COVID-19 may have temporarily shuttered universities and laboratories, but this is not deterring graduate students from defending their thesis. With…
Read MoreThis panel discussion will focus on exploring biotechnology career options beyond research. Many PhDs face barriers to jobs in industry because they lack understanding of the field. Career options in biotechnology are wide in scope, and the goal of this session is to expose attendees to these paths. This panel has experience in health analytics, operations and logistics, legal affairs, and marketing.
Read MoreTanner Fadero is a PhD candidate in Quantitative Biology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, in Dr. Paul Maddox’s…
Read MoreMolly Matty received her PhD in Genetics and Genomics from Duke University while working in the Tobin lab, and is…
Read MoreCaroline Bartman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rabinowitz Lab in the Chemistry Department at Princeton University, where she studies…
Read MoreOn a typical day, I wake up, stop by my go-to café, and grab a chai on my way to…
Read MoreGrowth in the trainee population without a concomitant increase in future employment opportunities presents a Malthusian dilemma for biomedical research. One way to reduce this pressure is to move away from research primarily conducted by trainees to a system that depends more on professional staff scientists. This session will explore the benefits of a greater dependence on professional staff scientists, and the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of this shift. Current staff scientists will describe their roles and opportunities for career advancement. Faculty and administrators will describe their experiences working with staff scientists, and the institutional reforms needed to expand these ranks. The invited speakers will also engage the audience on ways to overcome roadblocks to employing more staff scientists.
Read MoreGraduate school can be a stressful time for many reasons. Some of these reasons may include pressures to have experiments…
Read MoreThe transition to any leadership position comes with new challenges and unknowns. This especially holds true for starting one’s own lab where there is no one set of guidelines or ways to go about it. This panel will provide insight and guidance for trainees on how to find and start their own labs at an R1 university. Participants will learn about the different aspects of starting and running a lab, such as interviewing and hiring, budgeting, mentoring, how to recruit students and postdocs, and much more.
Read MoreMBoC accommodations for revisions and review during the coronavirus pandemic Dear Colleagues: The Editors of Molecular Biology of the Cell…
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