Sentences with phrase «project as a postdoc»

When he first joined the project as a postdoc, «His task was on a specific development and generally to assist me in the management,» says Markram.

In my first project as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star - forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxy.

When working on a dissertation or a project as a postdoc, «you really need to take the lead and you need to find the interesting, novel aspects of it.

Not exact matches

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

Yoder says that although he didn't hesitate in taking on his LGBTQA project, which he began as a postdoc, he has definitely considered potential negative consequences for his image as a scientist.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

Perlstein's early independent pursuits included renting a single bench at a facility in Berkeley, California, where he conducted his own research, which he describes as a hybrid of a legacy project from his postdoc and starting to develop what would eventually become PLab.

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.

As career statistics are sure to show, only a minority of postdocs will ever have the chance to run a university lab — but skills such as budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursuAs career statistics are sure to show, only a minority of postdocs will ever have the chance to run a university lab — but skills such as budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursuas budgeting, project planning, and personnel management would help in almost any career a scientist might pursue.

«As a postdoc, I was very much wedded to a specific research project,» she says, because she was focused on developing a research narrative to present in faculty job interviews.

The memo does not mention postdocs, but it opens the way for those making major scientific contributions to projects to receive the official acknowledgement as full - fledged independent researchers that has traditionally been the exclusive prerogative of faculty members.

Scientists who make lesser but still significant contributions to projects, including postdocs and grad students, are also in line for greater recognition as federal funding agencies switch from paper to electronic grant applications in the next few years.

You need to be in a position where you can talk freely about the scientific merits of your previous project, the skills you can bring to the next company, and what you gained from your postdoc (as well as some documentation to back this all up).

The results suggest that, «[a] s a Ph.D. or as a postdoc choosing a project, I should take into account the way the projects are organized, so that I will be able to acquire expertise, but also so that I will not to be too isolated,» Carayol writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Although you can not force someone to care about what they are doing, there are ways — such as giving postdocs as much choice as possible over what projects to pursue and ownership over the work — to encourage productivity.

As a clinical postdoc, I've learned not only how to plan and run clinical research projects, but also how to manage those projects and the numerous people associated with them.

I waited another 6 months before I left for Chiba though, as I had one postdoc and two visiting PhD students in my lab at the time and I reckoned that I couldn?t go to Japan until everybody?s project was finished.

McDowell will also be «continuing efforts to collaborate with other groups,» such as the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which proposed at its Sustainability Summit in February a project to catalog, categorize, and clarify the titles that universities use for postdoc positions.

«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.

Companies in the consortium locate postdocs at universities and offer them funding to work on industry projects in such areas as nanobiotechnology, marine biotechnology, and vaccine development.

The only negative aspects of Tullis's internship experience at Michigan were that she was paid as a postdoc and she had to explain the label «intern» when dealing with members of the business world, where an intern is typically an undergrad doing a summer project.

While a postdoc at INSERM in Paris, Jonathan Dando applied for 134 jobs outside of academic research before landing a job on his doorstep, as a European project manager for INSERM Transfert, INSERM's technology - transfer company.

Since 1995, Dr. Jobhunter has been working as a postdoc on a rheumatoid arthritis project at Bristol University.

Before she became responsible for YRP, Christine Bunthof (33) worked as a postdoc on a bioinformatics project at Plant Research International in Wageningen.

And being able to give people fun and interesting experiments to do right off the bat boils down to — once again — spending time as a postdoc thinking about the kinds of projects you want to pursue later in your career.

Instead of spending 5 years as a postdoc working on a supervisor's project, these scientists pursue their own ideas from the outset.

But on balance, Long sees working with undergraduate students, instead of graduate students and postdocs, as an advantage: «Because their lives aren't dependent on it if a project fails, we can do all kinds of crazy stuff here.

The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and postdocs each have a «dual role» as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural research, in an interview with Science Careers.