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.
Not exact matches
In these lean, early days,
Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader pur
Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT
postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the
other two has a far broader pur
other two has a far broader purview.
Turnover
in Student A's
lab lends itself to seasoned students,
postdocs and
other lab personnel being around long enough to show junior students the ropes.
Kita spends whole days
in the
lab, either working on her own research or helping students,
postdocs, and
other scientists develop their projects.
Establishing a
lab in Turkey can take a bit longer than
in other places because new faculty members there usually don't receive start - up funds, getting supplies and attracting good
postdocs can be difficult, and teaching loads tend to be heavy.
Like
other postdocs at UNC, I spent long hours
in the
lab and presented my research at national conferences, including that of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
«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.
An American
in Paris offers guidance to
other postdocs who are offered a chance to relocate with their PI and the
lab.
«My idea
in doing my
postdoc was to get a certain range of skills so that I could eventually settle somewhere and set up a
lab and train
others to use these skills
in a different setting.»
To find out how an assortment of plants will react, last summer
postdoc Kelly Wolfe - Bellin and
others in the
lab of Harvard ecologist Fakhri Bazzaz converted a greenhouse into a special tunnel.
In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdoc
In each case, an expert group calls for, among
other things, supporting more
postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists
in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdoc
in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for
postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and
labs» graduate students and
postdocs.
Ari Patrinos, associate director of science for biological and environmental research at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Daniel Drell, also with the DOE's office of biological and environmental research, suggest that Jones employ some creative solutions, including «assistance with additional funding sources, perhaps an additional student or
postdoc to work
in Montgomery's
lab (but funded by Jones), an active scientific collaboration, or access to
other technologies or resources that Montgomery, on his own, could not command.»
In my case, the senior fellowship means my salary along with that of two
postdocs and the equipment and
other costs of running a
lab for 5 years.
Around 2000, then -
postdoc Wagers and
other researchers
in Irving Weissman's and Thomas Rando's
labs at Stanford revived the method, known as parabiosis, to study the fate of blood stem cells and muscle cells.
In another study of mice injected with GDF11, postdoc Lida Katsimpardi and others in the lab of Harvard neuroscientist Lee Rubin found that GDF11 also encourages growth of new blood vessels and olfactory neurons in the mouse brai
In another study of mice injected with GDF11,
postdoc Lida Katsimpardi and
others in the lab of Harvard neuroscientist Lee Rubin found that GDF11 also encourages growth of new blood vessels and olfactory neurons in the mouse brai
in the
lab of Harvard neuroscientist Lee Rubin found that GDF11 also encourages growth of new blood vessels and olfactory neurons
in the mouse brai
in the mouse brain.
Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our
labs primarily with graduate students and
postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while
other countries have permanent ways of staffing their
labs,» often with PhD staff scientists
in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.
In the clincher, Nausica Arnoult, a postdoc in the Karlseder lab and one of the study's co-authors, took advantage of a fluorescent tag that others had embedded into one chromosome's telomeric end and then used a whole chromosome imaging method called FISH to track where the tag went over tim
In the clincher, Nausica Arnoult, a
postdoc in the Karlseder lab and one of the study's co-authors, took advantage of a fluorescent tag that others had embedded into one chromosome's telomeric end and then used a whole chromosome imaging method called FISH to track where the tag went over tim
in the Karlseder
lab and one of the study's co-authors, took advantage of a fluorescent tag that
others had embedded into one chromosome's telomeric end and then used a whole chromosome imaging method called FISH to track where the tag went over time.
After some thought, he made an effort, during the final year of his
postdoc, to get involved
in projects where he could supervise
other people
in the
lab.
Such ideas inspired Tuck Ngun, a
postdoc in Vilain's
lab, to study the methylation patterns at 140,000 regions
in the DNA of 37 pairs of male identical twins who were discordant — meaning that one was gay and the
other straight — and 10 pairs who were both gay.
Niyogi joined Fink's
lab and found himself
in an unusual situation: As a graduate student
in a group of about 20, he was surrounded by
postdocs, because he was focused on Arabidopsis and all the
other graduate students worked with yeast.
«To learn about the working environment of the
lab that I'd be joining, I had numerous conversations with my prospective mentor, with
other researchers who'd had previous interactions with him, and with current and former graduate students and
postdocs who were working or had worked
in his
lab,» AAAS science policy fellow Graber remembers.
Those
postdocs who came
in from
other institutions were even more «
lab - centric.»
In graduate school I was in a large lab, so there were lots of postdocs and others who could give me advice,» he say
In graduate school I was
in a large lab, so there were lots of postdocs and others who could give me advice,» he say
in a large
lab, so there were lots of
postdocs and
others who could give me advice,» he says.
The experience, which included an introduction to the core principles of citizen science and working with
other participants to design and pitch a proposal for a citizen science - based project, was «very inspiring,» says Heil, who defended her thesis
in December and is currently a
postdoc in her Ph.D.
lab.