Berkeley MCB Postdoc Lunch Club

 
Steve Hartman, a Senior Scientist III at Abbott Biotherapeutics will be speaking about the ins and outs of working in industry.  Please RSVP on the right by May 1, 2012.

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April's lunch club will be the second part of "applying for and getting an academic job."  Ben Monpetit, a post doc in the Weis lab will be sharing his experiences and advice.  Ben has accepted an offer at the University of Alberta.  Please RSVP on the right by Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

We hope to see you there.
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Hello.

March's Post Doc Lunch club will take place on March 9th, the second Friday of the month due to scheduling conflicts.  The topic of discussion will be "how to apply for and get an academic job."  Barbara Meyer, a professor in MCB will be our guest speaker.  Please RSVP on the right if you will be able to attend.

Hope to see you there.

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Hello.

February 3rd's PDLC will be focused on the K99 application.  Two panelists, Sarah Siegrist and Robert Glaeser, will be joining us to discuss the application process.  Sarah Siegrist is currently a post doc in the Hariharan lab and has been awarded a K99.  Robert Glaeser is a professor in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology and has served on K99 review panels.  Please RSVP (on the right) by Tuesday, January 31st, if you plan on joining us.

We hope to see you there.


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January 13, 2012 01/03/2012
 
Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a nice holiday season.  Our first PDLC of 2012 will take place on January 13th, the second Friday of the month.  The topic of discussion will be post doc fellowships.  We have invited two current NRSA recipients (Christa Cortesio and Dara Burdette) and Professor Randy Schekman who has served on many fellowship selection committees, to discuss their perspectives on what makes for a successful fellowship application.  Please RSVP (at right) by Tuesday, January 10th.
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Gary Karpen will be joining us and talking about the differences between life in private and government research institutions.

Hope to see you there.

Please RSVP (on right) by Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
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Note: The application deadline has been extended to January 6th, 2012. Travel awards are available!

This workshop is intended to bring together approximately 150 postdoctoral investigators who will soon be seeking their first independent positions. While the transition to independence is a challenge for all postdocs, young investigators who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical or behavioral sciences may have an especially difficult time finding and establishing themselves in their first independent positions. For this reason, emphasis will be placed on members of these groups.

The goal of the workshop is to cover a broad range of topics that postdocs will need to make a successful transition to independence, including making the right career choice, finding the right institutional fit, applying for a position, succeeding in the job interview and seminar, negotiating a start up package, establishing a lab, finding a mentor, networking and forming collaborations, applying for and getting a grant, undergoing the tenure process, teaching, and balancing research with many other commitments. Although the focus is on academic positions, the participants will also have an opportunity to learn about other scientific careers.

For more information see the NIGMS website.
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Hi Post Docs, 

Thanks for sharing your interests by filling out the survey! As you request, we will have a panel discussion on "Alternative careers: working in core facilities" at our next MCB Post Doc Lunch Club. We are glad to have following panelists joining us for discussion: 

Dr. Steven Ruzin, Director of the Biological Imaging Facility at UC Berkeley 
Dr. Denise Schichnes, Staff Scientist of the Biological Imaging Facility at UC Berkeley 
Dr. David King, Director of the HHMI Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at UC Berkeley 
And, Minyong Chung, Staff Research Assistant II of the Vincent Coates Genomics Sequencing Laboratory

If you are interested in learning how it is like working in core facilities, please RSVP (on the right hand bar) by Tuesday, November 1st. We will meet on Friday, November 4th in 434 Barker Hall at 12pm. Hope to see you there! 

Te-Wen and Ling

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Hello. 10/03/2011
 
Hello Post Docs,

As you may have noticed, emails and website posts are now coming from two new people (Te-Wen Lo and Ling Song), so I thought that I would take a moment to introduce ourselves.  I (Te-Wen) am a post doc in the Meyer lab and Ling is a post doc in the Rape lab.  We are very excited to be taking over for Fred and Virginie.  Thanks to the great job that they did getting the Post Doc Lunch Club started, we are well set up to have a great year.  We've already had a great meeting last month with an informative chalk talk seminar and we have lots of other great ideas, but we want to hear what you think.  We want to know how the Post Doc lunch club can best serve the post doc community.  To do this, we need your input.  You can either come to the next meeting which is on October 7th in Barker 434 at noon where we will discuss potential ideas for future meeting, or you can send us a message via this website by clicking on the link on the right side of the page.  If you think that you might come to the next meeting on October 7th, please RSVP.

Thanks.

We look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,
Te-Wen and Ling
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October 7th PDLC 09/29/2011
 
A friendly reminder that the next Post Doc Lunch Club will be on Friday,
October 7th in 434 Barker Hall at 12:00pm.  We are hoping to use this
meeting as an organizational meeting to discuss topics/ideas for future
Post Doc Lunch Club meetings.  So we hope that you will join us and share
any ideas of topics or concerns that you would like to be discussed at
future Post Doc Lunch Clubs.

Please RSVP (on the right-hand bar) if you haven't yet and if you think you may come so that we
can order enough food.

As always, we are looking for volunteers to help us organize future Post
Doc Lunch Clubs.  Let us know if you're interested!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,
Te-Wen and Ling
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