Sentences with phrase «postdocs in a research lab»

«One thing we've seen in design courses is that students greatly benefit from access to more experienced peers — say, postdocs in a research lab — who can guide them through their work,» Holland says.

Not exact matches

He saw that in North American labs many of the research ideas actually come from the students and postdocs and how this shapes interactions within the group, he says.

Should the old bait - and - switch or any intrinsic allure that graduate and postdoc research may hold no longer work, universities will still need to lure able young scientists to labor in their labs.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

Kita spends whole days in the lab, either working on her own research or helping students, postdocs, and other scientists develop their projects.

This juncture between basic research and the drug development process first began to interest Conley when she was still a postdoc at Michigan, where she had an «amazing experience» in a «world - renowned research lab.»

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.

Gervais was so impressed by the apoptosis research that he later approached Nicholson about doing a postdoc in his lab, which is based at the Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Rresearch that he later approached Nicholson about doing a postdoc in his lab, which is based at the Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic ResearchResearch.

«I would probably stay abroad longer, doing a postdoc in a lab doing research in an area that is different from my research field,» ponders Mattevi, while Mansuy suggests, «I would join a MD / PhD program to learn medicine before doing a postdoc.»

When he was a postdoc, developmental biologist Thomas Lecuit spent many evenings and weekends hard at work on his research, in the lab and at home.

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.

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 Researchresearch at national conferences, including that of the American Association for Cancer ResearchResearch (AACR).

Northwestern's TTO team gave him advice, guidance, access to resources, and a sweetheart deal — they arranged for him to do a postdoc in which he would spend half his time in the lab to continue his research and half his time at the university's incubator to bring his startup plans to fruition.

This skill has given her the confidence to tackle «complicated, far - out» experiments, like her doctoral research that uncovered the role that secretion plays in cytokinesis, which she did in White's lab, and her investigation of the midbody during her postdoc.

New programs offering postdocs sufficient funding and lab space for them to start an independent minigroup have multiplied, especially in Europe, where the launch of the Starting Grants by the European Research Council has prompted the creation of more junior - PI - like positions.

NIH backing for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.

After two postdocs — 2.5 years working in the lab and with students — and a lot of self - assessment, informational interviewing, and occupational research, I found myself moving again.

The transition from the postdoc's current unclear status to being a regular employee of the institution in which she or he works could benefit postdoctoral scientists, the labs they work in, and, I would argue, scientific research itself.

A Tunnel to Atlanta 4 May 2007 Ethnic networks are influential in channeling international graduate students and postdocs to American labs, research shows.

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Angel White, who finished her Ph.D. in Letelier's lab last year and is now a postdoc, landed a NASA earth science fellowship but decided not to renew because, she calculated, it was best to keep working on marine - science projects supported by NSF instead of NASA - funded research on remote - sensing tools.

«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.

IRACDA postdocs also invite their students to participate in research at their host institution's labs, including summer research programs.

This research «marriage» is not atypical in biosystems nanotechnology labs: Across academia, government, and industry, groups are almost always interdisciplinary, and new employees — whether they are postdocs or permanent staff — are hired based on how they can holistically contribute to the team, or for specific skills they possess which will complement the group's expertise.

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 program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

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.

Likewise, Thomas Kean, now a senior postdoc at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason Hospitals, Seattle, Washington, who has worked in British labs, says that the main difference is that there is more money in the United States, which makes research muchResearch Institute at Virginia Mason Hospitals, Seattle, Washington, who has worked in British labs, says that the main difference is that there is more money in the United States, which makes research muchresearch much easier.

Ethnic networks are influential in channeling international graduate students and postdocs to American labs, research shows

With India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), TWAS offers a number of fellowships for postdocs in CSIR labs.

First, although the immunology research in my lab has expanded considerably during the subsequent 8 years, there is no doubt that I would have emerged from a traditional postdoc with a stronger foundation in immunology.

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 postdocIn 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 postdocin 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.

Compounding the mismatch is the criticism that in many labs, this type of pre-professional training is not taking place at all, and that many postdocs are being used as a form of highly skilled but inexpensive labor to conduct the research that drives the economy.

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.»

The problem has only one solution, and it's the one every new PI must choose: Bring in graduate students, technicians, and postdocs, in a proportion that suits you and your research, and trust them to get the lab work done.

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.

Most postdocs work in high - powered labs in major research universities.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continueIn reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continuein the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continuein U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

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.

However, I kept on writing at night, to relax from the stresses of postdoc research in a cutting - edge lab.

«The PI or the lab has to have a backup strategy in case the project does not go through as planned,» adds Ramesh Chittajallu, postdoc in the Center for Neuroscience Research at the Children's National Medical Center.

«I help with adjustment to the new lab and research area, define strategy of research, comment on experimental plans, discuss major results and problems, compose and / or edit meeting presentations and research papers, career advise, and help in searching for the postdoc's next employment,» says another.

«I think in the early days,... I was willing to take almost any graduate student who wanted to come into my lab, which can be a mistake because if you take a graduate student or a postdoc or a research assistant who requires tremendous time and training and they don't have the commitment to really learn, it diverts you and your own research effort.»

Senior scientists working away in their labs, applying for new research grants, writing new papers, hiring new postdocs, remain as oblivious as ever, and as unlikely to note the problems faced by today's young scientists.

Reed sums up what a Ph.D. or postdoc might expect at the start of research in an industrial lab.

Students and postdocs may just be «pairs of hands» in the lab and never learn how to do research themselves.

Science magazine reports this week (subscription required) that Jong Hyuk Park, who was a postdoc in the lab of University of Pittsburgh researcher Gerald Schatten, has been barred for 3 years from any relationships with U.S. agencies.The Office of Research Integrity of the U.S. Public Health Service imposed the sanctions on Park for faking figures in a paper on monkey cloning.

«What was really important to me in choosing a postdoc was that I was really interested in the research going on in the lab and I knew I could do really good science there,» says Renald Schaub, a research associate at the School of Chemistry of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Doing a postdoc in a lab where she was not free to set up collaborations or attend scientific meetings to talk about her work eventually steered former postdoc Anna Webb away from research.

But if they do take time away from their research, Ph.D. candidates and postdocs need to pass on their projects to someone else in the lab.