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.
- 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 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:
...even Craigslist
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.
- Life Sciences and Genomics Divisions Seminars
- UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology Seminars
- UCSF Seminars
…and don’t forget our own Postdoc Society Seminar series!
Postdoc Society Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Seminar Series 2009/2010
The LSD Postdoc Society Seminar series is held the first Wednesdays of the month at noon - 2 p.m., either “on the hill” or at Potter Street. 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 Kelly.
October 7, 2009
Speaker 1: Kurt Hines (Yaswen Lab)
Speaker 2: Jurek Majka (McMurray Lab)
At Potter St. (977-120)
November 4, 2009
Speaker 1: Virginia Spencer (Bissell Lab)
Speaker 2: Weiguo Zhang (Karpen Lab)
At Bldg. 84-318
December 2, 2009
Speaker 1: Torsten Groesser (Cooper Lab)
Speaker 2: Rob Rambo (Tainer Lab)
At Potter St. (977-120)
January 6, 2010
Speaker 1: Doina Ciobanu (Cooper Lab)
Speaker 2: TBD
At Bldg. 84-318
February 3, 2010
Speaker 1: Zhi Hu (Gray Lab)
Speaker 2: Irene Chiolo (Karpen Lab)
At Potter St. (977-120)
March 3, 2010
Speaker 1: Jane Landolin (Karpen Lab)
Speaker 2: Kelly Trego (Cooper Lab)
At Bldg. 84-318
April 7, 2010
Speaker 1: Jing Huang (Gray Lab)
Speaker 2: Cyrus Ghajar (Bissell Lab)
At Potter St. (977-120)
May 5, 2010
Speaker 1: Hunter Richards (Kohwi-Shigematsu Lab)
Speaker 2: Ren Xu (Bissell Lab)
At Bldg. 84-318
June 2, 2010
Speaker 1: Ming Dong (Biggin Lab)
Speaker 2: Nick Vandehey (O'Neil Lab)
At Potter St. (977-120)
RECENT EVENTS
5th Annual Summer Picnic 2009
DATE: July 24, 12:30 - 5 pm
The LSD 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 and directions to the site can be found here.
Life Sciences Division Annual Retreat 2009
DATE: September 11, 8:30 am - 7 pm
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. For inquiries, please contact Ciccina.
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 LSD 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 elected as co-presidents of the LSD Postdoc Society for 2008-2009!
Career Workshop
In November 2006 we 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 Kelly.
