HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

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On behalf of the staff of the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows (OPF), welcome to our website!

Our Mission

The HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows works to enhance the development and experience of the postdoctoral community by recognizing the valuable contributions of postdoctoral scholars, developing a firm foundation on which to build a comprehensive training and career development experience, encouraging individual responsibility, fostering mentoring and cultivating a sense of community.

Through a combination of administrative initiatives and educational activities, the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows actively assists postdoctoral fellows in obtaining the skills necessary to pursue both academic and non-traditional careers in science and beyond. By supplementing the training received in the laboratory with career development guidance and ancillary research skills instruction, the office seeks to maintain the institutional reputation of recruiting and training the best biomedical researchers and scientific leaders of tomorrow.

"Green Card" Informational Session

HIO logo On Tuesday, November 3rd, the Harvard International Office along with Attorney Steve Clark, visited Harvard Medical School and provided postdocs with information concerning permanent resident status in the United States.

Permanent Residency, also referred to as having a green card, is the right to live and work in the United States indefinitely. For more information on the benefits of having a green card, check out the slides from the seminar.

Click HERE for slides from the seminar.

HMS Postdoc Networking Group on LinkedIn

An online professional networking group for biomedical postdoctoral fellows from Harvard Medical School on LinkedIn.com. Alumni and current postdocs are welcome to join! This group provides members the opportunity to see where other postdocs are, what they are doing, and network, network, NETWORK!

Science Careers Online

ScienceAAAS Visit Science Careers Online for advice on jobs, career development, identifying funding sources, and so much more! While you're there, search the most comprehensive career database online today. Science Careers offers diverse job listings for the entire scientific community.

Special Postdoc Workshop: The Academic Job Search

Job Wanted On Friday, September 11th, Johannes Walter, PhD, along with a panel of HMS Faculty, spoke to HMS postdocs about the nuts and bolts of applying for academic jobs.

This informal panel shed light on the often unknown world of search committees and highlighted what makes a candidate stand out amongst a field of qualified candidates.

Click HERE for slides from the workshop.

Check Out the OPF Lending Library

The Postdoc Office has a lending library of career resources for Quad Postdocs!

Stop by the office in Gordon Hall 006 during business hours to check out the titles.

The lending library is available to HMS/HSDM Postdocs who wish to find out more about writing a grant application and navigating the NIH submission process, careers outside of academia, general interviewing skills, types of industry jobs in biotech and pharma, applying for academic positions, CVs/resumes/cover letters, scientific presentation skills, and lab management basics.

Click HERE for a list of titles in our library.

If you don't see a book title you know is a good source of career advice for postdocs and we should make it available, drop us an email to postdoc_office@hms.harvard.edu and we'll add it to the library!

OPF Postdoc Movie Night

Grab a labmate, friend, or date and join us for Postdoc Movie Night! Each month we feature a newly released-to-DVD film across a wide range of popular movie genres. Come, relax, and enjoy some freshly-popped popcorn, beer, and soda.

January 28, 2010 | 7:00pm | Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad

This Month's Featured Film is "Inglourious Basterds"
A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down -- that's if Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter" (Christoph Waltz) doesn't get in the way. Quentin Tarantino directs this World War II-set spaghetti Western {R}.

NPA Affiliate Membership

NPA globe logo As an institutional member of the NPA, the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows is pleased to offer a free affiliate membership to all Quad-based postdocs. This includes a subscription to NPA’s quarterly newsletter (POSTDOCket) and to its periodic e-mail Alerts (E-Alerts) and access to all members-only content on the NPA website. Enrollment as an affiliate member is based on the use of an e-mail address associated with either HMS (“@hms.harvard.edu”) or HSDM (“@hsdm.harvard.edu”).

To enroll, please visit www.nationalpostdoc.org, click on “Membership” => “Join the NPA” => ”Affiliate Member”. Please be certain to choose “Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Office” as your affiliate institution and sign up using your email address at one of the two domains listed above (personal email addresses will not work). If you have any questions regarding the affiliate membership, please email postdoc_office@hms.harvard.edu for more information.

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