Did you continue to do well when you reentered
the lab as a postdoc / fellow?
The bad thing about changing
labs as a postdoc is that you feel like a new student yourself.
If you let your tendency to procrastinate rule, you may find yourself having difficulty getting into a high - profile
lab as a postdoc.
James Ntambi says he «tried hard to persuade [Dobrzyn] to come and work in
my lab as a postdoc» at UW Madison.
I joined Kronenberg's
lab as a postdoc in Dec 2016 and worked on mucosal immunology.
Currently, she is working at Dr. Church
lab as a postdoc, further developing genome editing technology that she studied at her Ph. D.
Stephane joined the Lappalainen
Lab as a postdoc at the end of 2014.
Jonathan is joining the Ettema -
lab as a postdoc to study the enigmatic evolution of cell membranes at the prokaryotic - to - eukaryotic transition.
Cuervo joined Dice's
lab as a postdoc in 1995, and she stayed for six years.
Not exact matches
And, she told me, at least one of her
lab mates also interviewing for
postdocs was asked about the negligence
as well.
As they talked, Eroy - Reveles scribbled with a marker on the mirrored closet door, like she did on fume hoods in the chemistry lab where she worked as a postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Francisc
As they talked, Eroy - Reveles scribbled with a marker on the mirrored closet door, like she did on fume hoods in the chemistry
lab where she worked
as a postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Francisc
as a
postdoc at the University of California (UC), San Francisco.
Luckily, my own grant application to New York State Department of Health got funded and the senior
postdoc opted to join another
lab as a research faculty.
I could stay in the
lab for another two years
as a
postdoc, a
lab manager, and a technician, i.e
as a half god.
Four years later, with his Ph.D. and a dozen journal articles in hand, he found his way to Yale
as a
postdoc in the
lab of molecular biophysicist Thomas Steitz.
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.
So Kozlowski suggests that candidates should «get involved in things outside the
lab, such
as your institution's grad student or
postdoc associations, where you can gain leadership and organizational skills.»
He was prepared to speak eloquently and at length about any of his experiences
as a
postdoc in the Walling
Lab, for example.
When Eric Cornell started
as a
postdoc with Carl Wieman at JILA, an institute run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor
lab into a basement.
As Horsley tells her mentees looking for graduate and
postdoc labs, no
lab is perfect.
The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent
labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and
postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.
After several years
as a bioinformatics
postdoc at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, located at UCSF's Medical Center at Mission Bay, Pico's next logical step would have been to start his own
lab.
Young researchers often end up
as long - term
postdocs in someone else's
lab or choose to build their careers overseas.
Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs
as a graduate student, then in mice
as a
postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her
lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.
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.
Those listed
as inventors include a research associate currently in Shair's
lab, two of Shair's former graduate students, and a former
postdoc from the
lab.
In 2011, after spending 8 years
as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a
postdoc in the
lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.
Four years after leaving the
lab, Vukusic returned
as an unfunded
postdoc, supplementing his income with some part - time teaching and a small contribution from his supervisor.
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.
A Bridge to Independence 3 February 2006 Despite a tight budget, NIH is moving forward with a plan to help
as many
as 200
postdocs each year establish their own
labs.
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.
But
as Stacy Gelhaus, a
postdoc in Ian Blair's
lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, found out, there are many small ways that traditional
postdocs can gain some early autonomy and, in the long run, prepare themselves for an independent position.
International
postdocs were twice
as likely
as domestic
postdocs to be in
labs with eight or more trainees (graduate students and
postdocs).
During that year, and subsequent years spent
as a
postdoc in Morata's
lab (and later with Konrad Basler at the University of Zurich, Switzerland), Moreno was able to link the previously isolated phenomenon of cell competition to the well - established process of programmed cell death.
As career statistics are sure to show, only a minority of postdocs will ever have the chance to run a university lab — but skills such as budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursu
As career statistics are sure to show, only a minority of
postdocs will ever have the chance to run a university
lab — but skills such
as budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursu
as budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursue.
«
As a
postdoc in my
lab, she discovered the first direct connection between the preprotein translocases of the mitochondrial outer and inner membranes and showed the dynamic behavior of mitochondrial membrane translocases,» Pfanner writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
«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.
Major challenges include convincing
lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are
as good an investment of scarce grant dollars
as lower paid
postdocs or graduate students.
Odds are, however, that things will move slowly, so an early start to the job search will serve to minimize the number of weeks you spend cooling your heels
as a «
postdoc» in your graduate adviser's
lab.
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.
Chacinska returned to Pfanner's
lab in mid-2005
as a junior group leader and put together an independent team comprising one technician, four undergraduate students, one Ph.D. student, and two
postdocs.
She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research
labs, she watches with dismay
as some Ph.D. s and
postdocs struggle to find a secure job,
as she did 2 decades ago.
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.
Shapiro stayed on
as a part - time
postdoc in Tyack's
lab, studying the effect of sonar on whales and working to publish his earlier research.
Along with a
postdoc in Kaplan's
lab, Alice Liou, they decided to test whether the surgery itself caused the changes in the population of gut microbes — known
as the microbiota.
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.
As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees
lab chiefs joining
postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.
«The foreign students and
postdocs that have joined my
lab — including those from such places
as Iran, Palestine, Japan, Korea, and China — have not struggled in our environment,» says Summers.
Despite a tight budget, NIH is moving forward with a plan to help
as many
as 200
postdocs each year establish their own
labs.