Sentences with phrase «own staff scientists»

The email told employees, including about 2,000 staff scientists, that «starting immediately and until further notice,» they were not to release any documents or post anything to social media.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

«The industry's own data has revealed that all twelve food - grade carrageenan samples tested did in fact contain poligeenan in varying quantities up to 25 %,» Linley Dixon, PhD, Cornucopia's Senior Staff Scientist, said in a press release.

The Staff Scientist will be an integral part of Rainforest Alliance's Evaluation & Research program and of the AFi team.

The Staff Scientist will conduct scientific research, analysis, and preparation of publications in support of cutting - edge sustainability strategies, standards, and projects that the Rainforest Alliance carries out in pursuit of its mission.

Robert Buchsbaum is Mass Audubon's Regional Scientist in the Southeast, Cape, and Islands Region and has been a staff scientist here since 1987.

«Companies can inspire the next generations of scientists and engineers by spending time in today's classrooms,» said Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

LIGO staff scientist Joe Betzwieser (left) and physicist Shivaraj Kandhasamy discuss calibration procedures during the engineering run.

For example, Nick Cross, a staff scientist for the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy in the United Kingdom, develops software to process and archive imaging and other data from large astronomical surveys.

By the time he was done with his Ph.D., Saïb had a technician, several students, and two staff scientists working under his direction.

NIH should limit support for graduate students to 5 years (and another 5 years for postdocs), the report says, and NIH and institutions should use fewer trainees and rely more on permanent staff scientists.

They propose, for example, altering «the ratio of trainees to staff scientists in research groups.»

In 2000, she joined the team as a staff scientist.

In particular, «[t] he calls for greater transparency in career pathways, funding streams for junior scientists, support for staff scientist positions, and improving the research environment are all things that ring very true in the US too.»

«I think it's part of the problematic labor conditions found in academia today,» where in order to stay in science you must become a group leader, given that the staff scientist position has almost entirely disappeared.

Moreover, these staff scientists, as Solomon sees it, would hold high - caliber positions with all of the health care and retirement benefits offered to other staff at their institution.

«People have been creating these really high - pressure states for decades, but what they didn't know until MEC came online is exactly how these high pressures change materials — what drives the change and how the material deforms,» said SLAC staff scientist Bob Nagler, a co-author of the report.

And so Lamb, along with Caltech graduate student Jeff Prancevic and staff scientist Brian Fuller, set out to model the behavior of steep channels on an artificial watercourse — a flume — that they created for just this purpose.

Q: What was it like moving from a postdoc at SLAC to becoming a staff scientist, then director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of Accelerators at Jefferson Lab?

High on his list is the creation of a staff scientist position for researchers who love the bench but don't want to deal with the added responsibilities that come with assistant professorships.

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

Grouping T cell receptors for a given epitope revealed underlying common features that characterized the bulk of the repertoire,» said first author Pradyot Dash, D.V.M., Ph.D., a staff scientist in Thomas» laboratory.

She calculates that postdocs cost on average just $ 16.50 per hour, as compared with approximately $ 30 per hour for staff scientists and between $ 21 and $ 34 for graduate students.

Currently the academic career progression goes from graduate student, to postdoc, to staff scientist in some institutions, then on to assistant, associate, and full professor.

«In many cases, when you cut off glucose alone, the cancer cells find ways to compensate,» said first author Ramachandran Rashmi, PhD, a staff scientist in radiation oncology.

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

«Overall the turnaround for sample analyses fit a relevant clinical window for future comparative oncology trials to model human PMed advancements,» said Dr. William Hendricks, a TGen Staff Scientist and another author of the study.

Moreover, he had a good working relationship with his PI — which is crucial when considering staff scientist positions because you work together so closely — and enjoyed working at the institute.

Like Spurgeon, Finak became a staff scientist in his postdoc lab.

Greg Finak, a senior staff scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, describes his role as a «mini-faculty» member.

Data on staff scientists» productivity and effectiveness are, however, inadequate at present, and participants agreed that gathering this information is essential to any campaign of persuasion.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

But regardless of whether an institution has well - established resources and infrastructure to support staff scientists, the greater responsibilities of the role inevitably lead to career and professional development.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

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.

In many ways, the staff scientist position offers the opportunity to grow and learn while preserving the high points of research that can get lost in the grind of leading a lab.

One participant, for example, wondered aloud why any researcher would want a staff scientist position, which does not permit full research independence.

Especially helpful to that process, they noted, would be developing best practices to give staff scientists job security and recognition, in addition to acquiring better data about staff scientists» effectiveness and productivity within the lab.

Yao - Cheng Li, a staff scientist in Wahl's lab and first author of the new paper, explains that their method focuses on one of the two kinds of protein - protein interactions.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for nonacademic careers.

As of 2015, doctorate - granting universities employed roughly 25,200 doctoral - level staff scientists (see chart below for the top 15 employers).

One widespread and highly successful role of staff scientists in Europe, and also in some places in the United States, participants noted, is managing core facilities used by many labs.

In his division, staff scientists can apply for and hold grants and participate in faculty meetings.

The only stipulation was that I had to choose a staff scientist as my advisor.

At Spurgeon's institution, she says, staff scientists don't have access to the professional resources that faculty members, or even trainees, do — such as grant writing support.

Four or five staff scientists share a bench in a vast fourth - floor laboratory, where they design and test DNA constructs.

Having the R50 offers her peace of mind, she says, but such funding mechanisms specifically aimed at staff scientists are rare, and relying on a PI's grants being funded can be stressful.