A Sampling of Careers in Biology
Biology Postdoc Association
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
MIT Biology is proud to present the IAP Program "Sampling of Careers in Biology". This program will cover non-traditional paths for Biology PhD's. Please join us at five exciting seminars featuring speakers who are at the top of these respective fields.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/biology/iap.html
Contact: Amy Keating, 68-622a, x2-3398, keating@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology
Editing and Publishing
Dorit Zuk, Jodi Hirschman
Dorit Zuk, Ph.D., Editor, Molecular Cell & Jodi Hirschman, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database. Writing and Editing is rapidly becoming a popular career for those of us in science. What jobs are out there? What skills do you think you'll need? Where do you find out more information? Come hear from those in the field and what they think you need to do, to do what they do!
Thu Jan 19, 12-01:30pm, 68-121
Careers in Law
Joanna Wu & Ignacio Perez de la Cruz
Joannu Wu, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Ropes & Gray, Ignacio Perez de la Cruz, Ph.D., Patent Agent, Ropes & Gray. Thinking of using logical reasoning and scientific framework that you honed in graduate school to leverage a career in Law? Come hear scientists who've blazed those trails!
Tue Jan 24, 12:30-02:00pm, 68-181
Entrepeneurship & Venture Capital
Woody Sherman, Ph.D., McKinsey Consulting
Got an idea and want to make it into a company? MIT is famous for producing great ideas from basic research and translating concepts into businesses. Come hear from someone who has made that happen!
Wed Jan 25, 12:30-02:00pm, 68-181
Biotech
Adam Tomasi, Rachel Meyers, Thomas Keating
Adam Tomasi, MIT Sloan School of Management, Rachel Meyers, Ph.D., Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Thomas Keating, Ph.D., AstraZeneca. Join us for short talks and a question and answer session with scientists who've made the jump into Biotech and Pharma. Thinking of making the jump? What's the best place for you? Startups? Big Pharma? Medium Biotech? Come meet folks in all sectors of the scientific industry!
Thu Jan 26, 12:30-02:00pm, 68-121
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Exploring Electronic Brain Atlases: An Introduction
Louisa Worthington Rogers
Mon Jan 30, 02-03:30pm, 14N-132, DATE CHANGED TO JAN 30!
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 06-Jan-2006
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: none
NEW DATE: JAN.30TH. Join Science Library staff for a tour of electronic brain atlases available on CD-ROM in the Science Library. These atlases are available only on a Ready Reference Computer in the Science Library, and not on the MIT network due to license constraints. A scanner is available for scanning images from the atlases to your desktops.
Included are Nolte's The Human Brain: An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy (5th edition); Atlas of the Human Brain (Mai, Assheuer, Paxinos); Atlas of the Sensory Organs; The Cerefy Clinical Brain Atlas (CCBA); stereotaxic atlases of human and animal brains. Session will include demonstrations of the atlases with time at the end to try out some of the atlases. Suggestions for atlases you would like us to buy for the collection are welcome!
Contact: Louisa Worthington Rogers, 14S-134, x3-6575, elworthi@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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HST Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program: MEMP
H. Frederick Bowman
Mon Jan 30, 02-03:00pm, E25-119
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
HST's Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) Program is one of the largest biomedical engineering doctoral programs in the nation. This program is intended to provide sufficient grounding in medicine, science, and engineering to enable students to both formulate and solve problems at the interface of technology, biomedical sciences, and clinical medicine. An HST faculty member and current MEMP students will present and discuss unique features of the HST PhD program in Biomedical Engineering, and will answer any questions students might have.
Contact: Amy Magiera, E25-518, amagiera@mit.edu
Sponsor: Health Sciences & Technology
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Proteomics and Protein Technologies
Prof. Amy Keating
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
We welcome to our IAP series world leaders in proteomics and protein science from the Boston area. Talks will describe a wide range of cutting edge technologies and large-scale approaches for characterizing the proteome, as well as strategies for interpreting and using the resulting data.
