iJOBS
Event Description
Scientific and strategic consulting is one of the hottest growing career options for PhDs. Come hear a panel of Lumanity employees who are in life science consulting and review a case study to get a feel for if this is the right career choice for you. Being a consultant allows you to use your technical expertise to help biotech and pharma companies with diverse projects and practicing case studies is critical for getting hired in their field.
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iJOBS Seminar: Navigating the Publication Process
Professional Development
Event Description
Get advice on everything from how to select an appropriate journal to best practices in exerimental design, manuscript preparation, and submission to help you get your papers published. The speaker will be Andrea Marat, PhD Senior Scientific and Reviews Editor, Journal of Cell Biology. Andrea did her PhD at McGill University and a postdocs in Berlin. Andrea joined the Rockefeller University Press in 2016 as a Scientific Editor at the Journal of Cell Biology. In addition to handling research manuscripts, Andrea is responsible for all Reviews and Perspectives published in the journal.
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iJOBS Workshop: Effective Mentoring of Undergraduates in Research
Professional Development
Event Description
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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iJOBS Workshop: Genomics Data Carpentry
Professional Development
International Center for Public Health (ICPH)
225 Warren Street
Newark, NJ 07901
Event Description
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.
IN PERSON ONLY
iJOBS Site Visit: NJ Innovation Institute
Professional Development
Event Description
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.
IN PERSON ONLY
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iJOBS Site Visit: NJ Bioscience Center
Professional Development
Event Description
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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iJOBS Virtual Site Visit: Daiichi Sankyo
Professional Development
Event Description
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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iJOBS Site Visit: GenScript
Professional Development
Event Description
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.
IN PERSON ONLY
20 Kingsbridge Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854
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iJOBS Primer: What You Need to Know about PK/PD for a Job in Pharma
Professional Development
Event Description
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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iJOBS and Erdos Institute Seminar: A Bioinformatics Career from Bristol Myers Squib to Amazon Web Services
Professional Development
Event Description
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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