Upcoming and Past PDLC meetings
Upcoming PDLC seminars. All seminars are on Friday in Barker 434 at noon. Lunch is provided to MCB postdocs.
2017:
January 13, 2017 - NO PDLC
February 3, 2017 - Staff Scientist Positions in Academia with Monika Sigg, PhD (King Lab), Patricia Grob, PhD (Nogales Lab), and Eva Schmid, PhD (Fletcher Lab).
March 3, 2017 - Transitioning from a postdoc to faculty position. Speakers: Sarah Stanley & Dave Savage.
April 7, 2017 - Biotech. Joint MCB/IB lunch club. Details TBD.
May 5, 2017 - TBD
2016:
December 2, 2016 - Chalk talk. Professor Dirk Hockemeyer (MCB, UC Berkeley).
November 4, 2016 - NIH F32 Fellowships & the Sponsored Projects Office (SPO). Emily Stoops (Drubin Lab, MCB, UC Berkeley) & Kevin Mark (Rape Lab, MCB, UC Berkeley) , and SPO contracts and grants officers, Greta Devol & Margert Ngyuen.
October 14, 2016 - Writing a successful K99/R00 Grant Proposal. Achim Werner (Rape Lab, MCB, UC Berkeley) , Peter Walentek (Harland Lab, MCB, UC Berkeley), and Becky Lamason (Welch Lab, MCB, UC Berkeley).
September 2, 2016 - Planning Meeting
June 3, 2016 - Biotechs. Dr. J. Graham Ruby (Calico Labs), Dr. Calvin Jan (Calico Labs), Dr. Peter Skewes-Cox (Novartis), Dr. Amy Kistler (Novartis).
April 1, 2016 - Chalk Talk. Michael Rape (MCB, UC Berkeley).
March 18, 2016 - Academic Teaching Positions. Professor Brian Thornton (University of San Francisco).
February 5, 2016 - The Last Step: Faculty Offer Negotiations. Professor Richard Harland (MCB).
January 29, 2016 - Applying and Interviewing for Faculty Positions. Gloria Brar (MCB, UC Berkeley), and Seth Finnegan (IB, UC Berkeley)
2015:
December 4, 2015 - Campus Shared Services and the Sponsored Projects Office (SPO). Jim Fong (CSS, UC Berkeley), Joy Ayson-Yu (SPO, UC Berkeley), and Jessie Brown (SPO, UC Berkeley)
November 6, 2015 - WRITING A SUCCESSFUL K99/R00 GRANT PROPOSAL. Fenna Sille (Public Health, UC Berkeley) and Achim Werner (MCB, UC Berkeley)
October 9, 2015 - Planning meeting
2014:
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2012:
2011:
02/04/11 Exploratory meeting to gauge interest in regular MCB postdoc gatherings
03/04/11 Academic job market panel discussion with Professer David Bilder and current applicants
04/01/11 NRSA fellowship and K99/R01 grant advice from current awardees
05/06/11 Informal research chalk talk by Ling Song (Rape Lab); Roundtable discussion about issues concerning postdoc parents
06/03/11 Leveraging postdoc experience to obtain a job in industry