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Highlight: Career Conversation with Jen Pan, PhD


The BioMed Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies is pleased to be hosting a Career Conversation with Jen Pan, PhD, on Wednesday, August 5!

Jen Pan received her PhD in Neuroscience from Brown in 2001. From there, she worked in the biotech industry before taking on her current role as the Assistant Director of Neurobiology for the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Come hear Dr. Pan speak about her career path, offer advice to those about to start their careers, and enjoy lunch on us!

Space is limited and lunch will be provided, so please sign up to attend today at bit.ly/JenPanVisit!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
(lunch will be available starting at 11:45 AM)
Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center (Faunce House) Memorial Room, Room 229
75 Waterman Street

Notices

Archambault Teaching Award for Brown Summer Programs
The Reginald D. Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes, rewards, and promotes excellence in teaching for the Brown University summer programs. The award is presented by School of Professional Studies at Brown University. Awardees will be acknowledged at the spring Orientation for summer instructors and will be featured on the School of Professional Studies web site. The first prize awardee(s) receive a $1,000 honorarium. All Brown graduate students and Brown post-doctoral fellows on the SPS summer faculty are eligible to apply. All complete applications submitted by the deadline, and endorsed by a faculty member affiliated with the applicant’s course content, will be considered. Application Deadline: August 14. Please visit the SPS website for more details.

Campus Events

July Postdoc Happy Hour
Come socialize & network with your fellow postdocs at Brown in a relaxed, informal setting. All are welcome--we hope to see you there! Monday, July 27 from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM at The Flatbread Company, 161 Cushing Street.

Lifelong Learning with Lynda.com
Brown's Lynda subscription allows you to learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. During this session, we'll not only show you some tricks for using the site, but also discuss how you can become a more effective online learner. Thursday, July 30 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM in CIT Room 165, 366 Brook Street.

Career Conversation with Jen Pan, PhD
See above for details! Wednesday, August 5 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, Memorial Lounge (Room 229), 75 Waterman Street.

Summer Research Symposium
Come check out the summer research projects completed by undergraduates in the Life Sciences and Humanities. Thursday, August 6 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM in Sayles Hall, 79-81 Waterman Street.

Demystifying the PhD Experience: Strategies for Academic & Personal Success in Graduate School
Dates: August 24-28 (Monday through Friday)
Time:   8:30 –11:00 AM
Place:  BioMed Center Room 217, 171 Meeting Street
Faculty Trainer: Andrew G. Campbell
Senior Scholar: Rosa Martinez Garcia
Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/Qvn2aOQOoh
For further info, contact imsd@brown.edu

For more information about events, visit the University Calendar

Events Outside Brown

"Big Data" Career Paths Panel
This Futures in Life Science program will bring together experts across a wide range of disciplines and functional areas within the life science industry, who detail their roles and provide a rich context for the audience to gain a clear understanding of the skills, aptitudes, competencies, and personalities that thrive in their particular functions. This event will highlight careers in areas and companies focused on "Big Data" including bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology, statistics, modeling, personalized medicine, and next generation sequencing. Attendance for this program is open to current graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and medical residents. Tickets are $20; for more information and to register, please visit the event's website.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 5:30 - 8:00 PM
MassBio Office
300 Technology Square, 8th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139

FPR-UCLA Sex & Gender Conference 2015
Subtitled "A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behavior," this conference occurs at a critical juncture in sex/gender research in neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and related disciplines. New theories are utilizing a conception of the brain as dynamic, plastic, and adaptable, and of sex/gender brain and behavioral differences as subject to the influence of a broad range of biological, cultural, and social or environmental factors. This conference aims to bring the neuro- and social sciences together to consider three cross-cutting questions on sex/gender: why now? what’s fixed/changing/changeable? what’s at stake? For more information and to register, please visit the event's website.
October 23-24, 2015
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Cell Biology of Yeasts
This Cold Spring Harbor Symposium will cover all aspects of yeast cell biology, including, but not limited to, the following topics: Spatial and Temporal Control Mechanisms; Signal Transduction; Membrane Traffic; Actin/Polarity; and more. Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted by the abstract deadline of August 21. Early career researchers and trainees are encouraged to attend, and travel support is available. For more information and to register, please visit the event's website.
November 3-7, 2015
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

2015 NABT Professional Development Conference
The National Association of Biology Teachers is coming to Providence! Join other leaders in biology and life science education for four days of renowned speakers, hands-on workshops, informative sessions and special events that you can't get anywhere else! For more information and to register, please visit the event's website.
November 11-14, 2015
Rhode Island Convention Center
1 Sabin Street, Providence, RI 02903