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. July 24, 2008 \| 4:00-5:00pm \| Minot Room, Countway Library, 5th Floor July's speaker is Ken Field, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Cell Biology/Biochemistry Program, Bucknell University Ken received his PhD from Cornell University and is currently an Assistant Professor at the top-ranked liberal arts instution - Bucknell University. His research investigates Farnesyltransferase inhibitor effects on lymphoid cancers and immune function. Ken will discuss his career trajectory and what a career at a liberal arts college is like including his teaching load and how to engage undergraduate students in biomedical research to maintain an active lab.	Check Out Our 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!
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. July 31, 2008 \| 7:00pm \| Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad This month's featured film is "Lars and the Real Girl" Ryan Gosling plays the title character in this oddball comedy about a delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll over the Internet -- and then falls in love with her. When the besotted young man starts telling people that the doll is his girlfriend, his brother and sister-in-law decide it's time to intervene in this film co-starring Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. [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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