GeneticsCareers Center
Cypress Ballroom 1C
The GeneticsCareers Center is a designated space to discuss scientific careers and professional development. Open concurrently with the exhibits and posters, the GeneticsCareers Center will feature career coaching, job postings, networking, and potentially some on-site interviews. Career Coaching appointments can be scheduled on-site or in advance; coaches will be available to give attendees career advice, provide interview tips, and critique CVs/resumes.
Job Fair
Workshops
Career Coaches
GeneticsCareers.org
Hours
Thursday, July 14: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Friday, July 15: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Saturday, July 16: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Job Fair
Thursday, July 14: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Located near the GeneticsCareers Center, this intimate job fair features hand-selected career scientists representing different industries and career paths available in our field. Come talk one-on-one with representatives who can answer questions about their employer, their experiences, and the various types of positions available. Browse open positions on GeneticsCareers.org and then come talk to representatives from these companies in person:
Don't forget to bring your resume!
GeneticsCareers Workshops
Friday, July 15, 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Nailing the Job Talk
What are departments really looking for in a job talk? This workshop will explore how to structure your presentation, how much detail to include, what level to pitch to, and what other elements to consider.
Speaker
Saturday, July 16, 10:30 am - 11:15 am: Negotiating Job Offers
Congratulations, you got the job! …Now what? From negotiating salaries to agreeing on a startup package, coming to a consensus with a new employer can be complicated. Learn some advice for how to determine what’s fair in the current market.Speakers
Dr. Amy Maddox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(Profile Coming Soon)
Career Coaching
Career Coaching appointments can be scheduled on-site or in advance; coaches will be available to give attendees career advice, provide interview tips, and critique CVs/resumes.
Sign up for a slot with a career coach here:
Thursday, July 14
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Dr. Golden graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1982 and worked as research tech for 2 years at University of Pennsylvania. He went to graduate school at Stony Brook University, then moved to Caltech for his post-doc with Paul Sternberg to learn about C. elegans. His first job was at Frederick Cancer Center in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Golden moved to NIDDK on the NIH campus in Bethesda in late 1999, where he studied meiotic divisions, early embryogenesis, and germ line development. He now models human diseases in C. elegans.
Areas of expertise: Careers in government; bench research; mentoring; choosing a graduate program; tailoring postdocs to future careers
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Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; medical school faculty; department chair/administration; publishing; career options; job search and interview; work-life balance; starting a lab
Thursday, July 14
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Dr. Golden graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1982 and worked as research tech for 2 years at University of Pennsylvania. He went to graduate school at Stony Brook University, then moved to Caltech for his post-doc with Paul Sternberg to learn about C. elegans. His first job was at Frederick Cancer Center in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Golden moved to NIDDK on the NIH campus in Bethesda in late 1999, where he studied meiotic divisions, early embryogenesis, and germ line development. He now models human diseases in C. elegans.
Areas of expertise: Careers in government; bench research; mentoring; choosing a graduate program; tailoring postdocs to future careers
Janna Bednenko started working on ciliated protozoa during her PhD in Dr. Dorothy Shippen's lab at Texas A&M University. Her academic research included discovery of developmental regulation of telomerase in a ciliate Euplotes crassus and characterization of novel factors involved in small RNA-mediated genome rearrangement in Tetrahymena thermophila. Currently, Dr. Bednenko is a Head of Genetics at Tetragenetics, Inc., developing Tetrahymena strains to produce difficult-to-express membrane proteins for drug discovery purposes.
Cassandra Extavour received her BSc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto. Though a Toronto native, her academic life has been international: she obtained her PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and performed postdoctoral work at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete, Greece, and at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, a BBSRC Research Grant allowed her to transition to Research Associate in the Department of Zoology. In 2007 she established her independent laboratory in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University; she was promoted to Full Professor in 2014.
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; faculty at large research institution; mentoring; job search strategies – academia; women in genetics; outreach; networking; diversity and broadening participation; career options
Friday, July 15
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Dr. Gasch completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Stanford University before doing a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/UC Berkeley. She has been a faculty member at UW-Madison for 12 years; her lab's research combines comparative and functional genomics, systems biology, genetics, and molecular biology to study how eukaryotes deal with stress and disease.
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; faculty at large research institution; education; women in genetics; outreach; choosing a graduate program; work-life balance; starting a lab
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; new faculty at minority-serving institution; mentoring; education; outreach; diversity and broadening participation; work-life balance; teaching and research at a primarily undergraduate institution
Friday, July 15
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Dr. De Stasio trained at Brown University, receiving a PhD in molecular biology, and completed a postdoc in genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She undertook her first sabbatical with Bob Horvitz at MIT and her second as a Fulbright Fellow with Peter Swoboda at the Karolinska Institute outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She has been teaching and doing research with C. elegans at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college, since 1992. Her interests include: inclusive pedagogy, science communication, creating new tools and resources for teaching, social justice, & spreading more love and understanding in the world.
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; faculty at primarily undergraduate institution; education; women in genetics; diversity and broadening participation; job search and interview at a primarily undergraduate institution; teaching and research at a primarily undergraduate institution
A Michigan native, Jane Kenney-Hunt earned a BSc from Alma College and a PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis. Before joining the Westminster College faculty in 2011, she performed postdoctoral research at Washington University School of Medicine and the University of South Carolina.
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; new faculty at primarily undergraduate institution; education; teaching and research at a primarily undergraduate institution
Saturday, July 16
10:00 - 11:00 am
Dr. Ables earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. She received a Master's in Biology at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington before completing her PhD at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Ables was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, before joining the faculty at Eastern Carolina University.
Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; new faculty at mid-size university; education; job search strategies – academia; women in genetics; choosing a graduate program; career options; work-life balance; starting a lab
Saturday, July 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. De Stasio trained at Brown University, receiving a PhD in molecular biology, and completed a postdoc in genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She undertook her first sabbatical with Bob Horvitz at MIT and her second as a Fulbright Fellow with Peter Swoboda at the Karolinska Institute outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She has been teaching and doing research with C. elegans at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college, since 1992. Her interests include: inclusive pedagogy, science communication, creating new tools and resources for teaching, social justice, & spreading more love and understanding in the world.
Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; faculty at primarily undergraduate institution; education; women in genetics; diversity and broadening participation; job search and interview at a primarily undergraduate institution; teaching and research at a primarily undergraduate institution
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Areas of expertise: Careers in academia; medical school faculty; department chair/administration; publishing; career options; job search and interview; work-life balance; starting a lab