It was, in fact, a drive several years ago to solidify the position of campus administrators by bringing them into the union that first sparked interest in organizing the postdocs.

As I wrote in my first Next Wave article, I was deciding between continuing along the academic path — doing a postdoc and applying for faculty positions — and moving over into industry and accepting a research or management position there.

«In the biomedical sciences,» wrote the first postdoc quoted above, «each available faculty position receives applications from hundreds or thousands of applicants, putting immense pressure on postdocs to publish frequently and in high impact journals to be competitive enough to attain those positions.»

When I first applied for the position, I was a genetics postdoc living in DC.

, do a postdoc in 2 years, win a grant in the first years of an entry - level position with PI status, and then demonstrate productive results within the term of a 2 - to - 5 year grant.