Sentences with phrase «postdoctoral work on»

For Mansfield, his postdoctoral work on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in doped metals gradually transitioned into scanning his first live human subject with the newly invented MRI technique.

Prior to starting the fellowship, she completed postdoctoral work on advanced combustion techniques using pure oxygen.

In 1996, after about 10 years of postdoctoral work on both sides of the Atlantic, I took a deep breath and went independent as a freelance bioinformatics consultant and science writer.

Wagers was inspired to research bone marrow stem cells and did her postdoctoral work on adult stem cells.

Not exact matches

I think it helps that my professional life fits so much better with my role as a mom than it did when I was working on my postdoctoral fellowship while pregnant with Laurel.

Sydney Schreppler, a postdoctoral fellow in physics at University of California, Berkeley, seeks to hire a female graduate student mentee to contribute to her work on circuits that mimic the behavior of the world's smallest particles, known as superconducting qubits.

Unfortunately, there's no clear consensus on how much postdoctoral work (if any) you'll need to be considered a good candidate for an industry position.

This will depend largely on your geographical location and the applicability of your postdoctoral work to the industrial jobs you apply for.

He conducted postdoctoral research in ultrafast spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany on the Humboldt fellowship, and then worked as a National Research Council fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan working on [research topic].

Collaborating with groups like the National Postdoctoral Association, which works on establishing living wages and paid maternity and paternity leave for postdocs, among other issues, could help make child rearing both financially possible and more gender equitable.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

There are many opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral work in mathematical biology, which are occasionally listed with faculty jobs on SMB's job page.

This is the kind of speed performance a Braille user would expect, says Peichun Yang, a postdoctoral research associate in N.C. State's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also working on the project.

«I think we need to do more work to see if there are any limitations to the number of genes CRISPR - on can activate at a time,» says Haoyi Wang, a co-author and postdoctoral researcher in the Jaenisch lab.

In 1998 CoGD had issued recommendations to improve postdoctoral education and has since been working on proposals for implementation.

AAU's approval of this report meant that our work on postdoctoral education at Berkeley, which was going on in parallel with the AAU study, also had the highly visible, official blessing from our chancellor.

With a grant from the National Institute on Aging, she launched another search for yeast strains with defective telomere maintenance, but on a far larger scale than in her postdoctoral work.

Upon graduating in 1993 with a Ph.D. in entomology with an emphasis on integrated crop protection, Chiasson won a postdoctoral industrial fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Rearch Council of Canada to work at a Quebec - based bioagricultural company that specializes in pesticide research and development.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

I gave about 40 thousand dollars to pay for a postdoctoral researcher to work on this problem in Larsson's lab.

Susanna Jenkins, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, works on forecasting the impact of volcanic crises.

Xiao is a former doctoral student of Huang's at Northwestern who then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher in Rogers» lab at Illinois.

The biomarker panel, enabled by discovery work of first author Jungsun Kim, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Zaret's lab, builds on a first - of - its - kind human - cell model of pancreatic cancer progression the lab described in 2013.

Maoz shared the first - authorship with Henry and Anna Herland, Ph.D., who worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team, and is now Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Even so, the notice doesn't embrace any of the OIG report's suggestions on how NSF could improve its oversight of university RCR plans.One such change would be to broaden the scope of the training beyond the current requirement that applies only to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers working on NSF - funded projects.

The University of Michigan will then recruit postdoctoral fellows from populations that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, who will have the opportunity to work on these projects at both the university and the Centocor campus with a mentor at each location.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.

A decade later, as a postdoctoral researcher, he was working on a multi-university collaboration called the Tree of Life, to piece together the phylogeny — that branching tree of evolutionary history — for all flowering plants.

And, as the academic «precariat» grows, said Hackmann, referring to postdoctoral researchers who work on successive contracts without the opportunity to become salaried professors, «so do regimes of competition rather than collaboration, and the pressure to play by business as usual rules persists.»

From there it was on to UC Davis for my doctorate, followed by a year of postdoctoral work at Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research.

For instance, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyons, France, which is part of the World Health Organization, has postdoctoral fellowships to work at the IARC.

After completing her graduate studies in 2006, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Craig B. Thompson at the University of Pennsylvania for postdoctoral work focusing on cancer cell metabolism.

«Approximately 36,000 of these disposal wells are currently in operation across the U.S., and little work has been done to evaluate their potential impacts on nearby surface water,» said Christopher Kassotis, a former graduate student in Nagel's laboratory and a current postdoctoral fellow at Duke University.

Co-authors on the paper include Qi Lu, a postdoctoral fellow, and Jonathan Rosen, a graduate student, working with Jiao.

With the details of providing the same health coverage to all categories of postdocs already worked out, «Garnett - Powers & Associates will be working with the National Postdoctoral Association to implement this sort of program on a national basis,» he said.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

«I was extremely happy to use the convection modeling techniques I developed during my recent PhD work at Washington University, and to apply them to this amazing place on Pluto,» said Teresa Wong, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University and a co-author on the study.

They generally aren?t talking about their research, though some of them have babbled on about their thesis or postdoctoral work when they should have been teaching something else.

Johnson earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Colorado in 1976 and went on to do postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco.

The paper's other authors are Nicholas Balascio (lead author), an assistant professor at the College of William & Mary who worked on the study as a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory; and Raymond Bradley, a professor at the University of Massachusetts.

In this study, which was also led by postdoctoral research associate Ogun Adebali, PhD, the researchers focused largely on Mfd, a protein known from prior work by Sancar and Selby to have a special — and mechanistically unusual — role in excision repair in bacteria.

Last year, when Fraser, a postdoctoral researcher working with Waters, spotted that kelp on the beach, she noticed that it carried some rather large goose barnacles.

Academics who move into industry, whether before or after working on their postdoctoral projects, face a particularly substantive issue that has strong impact on their mode of thinking.

Also working on this project were Guangzu Zhang, Houbing Huang and Qi Li, postdoctoral fellows in materials science and engineering; Xiaoshan Zhang and Jianjun Wang, graduate students in materials science and engineering and Long - Qing Chen, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering, all at Penn State.

Their work was reported on January 18 in the journal Science and on January 29 in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology by Eva Nogales and postdoctoral researchers Vignesh Kasinath and Simon Poepsel.

Imperial is planning to recruit about ten faculty, six postdoctoral researchers, and seven Ph.D. students to work on the project, with skills in process engineering, civil engineering systems, electricity distribution modelling, and resource flow analysis.And it is likely that similar research may be funded.

Das started the work as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and is the lead theorist on the study.