Contact: Prof. Amy Keating, 68-641, x2-3398, keating@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology
Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Cellular Signaling Networks
Forest White, Ph.D., MIT Division of Biological Engineering
Wed Jan 11, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Proteomics in Biology and Medicine
Steven A. Carr, Ph.D., Broad Institute
Fri Jan 13, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Interactome Networks
Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Dept of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Tue Jan 17, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Systems-Based Approaches to Studying RTK Signaling
Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D., Harvard Department of Chemistry
Thu Jan 19, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Protease Substrate Discovery using Quantitative Proteomics
Saskia Neher, Ph.D, MIT Department of Biology
Fri Jan 20, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Functional Proteomics for Biomarker and Target Discovery
Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Institute of Proteomics, Harvard Medical School
Tue Jan 24, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Towards in vivo Structural Biology: A Model of the Septin Complex Determined by FRET Microscopy
Kurt Thorn, Ph.D., Bauer Center for Genomics, Harvard Univ.
Wed Jan 25, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
Protein Engineering & Biomedicine
K. Dane Wittrup, Ph.D., MIT Div of Biological Engineering
Thu Jan 26, 03:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium
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Taking the Next Step in Academic Science
Biology Postdoc Association
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
MIT Biology is also offering a selection of roundtables on the practice of science, navigating academia, and balancing it all with a life outside the lab.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/biology/iap.html
Contact: Amy Keating, 68-622a, x2-3398, keating@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology
Finding a Faculty Position
Tania Baker, Dan Bolan, Veronica Godoy-Carter
Looking for that professorship is a daunting process. What do search committees look for? Where do you find more about jobs? What questions should you ask? What do you need to keep in mind? Come find out from faculty from MIT and other local universities who have experienced both sides of the fence!
Wed Jan 11, 12-01:30pm, 68-181
Life as a Postdoc at MIT
Group discussion
Marilyn Smith, Fred Crowley, Shawn Foley, Janet Fischer - a.k.a. Postdoc-Boot-Camp! Are you wondering what it means to be a postdoc at MIT? What benefits are you eligible for? What is your exact status and how does that impact your time here? The questions and more will be addressed by a panel of speakers focusing on issues for postdocs. If you've just come to MIT, be sure to come and get some facts.
Thu Jan 12, 12-01:30pm, 68-181
Balancing Family and Science
Group discussion
Jill Crittenden, Charlie Whittikar, Melissa Kosinski-Collins, Mary Quick Stewart - Minipreps, check. Pipette tips, check. BLAST search, check. Kids...kids? We've got a group of scientists who will share with us how they are balancing the load of research science with the responsibilities of raising a family.
Wed Jan 18, 12:30-01:30pm, 68-181
Grant Writing/R01s
Steve Bell, Troy Littleton
Steve Bell, Ph.D., MIT Professor & Troy Littleton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MIT - Getting grants is critical to both starting and maintaining your research lab. Come hear from faculty who have been through the process from both the application and the decision-making side.
Fri Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 68-181
Women in Science
Group discussion
Andrea McClatchey, Ph.D., Elba Serrano, Ph.D., Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D., and Aurora Burds Connor, Ph.D., -Growing numbers of women in science have greatly advanced progress in research in stellar leaps; however, there are still specific challenges faced by women in academic science even today. Faculty will share with us their experiences.
Mon Jan 30, 12-01:30pm, 68-181
Academic Teaching Positions
Tracey Ware
Tracey Ware, Ph.D., Program Director, Nuclear Medicine Technology, Department of Biology, Salem State College-- Being a faculty member at a liberal arts college has its own difficulties. Balancing the teaching load with the growing desire for departments to require outside scientific funding is a tricky task. Come hear how this juggling act really happens!
Thu Feb 2, 12:30-02:00pm, 68-121
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The Quest for Consciousness
Gabriel Kreiman
Fri Jan 13, 20, 27, 11am-12:00pm, 46-5165
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
What is the neurobiological basis of consciousness? This question constitutes one of the most challenging and fascinating problems in Neuroscience. This series will focus on a description and discussion of the search for the neuronal basis of visual consciousness. The discussion will focus largely on the efforts of Francis Crick and Christof Koch, particularly on Prof. Koch’s book (see http://www.questforconsciousness.com/).
For further information, please check web page (see below)
Web: http://ramonycajal.mit.edu/kreiman/academia/classes/ncc/iap_ncc.htm
Contact: Gabriel Kreiman, 46-5155, x3-0547, kreiman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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