Sentences with phrase «time as a postdoc»

While I was having a great time as a postdoc, my by - then husband was doing well as an assistant professor.

The proposals are to limit the time as a postdoc to a 5 year, total, anywhere.

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.

During her time as a postdoc studying immune response to cancer at NCI, she met the other founders of NPA and helped build the organization.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

By the time Sharon finished her postdoc, in 2006, she had published 15 more papers, seven as first author.

New Ideas In his own part - time role as postdoc director, Lipscomb manages departmental awards and activities and «serves as liaison for postdocs with faculty,» Autry says.

But as a postdoc, no matter how you engage the realm of tech transfer, you should know that you will find more pluses than minuses there in terms of career opportunities, even if your plans don't involve being a full - time CEO.

When it came time to find a postdoc, I was fortunate to land a position as an annotator at the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1996.

My philosophy is that PhD students and postdocs should go to as many meetings as they can stomach and take off as much time as they like, as long as they get the work done, according to their own schedules.

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.»

I appreciate your taking the time to share what you've learned from your own experiences in graduate school and as postdocs.

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.»

Four years after leaving the lab, Vukusic returned as an unfunded postdoc, supplementing his income with some part - time teaching and a small contribution from his supervisor.

Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

These will be designed for freshly graduated PhDs, as when they are looking for a first postdoc «is the best time to get somebody to switch» to another field, says Hall.

«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.

Her concern «was compounded by my leaving the country, as once your examiners report comes in you only have a limited time... to make the changes, otherwise your thesis has to be re-examined,» continues Hansen, who received a passing notification with minor revisions the day after she arrived in the United Kingdom to begin her postdoc.

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.

While your years as a Ph.D. student or postdoc are the most decisive in your career, do not confuse working hard with working all the time.

Shapiro stayed on as a part - time postdoc in Tyack's lab, studying the effect of sonar on whales and working to publish his earlier research.

Indeed, sometimes postdocs view weekly or monthly group meetings as an imposition on their time.

But 20 will be promising young scientists not far from beyond their Ph.D. s who supervise as many as two other people — also postdocs, grad students or staff scientists — and hold one - time - only, nonrenewable, 5 - year appointments.

This means that more and more people work as postdocs for longer periods of time, on a series of short - term contracts, often in a number of different countries, before they will — or will not — transition to a group leader position.

Postdocs feel that, in a highly competitive academic system that values research output above all other factors, it is difficult to devote time to other academic duties such as supervising students.

I waited another 6 months before I left for Chiba though, as I had one postdoc and two visiting PhD students in my lab at the time and I reckoned that I couldn?t go to Japan until everybody?s project was finished.

The postdoc is, after all, a research - intensive time when you're supposed to be beefing up your publications, establishing your research program, and developing your professional network — in short, making yourself as competitive as possible for the job market.

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.

I decided to focus on postdocs because most life scientists identify the postdoc period as the crucial time to succeed or fail, a major bottleneck on the academic career trajectory.

As a byproduct of this process, UC for the first time learned the exact number and whereabouts of the postdocs working in its laboratories, information that is crucial to establishing how many signatures equal 50 % plus one.

As a foreign national (like fully half of the postdocs in the United States), I was prohibited from taking a (legal) part - time job, so I had to make it on my BNL salary alone.

As a postdoc, she's had much more time to think not only about what she's teaching, but how she's teaching.

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?»

I've talked to my future postdoc adviser, and I know that I have some structure to work with, as well as some time to think about what I want.

You can enter many of these fields in less time and with less training than a Ph.D. plus a postdoc, and they can provide as much satisfaction as research, teaching, or clinical medicine.

«CIBER was born as a conversation with Asantha Cooray, a theoretical cosmologist at UC Irvine and at the time a postdoc at Caltech with [former professor] Marc Kamionkowski,» Bock explains.

«You don't want to be forgotten; you have to go back a couple of times a year,» she says, noting that the travel bursary she received from the French Government as part of the Postdoc Initiative was very helpful in helping her maintain professional ties with France.

Are there any other courses (part - time or distance learning) or training I can do while I am still working as a postdoc?

She began as a part - time volunteer at CTT with the consent and support of her postdoc advisor.

The overtime rule, as we reported, requires that, come 1 December, many professional employees — including postdocs — who earn less than $ 47,476 a year receive time - and - a-half overtime pay for every hour they work beyond 40 per week.

The sting of rejection was just as sharp the fourth time around for Marcus Bischoff, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge, U.K. «There's a lot of disappointment,» he says, when your manuscript gets rejected by a journal.

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

As we've reported what seems like countless times, numerous reports and studies on postdocs» plight have called for raising their pay to the neighborhood of $ 50,000 and reducing their numbers (while creating more staff scientist positions).

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.

Every postdoc employed as of 28 August 2003 immediately receives a one - time bonus of $ 500.

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

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.

Every year around tax time, my fellowship sponsor sent me a photocopy of the same 1994 letter from an independent consulting firm, telling me in no uncertain terms that as a postdoc I was not «self - employed» for tax purposes.

That would have been «extraordinarily complicated to do,» Rockey said, partly because training and research are separate lines in NIH's budget and also because almost seven times as many postdocs are on research grants.