Get the Ball Rolling! Applying and Interviewing for Careers in Industry
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Guest post by Guillaume Beaudoin, Scientist, Conagen Inc.
About one year has gone by since I had begun seriously looking for a job to end my postdoctoral experience at the University of Florida. I had read all the doom and gloom: how the ratio of the number of faculty positions to PhDs is forever…
A new approach to graduate professional development; lessons learned from a leadership retreat
Blog, Careers - BlogIf you had 48 free hours, what are the odds you’d spend them at a leadership retreat? Prior to my own experience I would have said “not likely”. After all, I’m a second-year graduate student with coursework, experiments, and TA responsibilities clamoring for my time. I’m also a member of the…
Informational Interview with Professor David Parrott, Westminster University (PUI)
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Bret Hart, Conviron Scholar
I interviewed Dr. David Parrott, Ph.D. He is currently at Westminster University, but earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science at Utah State University after a B.S. in Botany and an M.A. in Biology from Humboldt State University. He is focused on teaching undergraduates at…
Informational Interview with Prof. Christopher Jones, Moravian College (PUI)
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Christopher Sorich, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Christopher Jones is professor and chair of the Biology department at Moravian College located in Bethlehem, PA. He is interested in many aspects of molecular genetics, but his research focuses primarily on the genetics of behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila…
Informational Interview with Prof. Ben DeRidder, Grinnell College (PUI)
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Tim Burnette, Conviron Scholar
Informational interview with Dr. Shouling Xu, Director of the mass spectrometry facility at Carnegie Institution of Science
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Yanniv Dorone, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Shouling Xu is a mass spectrometrist and a biologist in the Department of Plant Biology at Carnegie Institution of Science. She obtained her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in Joe Kieber’s lab. After this, she did a postdoc…
Informational Interview with Dr. Mary Williams, Features Editor, The Plant Cell
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Catherine Freed, Conviron Scholar
Hello everyone! I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mary Williams. Mary is a features editor of Teaching Tools in Plant Biology for Plant Cell as well as a Plantae community manager. She got her PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Rockfeller University…
Informal Interview with Dr. Amanda Waters, Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jaclyn Noshay, Conviron Scholar
Interviewer: Jaclyn Noshay
Interviewee: Dr. Amanda Waters
Date: November 7, 2018
Dr. Amanda Waters is currently a Crop Bioinformatician in the Agro-Discovery team of PepsiCo. After beginning her undergraduate degree as a pre-med biology student, she began…
Informational Interview with Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, Regulatory Affairs Pipeline Strategy Manager, Insect Control and Genome Editing at Bayer
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Jonathan Lombardino, Conviron Scholar
Perhaps for some of you the looming prospect of where your career as a research scientist will take you has been a daunting and stressful thought-process. Lucky for us, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Miguel Vega-Sanchez, a scientist whose diverse career path…