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Dr. Kevan Shokat will deliver the inaugural Morris-Inouye Lecture at 4 PM on April 23^rd in the Main Lecture Hall of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway. His lecture is titled “Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene, K-Ras”. A reception will be held in the Great Hall will follow.

Dr. Shokat’s research focuses on the discovery of small molecule tools and drug candidates that target kinases, GTPases, and helicases. His laboratory utilizes the tools of synthetic organic chemistry, protein engineering, structural biology, biochemistry, and cell biology.

Dr. Shokat is currently an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the UCSF and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Preparing Job Materials: A Co-Mentoring Session with Graduate Students and Postdocs

April 15, 2024

12:00-2:00pm ET

The Hatchery Innovation Studio at Alexander Library (169 College Ave., New Brunswick)

Sign up to attend by April 10

Applying for jobs can be an intimidating, time-consuming, and uncertain experience. This co-mentoring work session is designed to bring together graduate students and postdocs to share wisdom, ideas, and feedback with one another on job application materials for both academic and non-academic positions.

In an interactive, roundtable format, participants will both provide feedback on peers’ documents and receivefeedback on their own. Please bring 3 copies of one job application material (i.e., CV, teaching statement, diversity statement) on which you’d like to receive feedback from peers!

To attend this event, please sign up by April 10. Lunch will be provided!

Questions? Please contact Briana Bivens (briana.bivens@rutgers.edu), Janet Alder (janet.alder@rutgers.edu), and Itzamarie Chévere-Torres (ict@oq.rutgers.edu).

~This event is hosted and supported by the School of Graduate Studies, the Rutgers Health Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and the Office of Postdoctoral Advancement and emerged from the ideation and advocacy of the SGS DEI Graduate Student Advisory Committee.~

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Take your manuscript figures to the next level! Join us for a free workshop on creating better publication quality figures in BioRender. In this webinar, learn actionable tips and techniques for designing figures that will impress your manuscript reviewers. 

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Colgate-Palmolive provides consumer products globally and employs PhD level scientists in many roles.  Come meet those employees and learn how they have applied the various research skills learned in graduate school and postdocs to the consumer industry and tour the facility and labs. 

IN PERSON ONLY 909 River Road, Piscataway, NJ

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As a global leader in R&D genomics services, Azenta (formerly Genewiz) leads the way in providing superior data quality with unparalleled technical support to enable researchers. A full-service provider, Azenta provides high throughput/next generation sequencing, Sanger DNA sequencing, gene synthesis, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and GLP regulatory services. Visit their location in person to more about the company, hear from PhD level employees who hold various positions at Azenta and tour the labs to see the company in action!

IN PERSON ONLY 111 Corporate Blvd, South Plainfield NJ

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Frank Malinoski, MD/PhD has over 30 years of executive experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, including work on numerous vaccines and immunotherapy products. He has an extensive background in the fields of vaccines, immunology, oncology, infectious disease and other therapeutic areas. He is Chief Medical Officer for EveliQuere Biotechnologies GmbH, and President of TD Consultancy. He was Senior Vice President at Affinivax and also held positions of Chief Medical Officer at Liquidia, Senior Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs at MediImmune, and Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Global Business Development at Wyeth (Pfizer), as well as senior leadership and consulting positions at several other biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Malinoski began his career as a Clinical Investigator and Chief of Viral Biology at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. He received his BA from Colby College, his PhD in microbiology from Rutgers University, and his MD from Albany Medical College. Come hear his perspective working at various companies and his advice on how to approach your own career.