Sentences with phrase «spent as a postdoc»

On their website, the coalition institutions «commit» to gathering and publishing data on admissions and matriculation; median time to and percentage of degree completion; student and postdoc demographics; median time spent as postdocs; and, most importantly from the standpoint of those considering scientific training, «career outcomes for PhD and postdoctoral alumni, classified by job sector and career type.»

During that year, and subsequent years spent as a postdoc in Morata's lab (and later with Konrad Basler at the University of Zurich, Switzerland), Moreno was able to link the previously isolated phenomenon of cell competition to the well - established process of programmed cell death.

Limit the time spent as a postdoc to a total of about 5 years.

Not exact matches

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.

«There's a lot of similarity,» says Sarah Conley, who, having spent 4 years as a postdoc at the University of Michigan before starting at MedImmune almost 2 years ago, knows both environments.

After gathering her students and postdocs to meet with their guest and making introductions, Lundblad broke the ice by commenting, «Tom, as you can tell, we spend most of our free time... shoe shopping together.»

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

As she contemplated a postdoc, Nath decided she couldn't see herself spending her life ploughing through computer - generated data.

«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.

Odds are, however, that things will move slowly, so an early start to the job search will serve to minimize the number of weeks you spend cooling your heels as a «postdoc» in your graduate adviser's lab.

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 New Jersey.

Martin Hudson, who spent 8 years as a postdoc, is no longer eligible to join the union, but he says unions are needed to level the playing field between disciplines and between labs.

Other leading scientists leave the details of basic research to graduate students or postdocs, but Melton spends as much time as possible working at a private lab bench adjacent to his office.

So why would anyone want to spend this precious, career - building time at a small liberal arts college where, as Binney Girdler, a postdoc at Middlebury College in Vermont, says, «life revolves around the undergrads?»

Their average age is 34.6 years, and on average they spent just 5 years as postdocs — interesting statistics for anyone who believes that finding an independent position is impossible these days.

As a result, PhD students and postdocs — along with senior research staff — will have to spend some time thinking about their personal career development goals in the near future.

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.

von Fricken spent a year living in Ulaanbataar as a postdoc with Duke University, under Dr. Greg Gray, working alongside veterinarians from the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and the National Center for Zoonotic Diseases.

But the notion of forward - looking career planning and intentional information gathering is foreign to many postdocs, who, as one audience member put it, will spend weeks designing an experiment and days tracking down a particular article, but no time at all mapping out a strategy for their own futures.

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

The knowledge that she could spend no more than two more years as a postdoc focused her energies.

Dr. Yosef started his research group in January of 2014 after spending some time as a postdoc at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School.

As a member (and, currently, co-chair) of the Gladstone Postdoc Advisory Committee, I get to spend more time with people outside of my own institute (Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology), and everyone I've met here is a delight to talk to and work with.

She joined the company a year ago, after completing her Ph.D. in pharmacology and spending one year as a postdoc, both at the University of Pennsylvania.

I spent 3 years as a postdoc at Columbia University.