Sentences with phrase «staff scientist»

One way to provide more job opportunities for Ph.D. scientists would be to increase the number and stature of staff scientists in university labs.

However, there aren't enough faculty jobs or even staff scientist positions for postdocs currently seeking them.

Many postdocs become staff scientists in industry or follow one of any number of alternative career paths.

Creating more staff scientist positions will be an ongoing challenge because long - held traditions create cultural barriers to change, and limited funding reinforces the use of more affordable postdocs.

Some research leaders have suggested that labs should rely more on staff scientists and less on the cheap labor of graduate students and postdocs.

Although many staff scientists have long careers, they can fall between the cracks in ways that slow career growth.

Some 200 Ph.D. holders, about three quarters of them postdocs and the rest faculty members and university staff scientists, have listed their qualifications with the company.

Even the agency's own staff scientists have violated the reporting law three - quarters of the time.

But regardless of whether an institution has well - established resources and infrastructure to support staff scientists, the greater responsibilities of the role inevitably lead to career and professional development.

There can be a stigma against the role, staff scientists acknowledge.

In other cases, European staff scientists are involved in the work of several different labs at the same.

Additionally, it usually takes several years to acquire the scientific maturity and experience of a skilled staff scientist.

Currently the academic career progression goes from graduate student, to postdoc, to staff scientist in some institutions, then on to assistant, associate, and full professor.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

Our legislative team, including our national climate team, plus many staff scientists and our national communications team.

But how to control the shape is related to how you passivate a surface during the growth process, and exactly how ligands passivate the surface [and how electronic structures happen] has never been well understood,» adds Lin - Wang Wang, senior staff scientist at Berkeley Lab and leader of Berkeley Lab's Computational Material Science and Nano Science Group.

«We're working with clinicians to get samples from older, lean people with diabetes to see if this cell type is also implicated in human disease,» says Michael Downes, a senior staff scientist at Salk involved in the new study.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

How distressing, therefore, to learn that Susanne Moser is a former staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«People have been creating these really high - pressure states for decades, but what they didn't know until MEC came online is exactly how these high pressures change materials — what drives the change and how the material deforms,» said SLAC staff scientist Bob Nagler, a co-author of the report.

«The accelerator circuit gives CMV the powerful strategic advantage to outpace immune defense systems,» said Gladstone Staff Scientist Cynthia Bolovan - Fritts, PhD, the paper's other lead author.

Faculty members and institutions, for their part, should realize that the position of staff scientist does not imply a lack of scientific drive or disinterest in professional advancement and should strive to promote and nurture more of these positions.

«We found that people who carry progranulin mutations were nearly twice as likely to have retinal lipofuscin deposits than healthy people,» shared Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist at Gladstone and lead author of the study, as well as adjunct assistant professor of neurology at UCSF.

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

«None of the existing methods to predict material stability were working,» said study lead author Francesca Toma, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division.

They will work in collaboration with staff scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries to collect samples of water, microbes, sediment, corals and sponges to monitor the health of the reefs.

Last year, French immunologist Amélie Bigorgne got the job she always wanted: a permanent staff scientist position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).

Currently, there are not many institutes that offer staff scientist positions, and they're even rarer in university settings.

Let the PIs hire staff scientists at a living wage with full benefits, and treat them like employees.

«Even though the success rate in patient cells cultured in a dish was low, we saw that the gene correction seems to be very robust in embryos of which one copy of the MYBPC3 gene is mutated,» says Jun Wu, a Salk staff scientist and one of the paper's first authors.

Thus lignin binds exactly where it is least desired for industrial purposes,» said ORNL staff scientist Loukas Petridis.

For the past few years, Houze has filled a valued role as a collaborator with PNNL staff scientists, advancing the science of clouds and sharing his legacy of transformative research influencing how meteorologists and climatologists think about atmospheric convection.

These drugs have produced limited clinical responses to date, but we believe with further investigation that we may be able to repurpose these drugs as a viable approach to impair a tumor's ability to adapt to hypoxia,» said Young Chan Chae, Ph.D., an associate staff scientist in the Altieri lab and first author of the study.

Sandra Slutz, Lead Staff Scientist at Science Buddies, has frequently served as a judge at local and national science fairs, including ISEF.

«Companies can inspire the next generations of scientists and engineers by spending time in today's classrooms,» said Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific.

More of the work should be done by staff scientists in stable positions and less of it by (fewer) trainees.

Participants agreed that culture change is needed to build respect for staff scientists within academe.

With Hutch staff scientist Dr. John Lamb, Simon recently identified a compound that may improve on drugs that treat ovarian and other cancers.

«With this new technique, we can grow large sheets of electronic - grade graphene in much less time and at much lower temperatures,» says Caltech staff scientist David Boyd, who developed the method.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

Research institutes, large universities, and some hospital centers have full - time staff scientists who receive a salary exclusively from their research grant (s).

As part of this partnership, and partnerships with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, Xerces staff scientists are surveying public lands in several states for monarchs and milkweeds.

Researchers who contributed to the work include staff scientist Mathias Leblanc, Ph.D. and postdoctoral researcher Mark Wade, Ph.D., in the Gene Expression Laboratory and professor Aart G. Jochemsen, Ph.D. at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Dr. James Kublin is a principal staff scientist for the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutch and also serves as executive director of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN.

by combining the expertise and interests of faculty members and experienced staff scientists (also known as research scientists).