Berkeley MCB Postdoc Lunch Club

Dear fellow post-docs, 

Fenna Sille (Public Health, UC Berkeley) and Achim Werner (MCB, UC Berkeley), both recent K99 awardees, will join us for lunch and provide advice on how to write a successful K99/R00 grant proposal and share their experiences on the grant application and evaluation process.
As usual, there will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!


Please take a second to RSVP at the upper right corner of this webpage.


Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!



- PDLC organizing committe

Hi fellow MCB post docs,


We hope you had a great summer and are ready for a new round of MCB post doc lunch clubs (PDLC), which are great opportunity to get to know and network with your fellow MCB postdocs and to learn and discuss about topics relevant for you and your career inside and outside academia in an informal enviornment with FREE lunch. We usually have one or two guest speakers, who share their insider knowledge on a given topic ranging from the grant and faculty application to different career paths' in industry and consulting.

For this first meeting, we would like to hear about your opinions and thoughts on what topics we should discuss in the lunch clubs in the upcoming academic year and we are also looking for volunteers to help organize these meetings. This is a great opportunity for post docs to learn more about the MCB department and get in touch with faculty. 

Please join us for a FREE lunch at our kick off meeting this Friday, October 9th at Barker 434. 

Please RSVP using the box in the right corner of this webpage!

Thanks and see you on Friday! 

-PDLC organizing team

Hello everyone,

before taking a break over the summer, there will be one more post doc lunch club (PDLC) at 12pm on June 5th, in Barker 434. For this upcoming PDLC we are delighted to welcome Russell Vance, who will share his insider knowledge on the do’s and don’ts of chalk talks during interviews for faculty positions.

There will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!


Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the upper right corner of this webpage.

 

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

 

- PDLC organizing committee

Dear fellow post docs,

The next post doc lunch club (PDLC) will take place next Friday, May 1st at 12.00pm, in Barker 434.

In this upcoming lunch club we are delighted to welcome Dr. Mary West, manager of the CIRM/QB3 Shared Stem Cell Facility and the High-Throughput Screening Facility, and Dr. Hitomi Asahara, manager of the DNA sequencing facility. They will share their experience and insights on how to manage a scientific facility.
 
As usual, there will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!


Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the right upper corner of this webpage

Dear fellow post docs,

The next post doc lunch club (PDLC) will take place next Friday, February 6th  at 12.00pm, in Barker 434.

In this upcoming lunch club we are delighted to welcome Sheila McCormick, a principle investigator at the USDA Agricultural Research Center (ARS) and adjunct professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. Sheila did her postdoctoral work at a private research institution, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and has also worked as a senior research scientist at Monsanto, Biological Sciences. She will share her unique experience and insights on the differences of research at universities, government funded laboratories, private institutions, and in industry.

As usual, there will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!

 
Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the right corner of this webpage.

 

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

 

- PDLC organizing committee

Dear fellow post-docs,

 

Happy New Year and welcome back after a hopefully relaxing Christmas break! The first post doc lunch club (PDLC) of 2015 will take place this Friday, January 16th at 12pm, in Barker 434.

 

Pete Douglas (UC Berkeley) and Jordan Ward (UCSF), both current K99 awardees, will join us for lunch and provide advice on how to write a successful K99/R00 grant proposal and share their experiences on the grant application and evaluation process.

 

As usual, there will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!

 

Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the upper right corner of this website.

 

Looking forward to seeing you this Friday!

 

- PDLC organizing committee

Hello everyone,

we hope that you all had a great and relaxing Thanksgiving break and that you are ready for the last post doc lunch club (PDLC) of 2014 at 11:30am on December 5th, in Barker 434. Jacob Corn, former group and project team leader at Genetech in the department of Early Discovery Biochemistry and current scientific director of the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI) will join us to discuss aspects of research careers in academia and industry.

There will be (free) lunch and the enjoyable company of your fellow MCB post-docs!


Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the right corner of this web page.


Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

 
- PDLC organizing committee

Dear Fellow Postdocs,

We are delighted to have new faculty member Roberto Zoncu join us for the second postdoc lunch club (PDLC) of this year. He will provide us with insider knowledge on the application process for faculty positions and share his first hand experiences on how to set up your own lab.The PDLC will take place at *11:30 a.m.* on November 7th in Barker 434.

In addition to Roberto's talk, the department will be presenting the 2014 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Awards and will provide a celebratory lunch (in other words, not pizza :D).

The awardees are:

• Siyu Zhang from the Yang Dan Lab in NEURO
  
• Jigar Bandaria from the Ahmet Yildiz Lab in BBS
• Michele Ardolino from the David Raulet Lab in I&P
• Virginie Olive from the Lin He Lab in CDB
• Celine Riera from the Andy Dillin Lab in GGD

Please rsvp to Deby Johns ([email protected]) by Monday, November 3.

Hope to see you all on Friday (Nov. 7)!
 
 - PDLC organizing committee

Dear fellow post-docs,

We hope you had a great summer and are ready for a new round of post-doc lunch clubs! 

The first meeting of the PDLC this year will take place at 12:30PM on Friday October 3rd (this coming Friday), at Barker 434. We will use this first meeting to kick off the lunch clubs with our initial plans for the fall semester, and importantly get some feedback from everyone about what you'd like to hear about (and who you'd like to hear it from) in upcoming lunches.

As usual, it is an informal setting, and of course a free lunch will be provided, along with the great company of your fellow post-docs! 

Please take a second to RSVP at the box in the right of this website and we look forward to seeing you there!


Best wishes,

The PDLC organizing committee