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Join us as Rutgers CAPS Community Based Counselors, Shan Reeves, LCSW, Mei-ling Cheng, LPC and Dana Simons, LPC, discuss the unique challenges facing graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups as well as international students with an emphasis on mental health, and how we faculty members can best support these students. We will also discuss a case study and share experiences and advice in mentoring students from underrepresented groups as well as international students.

 

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This active learning workshop for PhD students, Postdoctoral Fellows and faculty will use techniques and case study discussions in breakout sessions to teach tools and skills to better mentor undergraduate students in a research setting.  Attendees will also reflect upon approaches they would use to mentor trainees and employees when they are running a lab or research group in the future. An opportunity to earn a Microbadge in Mentoring Undergrads will be available for those who wish to follow up with additional activities.

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Note: This is a 2 day in person workshop. You only need to register once, however attendance at both days is required from 9am-5pm. 
Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.  The focuses of this workshop will be working with genomics data, and data management & analysis for genomics research. They will cover metadata organization in spreadsheets, data organization, connecting to and using cloud computing, the command line for sequence quality control and bioinformatics workflows.

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New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) was founded in 2014 and combines the vast resources of NJIT, strong industry and government relationships, and proven methods to drive innovation and deliver transformative products and services. The Entrepreneurship team oversees incubator and accelerator programs at VentureLink. They are a tech venture hub for those who want to bring technology to market. Come to meet the scientist and companies that reside in the incubator that is now led by Rutgers alum Michael Johnson, PhD who founded Visikol while he was still in graduate school and has become wildly successful. We will also get to tour the labs and learn what skill sets they are looking for in new hires for fresh PhD graduates and postdocs.

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Come to visit the New Jersey Bioscience Center, a 300,000 SF, 50 acre research park that includes the Incubator at North Brunswick, with 27 private wet labs and the multi-tenant Step-Out Labs at North Brunswick for growing biotech companies.  Larger life sciences space ranging from 5000 – 32,000 SF are also on site. We will hear from resident companies about their research and what kinds of fresh PhDs and postdocs they are looking to hire. We will also get to tour the labs and network with the scientists who work at these small to mid-size companies. It is a great place to get your foot in the door of industry.

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Hear from Rutgers alum who work at Daiichi Sankyo about their career paths and current roles in Clinical Development/Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Marketing and Diagnostics. Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company with corporate origins in Japan. They provide innovative products and services in 29 countries/regions around the world. With more than 120 years of experience, they have many drugs in the pipeline include several oncololy therapies ranging from biologics to small molecules.

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GenScript Biotech Corporation is the world’s leading technology and service provider of life science R&D and manufacturing. Built upon its solid gene synthesis, they strive to become the most trustworthy biotech company in the world, and to make people and nature healthier through biotechnology. We will visit their US Head Office in Piscataway for an information session to hear more about GenScript and enjoy lunch. They will provide an overview of the company, have a few members from different departments descript they type of work they perform including their Production, Sales and Marketing teams. They will also take us on a tour of the facility and have some networking time.

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20 Kingsbridge Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854

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Pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) information form the scientific basis of modern pharmacotherapy and it is critical for all scientists to understand these concepts. Dan Gordon, PhD Executive Director of Sunovion Pharmaceuticals will give an overview of this topic so when you are interviewing with a company, you can tell them that you are familiar with PK/PD and will be able to follow presentations from your colleagues

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Come hear from Rutgers alum Ariella Sasson, PhD to learn how she transitioned from graduate school to BMS and then to AWS where she is the Principal Solutions Architect in Global Healthcare and Life Sciences. She will shed light on how large-scale computational analysis of genomic data is being used in high performance computing and cloud environments.

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Come learn "How to Make Your PhD Work!" The author of "How to Make Your PhD Work," Tom Coughlin, PhD will discuss academic competitiveness, career paths, job readiness, and techniques for deciding what career you should do next. With worksheets and interactive learning, you'll gain valuable insights into the careers and statistics facing PhDs in the current economic climate. 

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