Sentences with phrase «using as a postdoc»

She ended up being offered a consulting job by a company whose software she'd been using as a postdoc.

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This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

The current document observes that, especially since the 2000 report, a number of positive steps have occurred, such as establishment of postdoctoral offices at many universities and increased use of individual development plans to help postdocs clarify their career options.

As a postdoc at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Rogers used the pig model to better understand the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis — research that earned him a first - author publication in Science in the 26 September 2008 issue (p. 1837).

I had zero computer experience; in fact, I could barely type, but a postdoc in the lab helped me do a BLAST search using my gene's protein sequence as a query.

Our experience as postdocs in the Netherlands is quite opposite to what we were used to in Japan.

I was several years ahead of my wife, so I used funds from one of the grants I wrote as a graduate student to pay myself a postdoc stipend.

(The university uses the title «research instructor» for those who have exceeded the stipulated 5 - year stint as a postdoc.)

Switzerland - based Hoffmann - La Roche (Roche) established its first formal postdoc program 4 years ago with the explicit aim of using it as a «talent search,» says Basel - based Klaus Müller, who manages the program.

As an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problemAs an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problemas they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problems.

Many postdocs use internships, as Andringa did, as bridges to jobs outside research, but some continue on as researchers and are better rounded for it, says David Taylor, who, after doing a postdoc at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), completed an internship in the hospital's administration department.

Not only is BPA using it as an example in its attempts to improve MIT postdoc salaries, but the HMS postdoc office has been telling their faculty about the developments at Whitehead.

Her postdoc is still unable to find the right conditions for administering the drug, and she is unsure who to credit for the idea of using that particular drug on Abc1 as she drafts her paper.

Compounding the mismatch is the criticism that in many labs, this type of pre-professional training is not taking place at all, and that many postdocs are being used as a form of highly skilled but inexpensive labor to conduct the research that drives the economy.

Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.

She stayed on as a postdoc in the same microbiology group and now studies the functional genomics and bioenergetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to improve its use in winemaking.

Other issues, such as getting a campus e-mail account or using interlibrary loan services, seem simple but often must be dealt with by postdoc offices simply because of gaps in policies or procedures.

McDowell will also be «continuing efforts to collaborate with other groups,» such as the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which proposed at its Sustainability Summit in February a project to catalog, categorize, and clarify the titles that universities use for postdoc positions.

The study, which was led by postdoc Gregor Pilz and PhD student Sara Bottes, used in vivo 2 - photon imaging and genetic labeling of neural stem cells in order to observe stem cell divisions as they happened, and to follow the maturation of new nerve cells for up to two months.

I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member at an academic institution.»

Staver and former Yale postdoc Julie C. Aleman, now at the University of Montreal, used traditional sources such as early 20th - century European maps to estimate the extent of African forests in 1900.

Both as a graduate student and postdoc, Maryrose Franko took every opportunity to volunteer in science education which made her realize that «I have good people skills that I really enjoy using,» she says.

«[P] ositions may be institution - funded or grant - funded («hard money» or «soft money») and may come with varying degrees of stability (either through a tenure commitment or other funding arrangement),» but many «postdocs do not recognize that the term tenure - track is over-applied and used colloquially rather than as an accurate description of a given faculty appointment,» they continue.

«Bumblebees use what is known as an optic flow to help them avoid crashing into surrounding objects,» said Christine Scholtyssek, Postdoc at the Department of Biology at Lund University.

Rather than accruing leave days for each pay period, postdocs receive each year's leave as a lump sum on 1 January and may use it, subject to their PI's approval, during the next 12 months.

She branched out after a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), joining Science's Next Wave (as Science Careers used to be called), where she served as manager of the Postdoc Network and was instrumental in creating the National Postdoctoral Associationpostdoc at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), joining Science's Next Wave (as Science Careers used to be called), where she served as manager of the Postdoc Network and was instrumental in creating the National Postdoctoral AssociationPostdoc Network and was instrumental in creating the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA).

The terrible state of academic careers resulted not from sequestration but from the fundamental structure of a funding system that has long used graduate students and postdocs as cheap labor for grant - supported research, and as a consequence has produced too many Ph.D. researchers for the existing career opportunities.

In 2010, Clark took a position as a program manager in global health at San Diego State University, where he plans to further this policy career and use the lessons he learned at NPA to improve working conditions for postdocs at his institution.

As a postdoc and junior faculty member, Dr. Wang collaborated with radiologists and neurologists at Washington University to develop the PET / DBSI system that he is using in his work funded by BrightFocus.

As a postdoc, Nunnari was among the first to use GFP to visualize mitochondria in yeast, and helped establish the field of mitochondrial dynamics.

As a postdoc, Taylor developed an innovative laboratory technique using metallic additives and magnets to test experimental vaccines to see which B cells bind to them.

When Lepró came to the Lab in 2016 as a postdoc fellow from the University of Texas at Dallas with experience in nanotechnology, Stadermann decided to harness his ability working with nanometric and micrometric threads to try synthesizing an alternative fiber for use in NIF targets.

As a postdoc, he is interested in studying the principles of reward learning using optical methods for observing and manipulating neural circuits.