Tag: Faculty Job Myths and Realities

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty I was an undergraduate at Cornell University, first in economics and later switching to biology. Then I went to UC-Berkeley for my PhD where I worked in Michael Freeling’s lab on maize and sorghum comparative genomics. When…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty I graduated from National University of Quilmes, Argentina, with a degree in Biotechnology. I then started my PhD with Dr Rodolfo Sánchez at IFEVA (Institute for Research in Physiology and Ecology), School of Agronomy, University…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty My academic path was not always straight forward. 15 years ago, I read in a magazine that doing bioinformatics will be the job of the future (which it is now!), and I decided to enroll in bioinformatics at the University of…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty     I did my undergraduate at Barnard College, it’s the Women's College at Columbia University in New York City. New York City is not the first place you would expect to fall in love with Plant Science, but I ended…

Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty    I grew up on the Iowa/Illinois border in the heart of the corn belt.  Despite being surround by the golden waves of grain, I did not start working on plants until later in my career. My undergraduate degree was in Biomedical Engineering…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty Childhood & schooling: countryside in Central Eastern Finland. Undergrad: Biological Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK (2003-2006). PhD with Julian Hibberd, University of Cambridge, UK (2006-2010). Two years…

About you Hi All, If you are more of a 140-character type like me, the summary of the interview below is “There is nothing magical about being a faculty in academia. Even a very ordinary person can make it, provided that he is surrounded by great colleagues and tries hard enough.” The real question…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty   I was an undergraduate at William and Mary in Virginia and did an honors thesis with fruit flies in George Gilchrist’s lab. I spent two amazing summers as an NSF REU and then summer technician at Rocky Mountain Biological…