He focused his attention on the United States and decided on a 3 -
year postdoc in the lab of George Whitesides in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
Next came a 2 -
year postdoc in a lab in Munich.
So in 1994 she started a 3 -
year postdoc in the lab of Carol Prives at Columbia University in New York City, working on the tumour suppressor p53.
Not exact matches
He went on to gain wet
lab skills during a 2 -
year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution
in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford
in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Some of my best friends and collaborators I met
in the
lab, when they came to give a lecture at my university, or at conferences during my Ph.D. and
postdoc years.
I could stay
in the
lab for another two
years as a
postdoc, a
lab manager, and a technician, i.e as a half god.
Four
years later, with his Ph.D. and a dozen journal articles
in hand, he found his way to Yale as a
postdoc in the
lab of molecular biophysicist Thomas Steitz.
After finishing a
postdoc in Barabási's
lab this
year, González, a statistical physicist, got four job offers, only one of which came from a physics department.
A job
in academia is unlike grad school or your
postdoc years with unlimited hours
in the
lab.
In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemi
In 2011, after spending 8
years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a
postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemi
in the
lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.
After graduating
in 1998, Bry went to Boston for a 3 -
year pathology residency, followed by a
postdoc in molecular immunology
in the
lab of Michael B. Brenner, now chief of rheumatology, immunology, and allergy at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Christakis, for example, will have four
postdocs in the
lab this
year: a psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D.
in economics, a computational biologist, a physical anthropologist, and a physicist.
CDC: The typical academic laboratory employs «agents» with a wide range of expertise and experience, from the unmotivated undergraduate student who understands little about the work, to the experienced technician who is,
in effect, the
lab's Chief Operations Officer, to the advanced
postdoc who may know more about the work than the «principal» and will be running her own laboratory
in a
year or two.
After two
postdocs — 2.5
years working
in the
lab and with students — and a lot of self - assessment, informational interviewing, and occupational research, I found myself moving again.
Moreno's first job
in the
lab — helping a
postdoc develop a mutagenesis technique to identify new genes involved
in organ development and positioning — earned him a second - author paper
in Science just a couple of
years into his Ph.D..
In recent years, a small but steadily increasing number of funding programs have been put in place to help postdocs pursue their own research projects while remaining in someone else's la
In recent
years, a small but steadily increasing number of funding programs have been put
in place to help postdocs pursue their own research projects while remaining in someone else's la
in place to help
postdocs pursue their own research projects while remaining
in someone else's la
in someone else's
lab.
During that
year, and subsequent
years spent as a
postdoc in Morata's
lab (and later with Konrad Basler at the University of Zurich, Switzerland), Moreno was able to link the previously isolated phenomenon of cell competition to the well - established process of programmed cell death.
Angel White, who finished her Ph.D.
in Letelier's
lab last
year and is now a
postdoc, landed a NASA earth science fellowship but decided not to renew because, she calculated, it was best to keep working on marine - science projects supported by NSF instead of NASA - funded research on remote - sensing tools.
«After a
postdoc has spent three
years in a
lab, there are usually so many projects
in place that the supervisor can not continue with every project.
After a 1 -
year postdoc in Morrison's
lab, he finished the fourth, final
year of his medical degree
in 1998 and headed to his residency
in neurology — a natural choice — at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
It is perhaps a testament to this flexibility that the institute has had over 500
postdocs in the past five
years, representing almost 50 nationalities, «which makes good
lab parties where everybody brings the traditional food of their countries,» laughs Louvard.
First, although the immunology research
in my
lab has expanded considerably during the subsequent 8
years, there is no doubt that I would have emerged from a traditional
postdoc with a stronger foundation
in immunology.
I?ve had the chance of having two Japanese
postdocs working
in my
lab already and a third will come next
year.
«
Postdocs and students who are currently working
in stem cell
labs are finding themselves very highly marketable, but they should also think about how the field will transform
in five or 10
years, about the bigger picture, and how to ask questions and develop expertise that will be relevant over the long term,» says Watt.
On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous
postdoc in a well respected
lab for however many
years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs
in your field.
At Stanford,
postdoc Robert Busch started a peer - counseling group for fellow
postdocs (see the «counseling» link on the SUPD website) a few
years ago after hearing various kinds of «horror stories» about the way that people were being treated
in their
labs.
The $ 500,000 pilot program, announced
in July, will enable principal investi ators to hire a technician for up to 2
years to assist a
postdoc in their
lab who has primary caregiving responsibilities.
Fast forward 2
years: Gray is working as a
postdoc in the
lab of USC oncology researcher Michael Wong, on a nanoparticle drug delivery system.
In my case, the senior fellowship means my salary along with that of two
postdocs and the equipment and other costs of running a
lab for 5
years.
Through decisions made haphazardly 60
years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our
labs primarily with graduate students and
postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their
labs,» often with PhD staff scientists
in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.
According to 81 percent of the survey respondents, the average length of a
postdoc in their
labs was around three
years or less; however, 16 percent placed it at four
years or more.
Instead, scores of thousands of them spend the
years after they earn their doctorates toiling
in low - paying, dead - end postdoctoral «training» appointments (called
postdocs)
in the laboratories of professors, where they ostensibly hone skills they would need to start
labs of their own when they become professors.
«As a guy who did 5
years in postdocs, 7
years in academia, ran a
lab, published papers, I thought that my stock
in the private sector would be pretty high,» Mintz remembers.
For two
years Ambros worked with Ruvkun, who was then a fellow
postdoc in Horvitz's
lab, to clone the lin - 14 gene.
After some thought, he made an effort, during the final
year of his
postdoc, to get involved
in projects where he could supervise other people
in the
lab.
Science magazine reports this week (subscription required) that Jong Hyuk Park, who was a
postdoc in the
lab of University of Pittsburgh researcher Gerald Schatten, has been barred for 3
years from any relationships with U.S. agencies.The Office of Research Integrity of the U.S. Public Health Service imposed the sanctions on Park for faking figures
in a paper on monkey cloning.
French
postdoc Jonathan Grizou, who just over a
year ago started applying his background
in developmental robotics to chemistry at the University of Glasgow, is focused on succeeding
in his new
lab.
Second
year postdoc Samuel Williams, who works
in Dixit's
lab, agrees.
(«I finished my Ph.D. last
year in the laboratory of Dr. V, working on W, and currently I'm a
postdoc in Dr. X's
lab at the university of Y working on Z. Having done some career - related research, I'm thinking I might like to work
in regulatory affairs.
There have been lots of conversations
in recent
years about how science career paths don't all follow the trajectory of: degree — > PhD — >
postdoc (s)-- >
lab head.
Later this
year I will start a new challenge at NCI as
postdoc in the
lab of Dr. Electron Kebebew.
(Reddien worked as a
postdoc in S ‡ nchez Alvarado's
lab before arriving at Whitehead this
year.)
Fedor: My introduction to mechanistic enzymology occurred when I was a
postdoc in Olke Uhlenbeck's
lab in Colorado
in the same
year that Tom Cech and Sid Altman were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of RNA catalysis.
I had students
in China and India coming to do their theses with me and a
postdoc in Europe, but they couldn't come, so I had an empty
lab for the first
year.»
Each
postdoc or graduate student
in the participating
labs presents their work once a
year.
Cuervo joined Dice's
lab as a
postdoc in 1995, and she stayed for six
years.
My curiosity was thus piqued when 3
years later Carl Novina, a
postdoc in Phillip Sharp's
lab whom I had known when he was a graduate student at Tufts, came to me with the still - unpublished news that RNA silencing also functions
in mammalian cells.