MCB 295* - Spring 2003
Life After Grad School: Careers for Bioscience PhDs
| Date: | Topic: | Speaker(s): |
| Jan. 27 | Academia |
Laurent Coscoy, PhD Assistant Professor of Immunology Rebecca Heald, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Barbara Meyer, PhD HHMI, Professor of Genetics and Development |
| Feb. 3 | Patent Law/Technology Transfer |
Javed Afzal, PhD Licensing Officer, UC Berkeley Shane Albright, PhD Attorney, Cooley Godward LLP Martha A. Truett, PhD Director, Collaboration Management, Chiron Corporation |
| Feb. 10 | Business/Entrepreneur/ Strategy Consulting |
Julia C. Owens, PhD Assoc. Director, Business Development Tularik Katharine Spink, PhD Associate, McKinsey & Company |
| Feb. 24 | Biotech I / Industry Larger companies |
Joe Carlino, PhD Director of Project Management, Chiron Corporation Andrea Cochran, PhD Scientist, Genentech Julio Gagne, MBA Assoc. Director, Project Management, Onyx Pharmaceuticals (previously at Chiron and Amgen) Tara Nickerson, PhD UC Berkeley MBA Candidate, '04 (previously at Celera Genomics) |
| Mar. 3 | Biotech II / Industry Smaller (non-public) companies |
Jon Dabora, PhD Venture Consultant, CW Ventures (previously at LifeSpan Biosciences) Cyrus Harmon Vice President, Computational Genomics, Affymetrix UC Berkeley PhD Candidate (previously Founder and CEO, Neomorphic) Edward Rebar, PhD Team Leader, Cardiovascular Therapeutics Sangamo Biosciences |
| Mar. 10 | Teaching Teaching college, HS |
Debra Barnes, PhD Instructor and Departmental Chair Biological Sciences Department, Contra Costa College Jennifer Brakeman, PhD Science Teacher, Head-Royce School James Grainger, PhD Chair, Biology Department Associate Professor of Biology Santa Clara University |
| Mar. 17 | Science Writing |
Philip Cohen, PhD San Francisco Bureau, The New Scientist Jonathan Knight, PhD Contributing Correspondent, Nature (San Francisco) Judy Silber, PhD Business Writer, Contra Costa Times |
| Mar. 31 | Government Laboratories |
Ken Downing, PhD Scientist, Larence Berkeley Labs Brian Harmon, PhD Criminalist, Richmond DNA Lab Department of Justice Chad Paavola, PhD NASA Ames Research Center |
| Apr. 7 | Public Policy/Regulatory Affairs | Lisa Bell, PhD Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Genentech |
| Apr. 14 | Juggling Family and Career |
Ana Anderson, PhD Post-doc, Robey Lab David Drubin, PhD Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology Jennifer Manilay, PhD Post-doc, Robey Lab Eva Nogales, PhD Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology |
| Apr. 21 | Putting it all together: resources, CVs, resumes, etc. |
Peter Dailey, PhD, MPH Director of Infectious Disease Research Roche Molecular Systems Andrew Green, PhD Career Counselor, UC Berkeley |
* Please note: due to a miscommunication among the powers that be, this course is actually MCB295, not 294 as was previously publicized. We regret any confusion this may cause.
Last updated: 4/11/03