Sentences with phrase «for postdoctoral studies»

Drawing from the concerns highlighted in this report, the Institutes formed seven subcommittees — stipends and benefits; adequacy of training; mentoring; duration of training and career path setting; career advice and job placement; satisfaction with choice of Gladstone for postdoctoral studies; and a catch - all of additional issues — to address specific issues.

Not exact matches

Ayman S. Ibrahim is postdoctoral fellow of Middle Eastern history at Haifa University and assistant professor of Islamic studies and senior fellow for the Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. Furr then completed her clinical psychology internship at the NYU Child Study Center - Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, where she stayed on for her Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute for ADHD and Disruptive Disorders, and specialized in treating young children with selective mutism and oppositional problems and providing organizational skills training for children with ADHD.

Together with her team of postdoctoral and PhD students Helen has been conducting studies of parent - infant sleep in the lab, the community and in local hospitals for the past 20 years.

(Airs 2/01/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Jamall Calloway, a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University.

Female geoscientists are less likely to be described as excelling beyond other students than their male counterparts are, according to a study of recommendation letters for highly selective postdoctoral fellowships published today in Nature Geoscience.

The study's authors looked at 1224 letters submitted from around the world for geoscience postdoctoral fellowships at the observatory.

This new development paves the way for a new field of dynamical study in the position dependence of atomic vibration in small particles, and is also likely to benefit the catalytical study of particles.Richard Aveyard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at York, said: «Our work highlights the valuable contribution that computational simulations can have in the field of electron microscopy: the more details we can put into our simulations, the more details we can extract from experiments.»

She studied T cells, including the role of a checkpoint inhibitor, for her Ph.D. and postdoctoral projects and at a startup company that was acquired by Novartis.

«The potential for the organisms to evolve in response to a rapidly changing environment is often downplayed, even though very few studies have examined the extent to which species might adapt,» said Michael Logan, who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

For the new study, Dokholyan's team, including lead author Cheng Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab, conducted complicated experiments to compare how trimers affect neurons to how larger fibrils affect neurons.

These can be for a study or research period of 1 to 10 months (see bursaries for short and long - term visits) or might allow you to carry out your Ph.D. or an entire postdoctoral project (see DAAD - Leibniz and Helmholtz - DAAD bursaries).

Graduate students may be greener than postdoctoral researchers or lab technicians, but they are still a hot commodity, says David Meyer, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles and the senior associate dean of graduate studies for the School of Medicine.

Comprehensive neuropsychological testing could provide cardiac arrest survivors better support for the challenges they may face upon discharge, says Dr. Vess Stamenova, first author on the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Women's College Hospital, who completed the research during her time as a fellow at the RRI.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

Kathryn Shows, a postdoc at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond who studies the genetic disorder Treacher Collins syndrome, credits her postdoctoral adviser and mentor for helping her return to science after leaving to start a family: «She encouraged me to come back, and she's been like a cheerleader for me, understanding that I have a life outside the lab.»

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

«Our findings open up exciting opportunities for further studying the roles of different types of neurons in health and disease,» said joint first - author Kwang Lee, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology.

The radiation - sensitive rats that received higher doses of radiation had a higher concentration of transporters for the neurotransmitter dopamine, which plays a role in vigilance and attention, says Catherine M. Davis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the study's first author.

«Because there is currently no reliable screening available for ovarian cancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

The study focuses on «stemness,» defined as the potential for self - renewal and differentiation from the cell of origin, and on «stemness indices» developed during postdoctoral research conducted by Tathiane Malta as part of a project supported by FAPESP and with Houtan Noushmehr, a professor in FMRP - USP's Genetics Department, as principal investigator.

For example, typing in the key word «sarcoma» will pull up a listing of principal investigators at the NIH studying sarcoma — with a brief description of their research — who may have available appropriate postdoctoral opportunities.

«The wing of Drosophila melanogaster has several morphogens, such as Dpp (BMP in humans) and Wingless (Wnt in humans), which are necessary for growth,» explains Lara Barrio, the first author of the study and postdoctoral fellow in the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona.

«The overwhelming majority of all firearms used for criminal purposes, some 80 percent, are acquired through private party transactions,» said Alvaro Castillo - Carniglia, lead author of the study and a VPRP postdoctoral research fellow.

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

«This isn't like toothpaste coming out of a tube,» said Juan Carlos del Alamo, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, who led a multidisciplinary team for this study, together with postdoctoral researcher Pablo Martinez - Legazpi and Dr. Javier Bermejo's group of cardiologists at Gregorio Marañon Hospital.

Last year, for a study published in Psychological Science, Tobias Egner, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, and postdoctoral researcher Yu - Chin Chiu decided to test how response inhibition affected memory.

«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.

These can be used inside the U.S. or outside — in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland — to support up to 2 years of postdoctoral study followed by an initial faculty appointment, for a total of 5 years of funding.

Fellows receive between $ 2,000 and $ 3,000 for predoctoral or postdoctoral study.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

And as well as administering postdoctoral fellowships for Japan, the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers a comprehensive list of foundations and governmental agencies that support foreign study, although not all are for Americans.

China is an obvious target for this action and it is hoped that this will move the level of contact to those who are at an early stage in their careers in deciding where to pursue their postdoctoral studies.

For example, one respondent identified as «Director of Postdoctoral Studies» remarked «I am temporarily responsible, but it is more in my capacity to survey the postdocs rather than serve a long - term commitment.»

Last month, Wayne Austin, a postdoctoral scientist who studies immunology and metabolism at the University of California, Los Angeles, had his final interview for an inside technical sales specialist position at bioscience company EMD Millipore.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Career Day.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, Seals and lead author Chris Martens, then a postdoctoral fellow at CU Boulder, included 24 lean and healthy men and women ages 55 to 79 from the Boulder area.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After completing her graduate studies in 2006, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Craig B. Thompson at the University of Pennsylvania for postdoctoral work focusing on cancer cell metabolism.

«Our study provides the earliest directly dated evidence for the presence of chickens in Africa and points to the significance of Red Sea and East African trade routes in the introduction of the chicken,» said Helina Woldekiros, lead author and a postdoctoral anthropology researcher in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

«Understanding the development of disparities in working memory has implications for education,» according to Daniel A. Hackman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh who led the study when he was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Four days after my humiliating defeat by a bowl of tortilla chips, I met with Alex Keene, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University with a Matisse nude tattooed on his right forearm and a penchant for studying flies.

«We didn't know for sure we could make these materials,» said Argonne postdoctoral researcher Junjie Zhang, the first author on the study.

Kevin Hatala of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, recently analyzed one set of prints at Laetoli using photogrammetry.

For doctoral students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, landing a job as a research - oriented college or university faculty member typically requires having spent time as a postdoctoral researcher.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

Our results show that if these trends continue, we can also expect to see substantially more cancers as a result» *, said study leader Dr Krishnan Bhaskaran, National Institute for Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.