Careers and Events
- Other Postdoc Associations
- Grants & Fellowships
- Positions Available
- Conferences & Meetings
- Local Seminars
- Postdoc Society Events
Other Postdoc Associations
Lots of useful information is available from other Postdoc Associations on the web. The website from UC Berkeley is particularly valuable.
- Berkeley Lab Postdoc Web Page
- UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Association
- UCSF Postdoc Association
- Stanford Postdoc Association
- UCLA Postdoc Association
- UC San Diego Postdoc Association
Grants & Fellowships
Many sources of funding are listed on Grantsnet.org. Other useful resources include:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- California Breast Cancer Research Program
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy - Office for Biological & Environmental Research
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- National Science Foundation
- The Wellcome Trust
- Pew Latin American Fellow Program
- American Cancer Society
- Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- International Union Against Cancer
- American Institute for Cancer Research
- Fulbright Scholar Program
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
Positions Available
Anyone interested in a position at Berkeley Lab is encouraged to find out more about the individual laboratories in the Life Sciences Division and contact the laboratory's Principal Investigator directly. The current pay-scales for postdocs in all divisions (including Life Sciences) are listed here. Useful resources for finding positions outside of Berkeley Lab:
- Science
- Nature
- New Scientist
- ...even Craigslist
Also, Berkeley Lab Learning Institute sponsors a Position Announcements Website. This site is a resource for postdocs and graduate student research assistants who work at Berkeley Lab and are looking for scientific positions at organizations outside of the Laboratory. Divisions periodically post position announcements they receive from universities, other national laboratories, and industry on this site. It also includes links to position listings at a variety of institutions.
Meetings & Conferences
Perhaps the best resources for finding a place to spend your hard-earned Fellowship travel budget:
Local Seminars
One of the benefits of working at Berkeley Lab is the exposure to the rich surrounding scientific community.
…and don’t forget our own Postdoc Society Seminar series!
Postdoc Society Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Postdoc Society Seminar Series 2012
The Postdoc Society Seminar series is held on the first Wednesdays of the month at noon - 1 p.m. at 717 Potter Street, room 141. This seminar series is for postdocs and scientists to present any work they might currently be doing, and for new members, work recently done prior to coming to Berkeley Lab. The forum is informal and the talks are quite short (20 min.), so the presentations need not be full conference talks. New researchers should feel welcome to present something, even if it not a complete study. If you are interested in presenting please email Zoltan Metlagel.
Joint Biosciences Postdoc Retreat
Discussions are underway about organizing a Joint Biosciences Postdoc Retreat at LBNL. This retreat will include researchers from the Biosciences Area divisions: Earth Sciences (Ecology Dept.), Physical Biosciences, Genomics, and Life Sciences. If you like to get involved or would like to get more information about this exciting event, please contact Dana Ghanem.
Host Division Seminar Speakers
The Postdoc Society is hosting two Division Seminar speakers in Spring 2012:
- David C. Lyden, Ph.D., M.D., of the Weill Cornell Medical College, who speaks on "Melanoma Exosomes Educate Bone Marrow Progenitor Cells toward a Pro-metastatic Phenotype through MET" on April 24.
- Ann Chambers, of the Ph.D. London Regional Cancer Program, London, Ontario, Canada, who speaks on "Tumor Metastasis and Dormancy" on May 15.
Both seminars are held at 4 p.m. at 717 Potter Street, room 141. For information, or to meet the speaker, contact Dana Ghanem.
PAST EVENTS
Postdoc Society Elections
DATE: 2011
Dana Ghanem has been elected as president of the Postdoc Society and Puey Ounjai has been elected as vice-president.
7th Annual Summer Picnic 2011
DATE: September 9, noon - 5 p.m.
The Postdoc Society hosted a Summer Picnic at Tilden Park, Laurel site, on Friday, September 9. All Life Sciences Division members were invited to attend and enjoyed (lots of) great food and fun activities, including croquet, volleyball and frisbee.
Life Sciences Division Annual Retreat 2010
DATE: September 23
The Life Sciences Division hosted the Annual Life Sciences Division Scientific Retreat on Thursday, September 23, at the Joaquin Miller Community Center in Oakland, CA. The retreat program, co-organized by the Postdoc Society President, was themed "Integration." The purpose of the retreat was to foster collaborations among the different groups and departments. As in the past, the program took place over the course of a single day, this year broken down into four 75 minute blocks - one for each department - allowing each department to describe their work to the other division members. Each block included a 15 minute departmental overview by the Department Head, followed by three classroom style talks by department members. The very succesful program included classroom style presentations, poster sessions and concluded with a reception.
6th Annual Summer Picnic 2010
DATE: July 2, 12:30 - 5 p.m.
The Postdoc Society hosted a Summer Picnic at Tilden Park, Lakeview site, on Friday, July 2. All Life Sciences Division members were invited to attend and enjoyed great food and fun activities.
Postdoc Society Elections
DATE: December 2009
Curt Hines has been elected as president of the Postdoc Society for 2010 and Won Jae Lee has been elected as vice-president.
5th Annual Summer Picnic 2009
DATE: July 24, 12:30 - 5 p.m.
The Postdoc Society hosted a successful 5th Annual Summer Picnic on July 24 in Tilden Park, Laurel site. All Division members were invited to attend this fun afternoon with lots of free food, drinks and fun activities. A flyer of the event can be found here.
Life Sciences Division Annual Retreat 2009
DATE: September 11, 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
The Life Sciences Division hosted the Annual Life Sciences Division Scientific Retreat on Friday, September 11 at the Joaquin Miller Community Center in Oakland, CA. The Retreat had a similar format as last year, with the fundamental element of the all day program being a poster session and and platform presentations.
Life Sciences Division Annual Retreat 2008
DATE: September 19, 2008
The Life Sciences Division held a Scientific Retreat on September 19, 2008 at the Joaquin Miller Community Center in Oakland, CA. The program committee, consisting of Postdoc Society Co-Presidents Kelly Trego and Aris Polyzos of the Cooper and Marchetti labs respectively, and Mina Bissell, created an exciting program that attracted many members’ participation and lead to the success of this retreat.
A fundamental element of the program was the participation by postdocs and scientists in a lunchtime poster session, as well as in several 15 minute platform presentations. The program committee invited all Life Sciences Division postdocs and scientists to submit an abstract; More than 50 researchers took advantage of the opportunity to share their work with the Division. The goal was for the presentations to be accessible to the full breadth of scientists within the Division, since this would maximize everyone's appreciation of their colleagues' work and potentially kindle interesting new collaborations.
Abstracts selected for talks featured both postdocs and scientists, were most lucid and compelling, and were chosen to reflect the diversity of research within the division. Most speakers were selected based on submitted abstracts but the program also featured invited speakers from the Division, UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
Postdoc Society Elections
DATE: June 2008
Kelly Short-Trego and Aris Polyzos have been elected as co-presidents of the LSD Postdoc Society for 2008-2009!
Career Workshop
In November 2006 the Postdoc Society hosted a Career Workshop by Dr. Manfred Zorn, Program Director in the Biology Directorate at US National Science Foundation. Click here to view the slides from Dr. Zorn's presentation. A recording of this seminar is available on DVD and can be borrowed from Curt Hines.
