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Dear colleagues:
Maddy Parsons from Kings College London and I are co-chairing a session at the ASCB meeting in San Diego next week on core facility careers
Please see details below
We hope you can join us!
Please share with colleagues who will be attending the conference
Thanks,
Josh
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Title: Careers in Science: Academic Core Facilities
When: Monday, December 10th, 2018, 9:00-9:50am
Where: Theater 3, Learning Center
Supported by Nikon Instruments, Inc.
Speakers:
Josh Rappoport, Northwestern University
Maddy Parsons, King's College London
Caroline Hookway, Allen Institute
Ben Abrams, UC Santa Cruz
Core facilities are centralized technology platforms that maintain and support equipment (such as microscopes, FACS, mass spec and genomics instruments) and provide specialized services and expertise. A core facility career provides an exciting and interesting option for scientists wanting to remain in the lab without embarking on the academic tenure-track route. Careers in core facilities are different from those in a research lab; they are essential service centers for the research community, providing broad access to complex, expensive equipment. This session provides an overview of how core facilities work, roles available within them for scientists at every level, and how to make yourself competitive for these positions. Four short talks covering different aspects of core facilities will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Outcomes:
1. Learn what core facilities do and how they can help researchers.
2. Understand what it means to be part of a core facility operating team.
3. Learn what skills you need/will gain as part of a core facility team.
4. Know how to start a career in core facilities and the pathway for career advancement.
Target audience: graduate students, postdocs, technicians, and research faculty
Joshua Z. Rappoport PhD
Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) and Nikon Imaging Center (NIC)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
303 E. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503-4140
http://cam.facilities.northwestern.edu/http://nic.feinberg.northwestern.edu/
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