Sentences with phrase «research as a postdoc»

When you finish your Ph.D., you might want to continue doing research as a postdoc.

After doing a PhD in plant molecular biology at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, I had my first taste of international research as a postdoc in the Centre National de Recherche Agronomique in Versailles, France.

Rhea Daughtery, Associate Direction of the School of Medicine Career Center, will showcase careers available outside of academia and highlight how the skills we acquire during our research as a postdoc are transferrable and valuable in many areas of industry.

«One day» for Yanqi Ye could mean continuing her research as a postdoc or in an industrial lab to translate the technology for human medicine.

Not exact matches

Requiring universities and other research institutions to regularly collect, analyze, and disseminate data on career outcomes as a condition for receiving NIH funding, so that postdocs have a realistic idea about their prospects.

Although postdocs are ostensibly trainees, soaking up knowledge about how to run their own research programs, they are in practice often employed as relatively low - cost laboratory staff.

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?

by Ireena Dutta, 27 July 2001 Doubtful that the many positive and valuable experiences she had as a Ph.D. candidate would be sufficient to compensate for the lack of job security and the demanding hours of research, Ireena Dutta decided against continuing with a postdoc.

Thoughts about IRACDA fell by the wayside as she landed a postdoc at a high - powered research institution, UC San Francisco.

As a result, the NASEM report's authors argue, postdoc training is haphazard and PIs have little incentive to prepare these young scientists for independent research careers.

As Loretta Jackson - Hayes was finishing her Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, she was planning a postdoc at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Luckily, my own grant application to New York State Department of Health got funded and the senior postdoc opted to join another lab as a research faculty.

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

Although written for postdocs, the messages are entirely relevant to your situation as your strengths and successes are also in research.

As his postdoc neared an end, Outeiro sought a way to come back to both fundamental research and Portugal.

I noticed that after your postdoc appointment, you moved to industry, where you have held several roles of increasing responsibilities, and your work focuses on [same research topic as me].

According to the 2010 Science Careers postdoc survey, PIs may view the postdoc years mainly as an opportunity for young scientists to improve research skills, but more and more postdocs are seeking to position themselves for their future careers.

As a postdoc at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Rogers used the pig model to better understand the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis — research that earned him a first - author publication in Science in the 26 September 2008 issue (p. 1837).

My graduate program and scientific mentors during my Ph.D. and postdoc emphasized communication as a critical skill, in research and beyond.

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Even if you're just starting out as a postdoc, putting your research ambitions on paper can be an excellent way to map out your career progression.

«It's not as much as we hoped,» says Future of Research Executive Director Gary McDowell, noting that the National Academies and other groups have recommended that postdocs be paid a minimum $ 50,000, «but it's certainly a step in the right direction.»

As we have repeatedly reported, research finds that graduate students» and postdocs» values vary widely across a range of issues.

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.

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.

After completing his postdoc, Sören Dürr worked as a consultant for an oil company in Norway, but then he left research science to become a grant administrator at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

A number of support programs have been initiated, from internationally focused degree programs and Graduiertenkollegs (specialized research groups for Ph.D. candidates and postdocs) to a new standardized test of German as foreign language.

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.

Danielle Salha says that the ability to publish her vaccine research was a priority for her when she joined the multinational company Aventis Pasteur as a postdoc a year ago.

«Not all of those will need to be as research minded as the Ph.D. or postdoc.

Satoshi Tanaka arrived from the northern Japanese town of Sapporo to work as a postdoc at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg (DKFZ) in 1999.

As a postdoc at Merck, Gervais was pleased to discover that there are «a lot of very talented scientists in industry who were able to devote some time to basic research.»

I decided to leave research after becoming dissatisfied as a postdoc in an academic cell biology department.

The company, which employs more than 100 postdocs, places a premium on basic (as well as translational) research, encouraging its scientists to publish in top journals.

Although the international postdocs also indicated that they had recently presented research outside their group at roughly the same proportion as domestic respondents, a significantly larger portion of international respondents stated that they had never presented outside their group.

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For years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - associated biotechnology research institute has been ranked as one of the best places in the world for postdocs to work.

But it actively «encourage [s] the formation of local associations» that transcend single institutions and already «a couple of alliances are forming» in such postdoc - rich locales as New York City and the North Carolina research triangle.

As a postdoc in modern thought and literature at Stanford, it was very beneficial for me to be teamed up with people from the sciences because it highlighted how differently we situate ourselves in relation to our research when we describe it.

(The university uses the title «research instructor» for those who have exceeded the stipulated 5 - year stint as a postdoc.)

Some of the excellent new teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and opportunities for continued participation in research.

As you research, seek student organizations, including postdoc clubs or committees at your own institution.

«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.

«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.

Indeed, most institutions will not even allow postdocs to serve as co-PIs on research grant applications — although some do — let alone as full PIs.

Surviving as a Postdoc 06 March 2013 Charmaine Tam Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research Postdoc 06 March 2013 Charmaine Tam Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research career.

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in NewResearch and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in Newresearch and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

• As Mervis writes in News & Analysis, NASA has blocked six Chinese scientists, including Yale University postdoc Ji Wang, from attending a conference held at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

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.