Professional Development

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Making your LinkedIn profile highly visible and building your brand is essential for expanding your network and helping you get hired. However, most of us struggle with what to include in our LinkedIn profile. Penny Pearl of 2Actify is an expert at helping scientists articulate their unique value and create a brand that we can use for marketing ourselves as researchers who have transferable skills. Attend this workshop to learn best practices as to how to create the different sections of your LinkedIn profile improve your chances of getting noticed by those who matter!

 

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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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Vidhya Rangaraju is a faculty at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and started her group in 2020. She will share how she has successfully navigated the academic path to establish herself as a rising star. She will present her research from 12-1pm and then give her career path advice from 1-2pm. Dr. Rangaraju received her PhD at Weill Cornell Medicine and then was an EMBO and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Vincent du Vigneaud Award of Excellence, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Award, the MPIBR Scientific Discovery of the Year Award, the SfN Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, the CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award, the SfN Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award, and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

Zoom and In-person options. Lunch will be served for those who attend in-person

 

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Interested in submitting an NIH F-Series Fellowship application or getting ready to write your thesis proposal? This is a great workshop for graduate students and postdocs to get your started on your F31, F32, F30 or F99/K00 applications. This is also a good way to start to prepare for your propositional qualifying exam. The workshop will focus on the Specific Aims section.

Zoom and In-person options. Lunch will be served for those who attend in-person

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Learn about research at Bristol-Myers Squibb and how they perform hit identification, lead optimization, ADME profiling, in vitro drug safety assessment and biomarker profiling to generate novel chemical matter and drive iterative lead optimization.  Then tour the facility at BMS in Lawrenceville where this research is taking place and meet the scientists who are involved in the studies.  Bristol-Myers Squibb is a differentiated company, led by their unique BioPharma strategy that leverages the reach and resources of a major pharma company paired with the entrepreneurial spirit and agility of a biotech firm.

 

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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.

March 17 and 18 from 9am-5pm

IN PERSON ONLY 675 Hoes Lane West, RWJMS Research Tower Room V12, Piscataway

Lunch will be served

 

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Dive deeper into advanced design features for saving time and improving your design skills.  We’ll also showcase the newly-released features, like Graph and PowerPoint Add-in. Having top quality images in your manuscripts and presentations helps with getting your research noticed and helping you get your next position! The Premium version of the BioRender graphics and illustration software is now available at a discounted rate for all Rutgers faculty, staff, students and affiliates. It is now listed on the Office of Information Technology software portal (link) .

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This free workshop will be presented by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) of New Jersey to educate graduate students and postdocs on student loans, budgeting, cash flow, debt, and taxes. We know that living on a grad student stipend or postdoc salary can be challenging and many of you also have families to support. The skills you gain in this workshop will help you navigate your financial situation and plan for your future.

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Come hear from Brandon Higgs, PhD VP, Global Head of Translational Data Science at Genmab about how he uses AI and advanced analytics to support biomarker strategies for clinical programs. He will share advice for current trainees about careers in data science and the future of drug discovery using AI. Prior to joining Genmab, Dr. Higgs was Head of Translational Bioinformatics at Immunocore, where he led discovery of biomarkers for TCR-based bispecific treatments in oncology. Before that, he developed the Translational Bioinformatics function at MedImmune/AstraZeneca supporting precision medicine strategies for drug programs in autoimmunity, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and oncology. He also worked for the government deriving modeling approaches for the CDC and DoD for biothreat identification and syndromic surveillance.

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If you are an international student or postdoc and are wondering how to apply for jobs in the US, you should join us to hear Michael Goldstein who is an immigration lawyer. He will give a presentation about applying for H-1B visas, green cards, OPT and J1 visas as well as answer general questions about the processes.