HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

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On behalf of the staff of the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows, 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.

Check Out the Wiki The new postdoc wiki is a collaborative website for postdocs to add, maintain, and edit content of interest to the postdoc community. It is a great venue for postdocs to make connections, share information, post jobs and events, and find out about research techniques and collaborators. This is your space - so edit away! Open to any postdocs with an eCommons ID. Check out the Wiki HERE	Science Careers Online 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.
Career Discussion Hour Come join other HMS postdocs for beer, soda and snacks at our monthly series featuring guest speakers highlighting a variety of career options. This is an informal discussion to offer insights into non-traditional careers and careers beyond the bench. May 15, 2008 \| 4:00-5:00pm \| Minot Room, Countway Library, 5th Floor May's speaker is Birgit Schoeberl, PhD - Director, Network Biology [www.merrimackpharma.com] Birgit Schoeberl is a Director of Research at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. Together with Dr. Ulrik Nielsen, she helped formulate Merrimack's research and development platform, Network Biology. She is currently leading the MM-121 project team. MM-121 is Merrimack’s first therapeutic that originated from the Network Biology platform. Dr. Schoeberl received an M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, a Ph.D. degree from the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany and was a post-doctoral fellow with Douglas Lauffenburger and Peter Sorger at MIT.	Lab Management Essentials: PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR SCIENTISTS! with Stan Portny author of Project Management for Dummies and contributor for the HHMI/BWF Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty May 21, 2008 \| 3:00-5:00pm \| Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad Wonder what Project Management is and why in the world do you need to develop this skill? Will PM help you in a career beyond the bench? Does this skill keep getting mentioned in your job search? Find out more below and then come hear from the expert himself! Check out the chapter on project managment in the HHMI/BWF guide here: Click HERE to view PDF in new window A great ScienceCareers.org article on project management and why it's important in biomedical research! Click HERE to view article in new window
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. May 29, 2008 \| 7:00pm \| Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad This month's featured film is "JUNO" Facing an unplanned pregnancy, teenage Juno (Ellen Page) devises a plan to locate the proverbial perfect parents to adopt her baby. But the seemingly ideal couple Juno chooses still has some growing up to do. Now, everyone in Juno's world must do a little soul-searching. Michael Cera co-stars while Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner play the pair of affluent yuppies anxious for a child in this offbeat coming-of-age comedy, which won the 2008 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. [PG-13]	NPA Affiliate Membership 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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