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.
«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.
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.
«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.
That means not necessarily taking account of the exact number of hours that
postdocs put
in but, rather,
seeing good work done while realizing that fellows have to spend time out of the
lab.»
After taking a teaching class and working to develop lectures to bridge the
lab experiments and the general class (
see Part 1), we
postdocs enrolled
in the University of Alabama, Birmingham, pilot Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program began to find our rhythm.
But by the time he found himself doing a
postdoc at Harvard Medical School (HMS) another issue had become more pressing — why did he
see so few people like himself
in the
labs and lecture theatres?
To look at the teeth and jaws of the hominins at Dmanisi is to
see a mouthful of pain, says Ann Margvelashvili, a
postdoc in the
lab of paleoanthropologist Marcia Ponce de León at the University of Zurich
in Switzerland and the Georgian National Museum
in Tbilisi.
Despite initial fears that «the contract would potentially [change] the relationship between the
postdoc and PI,» Graveley
sees no difference
in his own
lab and hasn't «heard any major gripes» from colleagues.
HHMI does, however, expect to
see its investigators» former
postdocs in jobs that use their scientific training: «
in a government
lab, research institute, or the commercial sector, doing something
in biotech or the pharmaceutical industry.
The Complex Trait Genetics
lab (www.ctglab.nl) at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research
in Amsterdam (
see www.cncr.nl) is seeking applicants for a
Postdoc position
in Neuropsychiatric Genetics / Bioinformatics.