UPCOMING EVENT:
Biotech Industry Career Panel
(open to graduate students in the biological sciences at UW-Madison)
Thursday, May 9th, 4pm
University of Wisconsin-Madison Genetics Biotech Auditorium
We are very proud to announce 8 panelists from a range of local biotech companies:
CDI (technologies including vectors and cell lines)
Gilson (technologies including pipetors, chromatography and protein purification systems)
Lucigen (technologies including cloning, vectors and PCR)
Mirus Bio (technologies including transfection systems)
Quintessence Bio (technologies including ribonucleases and other protein-based theraputics)
The general agenda is to introduce the panelists and then open up the floor for questions from current
graduate students regarding careers in biological sciences industry,
the hiring process, requisite skills, etc.
Please bring any questions you have regarding a career in biotech and industry!
Following the panel, there
will be an optional break-out session for CMBers, with pizza, to more informally interact with the panelists.
In order to adequately prepare for this event, we ask that students sign up for this event.
Register here.
If there are any questions or comments, please either comment below or email the CMB Professional Development Committee at ( cmbprodev@gmail.com ).
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
AAAS's career developments planning site. Try it today!
(post by jessica C)
This quick post regards the AAAS career developments planning website. Michelle sent out the link in an email sometime in February, but this is just a quick reminder post in case you missed the link, or were too busy then and haven't made time for this (or lost the email/ address...). CMBer Jessica TeSlaa will do a more in depth post regarding the analyses and resources fostered by the site in a future post; this post regards the careers discernment aspect of the site. Most of us have a general idea of what we'd like as a career, but the website offers a variety of jobs that you might not have previously considered or know much about.
The website features surveys to assess both your interests and current skills set, and then matches these to career paths commonly taken by PhD level scientists. The results are displayed with a percent skills match and a percent interests match.
Holly B., a CMBer who is very good at both planning as well as utilizing the resources available to her, was discussing career discernment today with me via gchat. Knowing that i hadn't used the website, she strongly recommended it:
Based on a sample size of two (Holly and myself), the career path matches are very appropriate and our (self-identified) top career choices were within the top three suggested by the website. The website then has further information regarding careers, events to attend, ways to strengthen your skill set, and even offers more in-depth features like setting goals and how to acquire mentors who will assist you in your chosen career path.
In short, if you have not taken this, it's fast (15-20 minutes is pretty accurate for the assessments), thorough, relatively painless, and free.
This quick post regards the AAAS career developments planning website. Michelle sent out the link in an email sometime in February, but this is just a quick reminder post in case you missed the link, or were too busy then and haven't made time for this (or lost the email/ address...). CMBer Jessica TeSlaa will do a more in depth post regarding the analyses and resources fostered by the site in a future post; this post regards the careers discernment aspect of the site. Most of us have a general idea of what we'd like as a career, but the website offers a variety of jobs that you might not have previously considered or know much about.
The website features surveys to assess both your interests and current skills set, and then matches these to career paths commonly taken by PhD level scientists. The results are displayed with a percent skills match and a percent interests match.
Holly B., a CMBer who is very good at both planning as well as utilizing the resources available to her, was discussing career discernment today with me via gchat. Knowing that i hadn't used the website, she strongly recommended it:
Holly: you should take it, it's pretty interesting
jessica: (it's like tarot cards, what if i don't like what it tells me?!)
Holly: there's a section for what you want and a section for what you should do
jessica: did it take you long?
Holly: i think 15min-ish
jessica: oh
Based on a sample size of two (Holly and myself), the career path matches are very appropriate and our (self-identified) top career choices were within the top three suggested by the website. The website then has further information regarding careers, events to attend, ways to strengthen your skill set, and even offers more in-depth features like setting goals and how to acquire mentors who will assist you in your chosen career path.
In short, if you have not taken this, it's fast (15-20 minutes is pretty accurate for the assessments), thorough, relatively painless, and free.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
updates inquiry
A recent inquiry to Lab Badger regarded updates, and how to be notified when the CMB CMB (CMB^2? 2XCMB?) is updated.
As a general note, the CMB ProDev committee will try to update this blog at least monthly, particularly with news regarding any upcoming seminars and other events. For these events, we will probably include a link to the specific post in any notifying emails.
However, there are many ways to keep up with blogs (and various other online publications).
>bookmark it or save a link to the site and check your bookmarks frequently. Like, you know, while you're taking a 5 minute break from research to check your favorite webcomics (PhD Comics, XKCD.com, Dinosaur comics, etc).
