Sentences with phrase «postdocs in his lab on»

Gerstein first puts students and postdocs in his lab on large collaborations, then gives them smaller follow - up projects for their own first - author papers.

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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 purview.

when 25 % of the work in the lab is done by undergrads who's main priority is partying / getting laid on the weekends, 25 % of it done by graduate students who hate their life, and 50 % done by postdocs who are barely scraping by, we can't really expect much: -LRB-.

He focused his attention on the United States and decided on a 3 - year postdoc in the lab of George Whitesides in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

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 Francisco.

He went on to gain wet lab skills during a 2 - year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.

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

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.

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 leukemiIn 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 leukemiin 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.

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.

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.

Improper contact 17 November 2014 A new postdoc insists on rubbing up against me in the lab.

«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.

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.

On 1 July, the University of Hawaii (UH), Manoa, presented the results of an exhaustive independent investigation into the 16 March lab explosion in which postdoc Thea Ekins - Coward lost her right arm.

When Matthew Conklin left his postdoc position at the University of California, San Diego, and moved back home to Madison, Wisconsin, for example, he didn't rely on job boards to find open positions; instead, he emailed PIs whose work matched his interests about the possibility of working in their labs.

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.

One postdoc blamed mistakes in his lab's papers on inadequate handling of medical statistics.

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.

«We know that postdocs and graduate students see the insecurity experienced in academic labs related to grants, and that they need to decide earlier on if an academic career is for them,» says ASCB Executive Director Joan Goldberg.

While the path of least resistance is typically a (nother) postdoc, more and more recent graduates are venturing out on their own and starting companies with ideas they've developed in the lab.

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.

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.»

So in 1994 she started a 3 - year postdoc in the lab of Carol Prives at Columbia University in New York City, working on the tumour suppressor p53.

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 fielOn 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 fielon 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.

At Stanford, postdoc Robert Busch started a peer - counseling group for fellow postdocs (see the «counseling» link on the SUPD website) a few years ago after hearing various kinds of «horror stories» about the way that people were being treated in their labs.

Fast forward 2 years: Gray is working as a postdoc in the lab of USC oncology researcher Michael Wong, on a nanoparticle drug delivery system.

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.

Postdocs do the bulk of the hands - on teaching that goes on in labs — by training graduate students, medical students, and technicians, for example.

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.

«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 knew we were on the right track when phosphoarginine showed a strong binding affinity to ClpCP,» says Débora Broch Trentini, a postdoc in the Clausen lab and the first author of the Nature paper.

Later, when he was a postdoc in Minnesota, Promislow remembers, Tatar insisted on biking to lab even in the dead of winter.

In York, inspired by the «beauty and symmetry» of the dendritic organic molecules he had worked on for his postdoc, Smith and his lab members worked to create similar molecules.

Lab safety is now a heightened concern in the contract negotiations currently under way between the University of California and the new union representing the postdocs on its 10 campuses, including UCLA, says UC Berkeley postdoc Matthew «Oki» O'Connor, a member of the union negotiation team.

When the first news about the pending executive order came out a few days ago, Athena Akrami, an Iranian neuroscience postdoc at Princeton University on an H - 1B visa, brainstormed with fellow Iranians she knew in U.S. labs.

«We want to decrease it to below the level for the diseases to appear,» says Alejandro Ocampo, a postdoc in Izpisua Belmonte's lab and co-author on the paper.

Remy Ware (right), a postdoc in his lab, took on teaching his classes and leading his lab and field station.

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.

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.

At the time of Majerus's diagnosis, Ware was a postdoc in his lab working on the ecology and genetics of the harlequin ladybird, a high - profile invasive species in Britain.

«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.

French postdoc Jonathan Grizou, who just over a year ago started applying his background in developmental robotics to chemistry at the University of Glasgow, is focused on succeeding in his new lab.

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.

«These «fastener» proteins do not consume energy, yet they somehow maintain their positions on the filaments, known as microtubules, in spite of all the activity going on,» says Scott Forth, a postdoc in the lab who led the research.

«Whole - cell recordings are an advanced method that can be performed in living mice that have been genetically modified,» says Jean - Sebastian Jouanneau, a postdoc in Poulet's lab and a lead author on the paper.

To conduct the study, Matthew Robinson, a postdoc in the lab of geneticist Peter Visscher at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues turned to large databases that include information on human physical and genetic traits.

At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.

(«I finished my Ph.D. last year in the laboratory of Dr. V, working on W, and currently I'm a postdoc in Dr. X's lab at the university of Y working on Z. Having done some career - related research, I'm thinking I might like to work in regulatory affairs.