Scientists interested in training in the field should
join a lab with expertise in synthetic biology.
When
students join my lab, I give them a document that states how many hours per week I expect them to work in the lab.
Unfortunately, those same details become more challenging to remember as time passes, new
students join my lab, and new research projects are pursued.
Jeff
joined the lab in September, 2014 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with Andrew Pruszynski.
Luckily, my own grant application to New York State Department of Health got funded and the senior postdoc opted to
join another lab as a research faculty.
She eventually
joined the lab for her Ph.D. thesis research, studying the potential side effects of a common treatment for age - related macular degeneration.
★ Elsässer lab receives a grant from the The Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine ★ Rui Shao
joins lab on CSC PhD student scholarhip.
After the Nobel ceremonies, Tsien asked Prasher if he would be interested in
joining his lab at UCSD.
Intrigued by the molecular details of how enzymes worked, he
next joined the lab of Michael Toney, where he set out to understand how electrons and protons move during catalysis by analyzing how mutations in the enzyme's functional site affected the reaction mechanism.
Undergraduate Researcher:
Sarah joined the lab in 2009 and graduated in 2012; she is now enrolled in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University.
There are many unwise reasons to choose a postdoc, including not having a career plan and
joining a lab only for the fame of the PI.
Malik joined the lab of Tom Eickbush, who studies genetic elements called R1 and R2 retrotransposons.
Upon joining the lab, Lee chose a high - risk project — «it sounded like more fun,» she says — aimed at determining whether a key gene in the yeast cell cycle, cdc2, was also present in human cells.
When
Conklin joined his lab, he had no experience in his PI's core area of cancer research, but he brought valuable expertise in cell imaging techniques.
«People who
initially join the lab are often surprised by the frank and open discussions that center on race, culture, politics, and religion,» says Summers.
To avoid the pitfalls of working on large genomics projects — such as always being in the middle of a long author list — graduate students and postdocs
considering joining a lab should look carefully at what that lab is doing with the data it generates, Springer suggests.
Common themes include being clear about expectations from the moment
someone joins the lab, being available to discuss issues and techniques with lab members, putting safety above saving time, and maintaining vigilance about what is going on from day to day.
And if any of my potential employers saw my PhD dance and thought worse of me because of it, then the video may have saved me
from joining a lab full of boring fun - haters.»
Babar joined the lab of James Musser and had two dedicated scientist mentors there, Steve Porcella and Kimmo Virtaneva.
LLNL postdoc researcher Thomas Voisin, a key contributor to the paper, has performed extensive characterizations of 3D printed metals
since joining the Lab in 2016.
As a graduate student at Harvard University in the late - 1980s,
Sauter joined the lab of another famed structural biologist, Don Wiley.
At the Technion, Dr.
Weiss joins the lab of current Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program Faculty Scholar Yoav Shechtman to develop methods that will more accurately measure molecular interactions.
★ Philip
Yung joins the lab on Croucher Foundation Fellowship ★ Elsässer lab receives an ERC Starting Grant!!
Braving culture shock and a formidable language barrier,
Hur joined the lab of Santa Barbara organic chemist Thomas Bruice, known for his work on the computational analysis of enzyme reactions.
Dong joined the lab of Karin Reinisch at Yale University with a singular goal for his postdoc: learn crystallography.
When Ye first approached Gu
about joining his lab in 2013, the program consisted of four graduate students and two postdocs.
Dr. Peng
Liu joined the lab in February 2012 and is currently working on characterization of cell wall genes in the amphibian pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Nicola joined the lab in September 2016 as a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience (co-supervised with Jörn Diedrichsen).
Susan joined the lab in September 2016 as a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.
For a post-doc,
Corbett joined the lab of Stephen Harrison at Harvard Medical School with the intention of studying kinetochores, enormous protein assemblies that control the motion of chromosomes during cell division.
She knew Nguyen came from the same mentor family tree and invited Nguyen to
join her lab as a research fellow.
Before joining the Lab, Rickard worked in the Massachusetts courts as the state's first Access to Justice Coordinator, where she developed and implemented new policies and programs in the areas of language access, technology, and resources for self - represented litigants.
But Dukhovlinova had some unusual opportunities: to
join a lab with up - to - date equipment, to attend overseas conferences, to train in the United States, and to work within international collaborations.