Sentences with phrase «started as a postdoc»

When Eric Cornell started as a postdoc with Carl Wieman at JILA, an institute run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor lab into a basement.

Not exact matches

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

«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.

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.

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.

After several years as a bioinformatics postdoc at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, located at UCSF's Medical Center at Mission Bay, Pico's next logical step would have been to start his own lab.

Six months ago I was a postdoc working on G protein kinetics in a biochemistry department; now I'm working as an Enterprise Fellow at Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) where I teach university students «business enterprise» — entrepreneurship — while I try to start up my own business.

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.

Science does not let go, and I start as a senior postdoc in this new company.

I was obviously really disappointed to be rejected and, as my postdoc contract was coming to an end, started looking for other possible career options.

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.

«A lot of people who want to continue in science [as postdocs] get their first start overseas,» he says.

«I earn $ 32,000 now as a postdoc» — the truth — «but I don't see that a postdoc salary has much to do with a starting salary in industry; wouldn't you agree?»

Alas postdocs are also not immune to such periods of unpaid work or even career interruptions, because even though the starting date for a new position tends to be close to the allocation of the grant, the FJI reports delays as long as 8 months before the names of the grant - holders are actually announced.

«If you start off as a postdoc in the US you're getting the equivalent of A$ 29,000 to A$ 30,000 after tax, whereas in Australia it's around A$ 65,000,» he says.

So she started her career as a group leader as... a postdoc.

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.

He has been in Japan for more than seven years, starting off as a JST - supported postdoc, and then advancing to a temporary staff job.

These start out as postdoc fellowships (K99) then morph into research grants (R00).

Structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, started to think seriously about Ebola as her postdoc was drawing to a close.

For Starting Grants applicants, the typical, steadily progressing university career is described as a «Viennese Waltz,» while those with repeated postdocs are placed in the «Slow Waltz» category.

After completing a postdoc in Marseille, she will start a permanent job as a principal investigator / research scientist at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).

Given the risks involved, international students and postdocs experiencing workplace conflicts may want to start with services that ensure confidentiality, such as the ombudsman office, says Margaret Hellwarth, an international scholar adviser at the University of California, Davis.

Madou and postdoc Chunlei Wang broke this logjam by starting with a standard computer chip patterning technology known as photolithography.

But with the emergence of a few Ph.D. programmes in France, Denmark, and Italy, «a few... are able to start as a Ph.D. or make it as a postdoc.»

Years of low pay as a graduate student and postdoc probably mean you are hopelessly behind many who started work right after college.

These offices can aid in identifying the postdoctoral population, provide monetary and administrative support to a postdoc association, and act as a starting point when postdocs have identified key areas of redress.

So we read with great interest the Working Life story in which Michelle Gabriele Sandrian, an American, shared her experience working as a postdoc in Austria while starting a family.

They have to negotiate their salary point on the national academic pay scale with their employer — the university — and the starting salary for a postdoc in the pre-1992 sector can be as low as # 16,775.

There are so many spectacular examples of individuals moving on to industry, government, teaching, start - up companies, the media, and elsewhere after a 2 - or 3 - year postdoc «leavening» following their Ph.D. that it is surprising that others do not see this as a most attractive route for career enrichment.

Since Science started conducting annual surveys seven years ago, alternating between polling postdocs and postdoc advisors, the attributes that survey respondents select as being most important to a successful postdoc have not varied much.

So these institutional postdocs are expected to start applying for grant funding, either as co-principal investigators in conjunction with their faculty mentors or as independent PIs, as soon as they arrive at COAS.

After Roger Johnson finished his second postdoc, he started writing as a science journalist.

I accepted, but as this position started the following year, I stayed on in Lyon and applied to a new competitive scheme of fellowships that the University of Sydney has established to attract international postdocs.

Lori started as the director of the Science Alliance, an international career - development program for graduate students and postdocs sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences.

There are postdocs whose positions are ending this next year, who would have applied to these programs to get started as independent planetary scientists.

Just starting out as a postdoc?

Only a few months prior, he stunned his postdoc supervisor at Université de Montreal by announcing his decision to trade his fellowship for a job as a patent consultant at a start - up biotech company in Calgary.

According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship grant) would be those who had been offered faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the grant proposal.»

If you can find the time, start developing ideas as soon as you're comfortably settled in to your postdoc.

Because so few postdocs can depend on their mentors for solid help in starting such careers, Clifford emphasized, every postdoc must take the initiative and responsibility for his or her own future and must work as diligently at career development as at bench research.

Raise the starting postdoc stipend from $ 39,000 to $ 42,000 as soon as next year, and examine whether NIH needs a policy to improve postdoc benefits.

Finally, she says she started another postdoc in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University as a safety valve «because I thought I wasn't going to get the grant» from ERC.

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.

I'll be starting as an assistant professor with almost exactly the publication count and the number of postdoc years of the average new assistant professor in evolutionary ecology.

Later this year I will start a new challenge at NCI as postdoc in the lab of Dr. Electron Kebebew.

I started working as a postdoc in the Croft laboratory at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in Oct 2009.

With the start of the new year Ettema - lab welcomes a new member into their mids: Laura Eme joined us as postdoc.

Toward the end of his postdoc, as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellow, Dr. Lomvardas started working on DNA methylation and other epigenetic modifications of olfactory receptors.

2017-03-27 - New postdoc We are pleased to announce that Jaime Castro - Mondragòn will join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow starting in Oct. 2017.