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Highlight: Academic Job Search Panel
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Are you currently seeking an academic position, or simply curious about the process of landing a tenure-track position at a college or university? Then join us for an informational panel with Brown professors about the academic job search in the sciences:
This event is hosted by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Graduate School and will cover all aspects of the process, from finding vacancies and preparing your CV to campus visits and job offers.
Faculty panelists include:
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Kimberly Mowry, PhD
Professor and Chair - Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
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David Henann, PhD
Assistant Professor - Engineering
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Chanelle Howe, PhD
Assistant Professor - Epidemiology
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Amanda Jamieson, PhD
Assistant Professor - Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Light refreshments will be served. This event is open to all Brown graduate students and postdocs; sign up here to let us know you’re interested in attending and to submit questions to the panel. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, April 27, 3:30-5:00 PM
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House
75 Waterman Street
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Notices
Volunteer Opportunity: Amos House
Amos House is a great organization that provides various support services to those in need in Providence. One way they help is by feeding hundreds of people every day, and to do so they rely on volunteers to come in to help prepare meals. Please consider spending a few hours later this year giving back to our community and meeting some colleagues! Anyone reading this is welcome. Please RSVP to Kate Duggan--space is limited! Saturday, June 11, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Amos House, 415 Friendship Street, Providence.
Own your career! Apply to the MIT IMPACT program
The Fall 2016 IMPACT program for post-doctoral and advanced pre-doctoral trainees provides group interdisciplinary mentorship with teams from academia, medicine, and industry, to help you focus your research ideas and career goals. The program can help you explore and defend the real world impact of your research; improve your capacity to talk about yourself and your work to diverse audiences; increase your appreciation for different career paths; build, support, and use diverse professional networks from academia, medicine, and industry; and craft pro-active strategies for your personal career development. Applications are due May 20, 2016, for more information, please visit the
program's website.
NIH Career Symposium on May 6
The 9th Annual NIH Career Symposium aims to highlight the diversity of career choices available to your generation of biomedical researchers. Whether you are a new graduate student, postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you. For more information, please visit the event's website.
iBiology: You Got a Faculty Position: Now What?
iBiology, in partnership with the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), has released a new video in which Dr. Avery August, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Cornell University, offers advice for those starting their first faculty position.
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Career Tip Central
What: The NIH Extramural Nexus
Who Runs It: The Office of Extramural Research (OER) at NIH, an office that provides the leadership, oversight, tools and guidance needed to administer and manage NIH grants policies and
operations.
What it Offers: The NIH Extramural Nexus provides regular updates on NIH grants policies and activities that impact the entire grants community. The Nexus offers NIH the opportunity to help the scientific community gain a better understanding of NIH grants issues, while at the same time allowing you to weigh in on current happenings that affect the extramural community as a whole.
Why It's Worth Checking Out: The Nexus is set up like a blog with categorized entries that include extensive archives; it features news and opinion pieces on NIH funding and policies that come directly from the NIH; the Nexus is also the home of 'Open Mike' - the blog of Dr. Michael Lauer, who serves as NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural Research and directs the Office of Extramural Research.
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Postdoc Opportunity
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Clinical and Affective Neuroscience - Brown University - Providence, RI
A post-doctoral Research Associate position is immediately available at the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Brown University Medical School. The position will focus on the analysis psychophysiological outcomes of multiple forms of mental training programs for depression from a NIH-funded clinical trial. The trial dismantles standard Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and compares outcomes with two matched 8-week programs with a single components: focused attention (FA) and open-monitoring (OM). Outcomes include attention, sleep, emotion regulation and self-related processing. Types of outcome data include self-report, peripheral biological (EKG, EMG), behavioral or neuropsychological, and neuroimaging (EEG). The post-doc will have the support of senior statisticians of the UMass statistics core, as well as
the Mindfulness Research Collaborative researchers in both analysis and manuscript writing.
The successful candidates must have a PhD in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or other related field, with a strong background in both statistics and psychophysiology, particularly EEG (both spontaneous and ERP). The applicant must be proficient in spoken and written English, work well in teams, and have a strong publication record. Programming skills in Matlab (EEGlab) is an asset, as is rapid publication abilities. Ideally, the applicant will have experience with mindfulness-based interventions and an interest in pursuing this line of research. For more information and to apply, please view the job posting.
See more postdoc opportunities
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Career Position
Assistant/Associate Professor - Cancer Immunology & Virology and Microbiology & Immunobiology - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School - Boston, MA
Harvard Medical School is seeking highly motivated individuals with demonstrated potential for creativity and excellence who are working on central problems in immunology and cancer immunology. Cancer immunology is now one of the most exciting frontiers in cancer research, and recent clinical trials have shown that immunotherapies can induce durable responses in diverse types of advanced cancers. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a major research center in the Boston area, and the institute and the department offer a vibrant and interactive research community in both basic and translational immunology research.
The faculty appointment will be in the Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology at the Harvard Medical School. The position provides an attractive start-up package and outstanding opportunities for collaboration with basic and translational investigators. The Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School offer outstanding technical resources in many areas, including mass cytometry, flow cytometry, imaging, proteomics and genomics. Candidates are expected to participate in the teaching activities of the Harvard Medical School for medical students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For more information and details on how to apply, please view the job posting.
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Postdoc Funding Opportunities
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Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
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