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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.

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Get advice on everything from how to select an appropriate journal to best practices in experimental 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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This workshop is designed for biomedical PhD students and postdoctoral fellows seeking to differentiate themselves in a competitive job market. Participants will learn from Penny Pearl of 2Actify how to strategically build and leverage professional networks, articulate a clear professional brand, and communicate their skills and interests with intention across academic, industry, and nontraditional career paths. The session will cover practical approaches to networking, informational interviews, online presence, and personal branding statements, along with strategies for maintaining authentic, meaningful professional relationships. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to increase visibility, confidence, and impact in their career search.

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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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The seminar delivered by Manisha Sinha, PhD will cover the following core themes that are unique to industry compared to academia and will help you transition to an industry role:

Time as a critical resource; Designing “killer experiments” for go no-go decisions; Planning for efficiency; Cross-functional collaboration; Framing results in the context of program strategy; Working within constrained budgets; Developing a product (not project) mindset; Early-career habits that accelerate impact and advancement in industry settings. Join us to shift your mindset to that of an industry professional!

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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.

IN PERSON ONLY International Center for Public Health (ICPH) auditorium, 225 Warren St, Newark, NJ 

Lunch will be served

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This workshop will help PhD students and postdocs learn the professionalism behaviors needed to succeed in both academic settings and industry roles. Participants will explore expectations around communication, workplace etiquette, teamwork, accountability, and ethical conduct. The session will also address navigating feedback, understanding organizational culture, and presenting oneself professionally in a work setting. Through discussion and practical examples, attendees will gain tools to build credibility, foster respectful working relationships, and confidently transition between academic and industry settings.

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Are you curious about what it is like to work at a biotech start up or even become a future founder of one?  Come to hear from Viraj Mane, PhD who is himself an entrepreneur to learn how and why startups can build and iterate in ways established companies can't or won't. Start ups are more likely to hire fresh PhDs without industry experience so they are a great place to start your career. Dr. Mane will share what a lean start up is, how to do customer discovery to determine market needs, how to build in clarity, and how to do things that don’t scale.