>RSS feeds. In brief, these are usually an online listing of websites, specified by the user, that is updated as the websites update. These will either notify the user (via email or mobile device), or just list sites that have recently updated for the user to then follow up on their own.
Google Reader seems to be the most common/popular out of the 5-ish people surveyed, but is (unfortunately) being retired as of July 1st. Another commonly used free RSS feed is feedly , and CMBer Bob mentioned that he uses the flipboard app on his mobile device.
Does anyone else have a particular RSS feed they like to use, or another way of keeping up with online publications?
As a general note, the CMB ProDev committee will try to update this blog at least monthly, particularly with news regarding any upcoming seminars and other events. For these events, we will probably include a link to the specific post in any notifying emails.
However, there are many ways to keep up with blogs (and various other online publications).
>bookmark it or save a link to the site and check your bookmarks frequently. Like, you know, while you're taking a 5 minute break from research to check your favorite webcomics (PhD Comics, XKCD.com, Dinosaur comics, etc).
>RSS feeds. In brief, these are usually an online listing of websites, specified by the user, that is updated as the websites update. These will either notify the user (via email or mobile device), or just list sites that have recently updated for the user to then follow up on their own.
Google Reader seems to be the most common/popular out of the 5-ish people surveyed, but is (unfortunately) being retired as of July 1st. Another commonly used free RSS feed is feedly , and CMBer Bob mentioned that he uses the flipboard app on his mobile device.
Does anyone else have a particular RSS feed they like to use, or another way of keeping up with online publications?
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
3/18/13 Planning Meeting
3/18/13 PDC meeting notes
-In Attendence: Emily, Bob, Viswa, Indro, Jessica C, Jessica T, Adam, Lily. Rup couldn't make it.
-Decided that upcoming events would be a series of smaller events spread out over a few months with a few speakers at each of them (April, May, June, July?), a grad student leads the discussion with the speaker, send out an article in advance, students come prepared for the discussion, similar to the DELTA brown bag formats
-Funding available before the end of July 2013 if needed to bring in outside speakers
-Keep events focused for CMB, maybe have a large talk at first for anyone, and then a follow up focused discussion with only CMB students to have smaller more interested groups, facilitate networking opportunities
-Possibly have sign ups, registration for event or some way to commit to an event so we know how many people to expect and those who attend will be more prepared/involved
-Split up committee into groups for each event based on topic, before our next meeting get ideas for speakers, resources, and timeline.
the work teams will be as follows for the upcoming events
-Industry: Adam, Jessica C, Indro, Bob, Viswa; proposed first event at the end of April
-Teaching: Jessica T, Emily, Lily
-Private Research Institutes: Bob, Viswa, Jessica T
-Outreach/science writing: Jessica T, Jessica C
-Law/consulting/business intelligence: Adam, Viswa
-Clinical directors/fellowships: Lily
-postdocs outside of the US: Jessica C
- Professional networking online (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc): Adam
-Jessica C and Jessica T will start a blog to post resources before the event and to archive things after events
-Viswa will take summarizing notes after each event to distribute and share with others
-In Attendence: Emily, Bob, Viswa, Indro, Jessica C, Jessica T, Adam, Lily. Rup couldn't make it.
-Decided that upcoming events would be a series of smaller events spread out over a few months with a few speakers at each of them (April, May, June, July?), a grad student leads the discussion with the speaker, send out an article in advance, students come prepared for the discussion, similar to the DELTA brown bag formats
-Funding available before the end of July 2013 if needed to bring in outside speakers
-Keep events focused for CMB, maybe have a large talk at first for anyone, and then a follow up focused discussion with only CMB students to have smaller more interested groups, facilitate networking opportunities
-Possibly have sign ups, registration for event or some way to commit to an event so we know how many people to expect and those who attend will be more prepared/involved
-Split up committee into groups for each event based on topic, before our next meeting get ideas for speakers, resources, and timeline.
the work teams will be as follows for the upcoming events
-Industry: Adam, Jessica C, Indro, Bob, Viswa; proposed first event at the end of April
-Teaching: Jessica T, Emily, Lily
-Private Research Institutes: Bob, Viswa, Jessica T
-Outreach/science writing: Jessica T, Jessica C
-Law/consulting/business intelligence: Adam, Viswa
-Clinical directors/fellowships: Lily
-postdocs outside of the US: Jessica C
- Professional networking online (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc): Adam
-Jessica C and Jessica T will start a blog to post resources before the event and to archive things after events
-Viswa will take summarizing notes after each event to distribute and share with others
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