Not exact matches
In 1988, Lundblad returned to California; her husband, Lou Zumstein, a molecular biologist, had secured a
postdoc position at Stanford University, so she arranged to do a
second postdoc with Blackburn.
While her ambition was to be a principal investigator, and extensive
postdoc research experience is most commonly a requirement for an academic
position, she nonetheless loathed the idea of completing a
second postdoc.
So, after a string of short - term
positions in academia — 1 year teaching, a 2 - year
postdoc in Italy, and 16 months in a
second postdoc back in France — she decided to try her luck elsewhere.
Moreno's first job in the lab — helping a
postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved in organ development and
positioning — earned him a
second - author paper in Science just a couple of years into his Ph.D..
An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a
postdoc, Suter believes that «young investigators who are in the
position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a
second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.
«My sense is that the next 6 months or so will be critical» for the academic job market, says University of Oregon geography
postdoc Jennifer Marlon, who also took a
second postdoc, a 2 - year
position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, funded by the National Science Foundation's Earth Science program.
He had left the lab after a
second postdoc not because he felt done with research, but because he didn't think he would be competitive for the tenure - track faculty
positions he really wanted.
After doing postdoctoral fellowships in the United States, Küster - Schöck and her husband expected to go back to Germany, but instead went to McGill University in Canada, where he got a faculty
position, and she did a
second postdoc before becoming manager of the university's proteomics and genomics facilities.
One small footnote: Vul notes that his
second postdoc supported by the CPS grant has taken a faculty
position in India because U.S. visa rules require him to go back to his home country for a few years before trying to settle permanently in the United States.
Six months into Dr. Lahav's
second postdoc, at Harvard's Bauer Center for Genomics Research, the Systems Biology department at Harvard Medical School was formed and she was asked to apply for a faculty
position there.