Sentences with phrase «years as a postdoc»

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.

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.

«I was advised by a mentor at the workshop to make sure that my maternity leave periods were very clearly noted on my CV so that the fewer papers that I may have published in my 5 years as a postdoc [compared with someone who has worked without a career break] will be explained,» she says.

After several years as a postdoc, I became weary of the perversely hypercompetitive, and somewhat fickle, nature of life as a biomedical researcher.

In my fourth year as a postdoc, I was excited to be offered a university faculty position.

«Generally,... there is little recognition of young researchers» by their permanent peers, says Marie Boichu, who won a permanent position in the Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique in Lille after 6 years as a postdoc.

I am finishing my third year as a postdoc, and my private fellowship will be up in April 2005.

Q: I am a foreign national, currently in my sixth year as a postdoc, and I expect to win permanent residency soon.

Martin Hudson, who spent 8 years as a postdoc, is no longer eligible to join the union, but he says unions are needed to level the playing field between disciplines and between labs.

I am now in my second year as a postdoc.

After 5 years as a postdoc, I knew this was not a career that would carry me through to retirement.

At the beginning of this year, David Lodowski took up his post as an assistant professor in proteomics and bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio after six years as a postdoc there.

After 2 years as a postdoc, Musial - Siwek went back on the job market, and an offer for an industry position came in before the re-entry grant funding ended.

Their average age is 34.6 years, and on average they spent just 5 years as postdocs — interesting statistics for anyone who believes that finding an independent position is impossible these days.

«My experience,» says Dominguez, «and what I know from my friends, is that we all got our first independent post because we were already working independently for some years as postdocs.

However, my children and I suffered the worst possible loss in 1995, during my first year as a postdoc: My first husband was killed in a car accident, in which the kids and I were also injured.

Instead of spending 5 years as a postdoc working on a supervisor's project, these scientists pursue their own ideas from the outset.

The knowledge that she could spend no more than two more years as a postdoc focused her energies.

She joined the company a year ago, after completing her Ph.D. in pharmacology and spending one year as a postdoc, both at the University of Pennsylvania.

I spent 3 years as a postdoc at Columbia University.

Not exact matches

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.

According to the 2010 Science Careers postdoc survey, PIs may view the postdoc years mainly as an opportunity for young scientists to improve research skills, but more and more postdocs are seeking to position themselves for their future careers.

One of them was with her presently as a postdoc; she'd trained the other a few years earlier.

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.

After 4 years for a bachelor's degree, 6 for a Ph.D., and several more as a postdoc, who knows whether your chosen field will still be vibrant?

As with many great ideas, this one began small, with a group of postdoctoral fellows brainstorming over water and cheese at the second annual Next Wave Postdoc Network (PDN) meeting less than 1 year ago.

Danielle Salha says that the ability to publish her vaccine research was a priority for her when she joined the multinational company Aventis Pasteur as a postdoc a year ago.

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

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 leukemia.

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.

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.

For years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - associated biotechnology research institute has been ranked as one of the best places in the world for postdocs to work.

A Bridge to Independence 3 February 2006 Despite a tight budget, NIH is moving forward with a plan to help as many as 200 postdocs each year establish their own labs.

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.

One year of funding could also be added at the end of the traditional 4 - year PhD, during which newly graduated researchers would gain extra lab experience while being covered financially as a bridge to their first postdoc position.

But such people contact could be several years down the line, and as a postdoc you might find that you only discuss your work routinely with one person — your supervisor.

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

The fact that Congress decided, in a year of intense partisan politics and even more intense budget pressure, to place science among the nation's highest priorities is as close as postdocs are likely to get to a happy ending.

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.

(One caveat to the postdoc numbers: Some of the respondents may be first - year postdocs, meaning the comparison may be to what they were earning as graduate students.)

As Stephan pointed out, postdocs» low salaries are typically justified by saying that they are still in training, despite their skills and the years of experience they have already accumulated.

Extensive, successful, grant writing, on the other hand, was only one of the «very positive» aspects of Sujatha Srinivasan's 2 years as an employee postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Most are stranded as postdocs for 5 or even 10 years before they have a shot at tenure.

The years under postdocs as these individuals seek permanent positions have stretched.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

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.

I am suggesting, rather, that it would be a good thing if that event were to motivate some self - analysis within our community about whether we're paying as much attention as we should be to the psychological well - being of science trainees and early - career scientists, from the undergraduate years through the postdoc and beyond.

Scientists who make lesser but still significant contributions to projects, including postdocs and grad students, are also in line for greater recognition as federal funding agencies switch from paper to electronic grant applications in the next few years.