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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Stem Cell Biology: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York NY 10029 USA

Assistant, Associate and/or Professor Level Faculty

University of Maryland
Baltimore MD 21201 USA

Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

UT Health Science Center
San Antonio TX 78229 USA

Post-doctoral position

House Ear Institute
Los Angeles CA 90057 USA

Associate Scientist, Compound Screening

Phillip Morris Intl.
Neuchatel CHE

Scientist, Bioinformatics

Phillip Morris Intl.
Neuchatel CHE

Molecular Biologists and Biochemists

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN 55455 USA

Tenure Track Faculty Position at The Whitehead Institute and Department of Biology, MIT

The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA 02142 USA

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Calm in the STORm

Michael Hall has the dubious honor of having worked in the only lab that was ever shut down for recombinant DNA guideline violations. “It was very exciting,” he recalls with a smile. The local TV stations sent crews and the National Institutes of Health conducted a thorough investigation. “I had to write statements about what happened and tell the investigating committee what I...
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Right your Writing

When Judith Swan was a PhD student in molecular and cell biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her research on specialized microtubules in chicken cells went pretty smoothly. But despite expert guidance and advice from her advisor, “when it came time to write, nobody had very much to say,” Swan recalls. Swan was essentially told to write up her research, then was...
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Genome Guru

Tim Hubbard claims he knows nothing about genetics. But he was drawn into the high-stakes world of genomics by a job offer he couldn’t refuse. Hubbard had been working on algorithms for predicting protein structures at the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering in the United Kingdom when he noticed that the Sanger Institute in Hinxton was looking to hire some new bioinformaticists....
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Audrey Dussutour: Insect Traffic Cop

Audrey Dussutour never had a special fondness for ants, but over the last decade, she’s gotten to know them very well—especially their propensity to act as a single organism though hundreds or thousands of individuals may comprise a single colony. “It’s fascinating, because it works exactly opposite to humans—there’s no leader,” she says. Her...
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Considering Consulting?

After working for DuPont (which became DuPont Merck) for 17 years, Bill Schmidt decided to take his act on the road. The company elected to stop developing drug candidates for pain that Schmidt had been working on, based on the belief that no new drug could compete with cheap generic drugs such as morphine and aspirin. (This was four years before Pfizer’s Celebrex and...
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Crossing Over

Talk about a rite of passage: In his first job out of Amherst College in 1980, Douglas Bishop worked as a tech for a scientist who had neither an alarm clock nor a circadian rhythm. David Kurtz at Cold Spring Harbor had a habit of staying awake for 24 hours, sleeping awhile, and then repeating the process. “The approach allowed him to work about 100 hours a week,” says ...
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Talking Yourself Up

Anthony Brown has always been good at pharmaceutical medicine, but recently he's become a pro at being interviewed as well. Just 1 month and two interviews after graduating from St. John's University in Queens, New York with a bachelor's degree in toxicology and chemistry in May 2005, Brown landed a job in the pharmaceutical industry as a quality...
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J. Christopher Love

Growing up, J. Christopher Love never imagined that he’d be exploring the intricacies of the immune system as a career. In high school, he developed theoretical designs for molecules that could act as electrical devices at the MITRE Corporation, a government-sponsored defense technology company in Fairfax County, Va. Love says the project helped him “realize that...
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Master Plans

Sean Carroll’s most flamboyant finding was prompted by an innocent query before a seminar. Carroll had gone down to Duke University to give a talk about his research on the genes and molecules that direct the regular spacing of bristles on a fruit fly leg. There he met up with Fred Nijhout, who had been studying the spots on...
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Rebecca Vega Thurber: The coral doctor

It’s not every day that a biologist’s work makes it on to Comedy Central. But after giving a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about herpes-like viruses in corals, that’s what happened to Rebecca Vega Thurber, then a marine biology postdoc.1 Her findings were mentioned on Stephen...
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Scoring on Sabbaticals

Seven years after landing his first faculty job, and a year after securing tenure, Andrew Hendry earned his first year-long sabbatical, a precious respite from teaching and administrative duties that only comes around a few times in one’s career. Last summer, Hendry, a McGill University evolutionary ecologist who studies speciation dynamics, packed up the...
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Prokaryotic Pioneer

As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College—Harvard's allgirl sister institution—in the 1960s, Susan Gottesman earned pocket money working as a technician in Jim Watson's Harvard lab. "I would hear stories of people going to mixers at Radcliffe and meeting this strange guy who said he was a professor," she laughs. "But in the lab he was perfectly well behaved." And he...
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What Vacation?

Ah summer! It's a time for easy living, a relaxed teaching schedule, perhaps a leisurely sabbatical, some tall cold drinks, and... undergraduate interns. The National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program places about 140 undergrads in biology labs every summer, while the National Institutes of Health invites about 800 undergraduate researchers to work...
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Konrad Hochedlinger

In 1999, Konrad Hochedlinger squeezed into a packed lecture at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna to hear stem cell researcher Rudolf Jaenisch talk about nuclear transfer cloning techniques. Hochedlinger, a biology masters student, knew little about cloning, but he'd been intrigued by the technique ever since scientists cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. "I was too shy" to...
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Friending Pharma

As pharma's pipeline dries out, companies are increasingly reaching out to university researchers—and not just for out-of-the-box licensing deals. Over the past three years, Washington University in St. Louis has seen the numbers of collaborations rise from 46 to 72, while GlaxoSmithKline and Merck have reported plans to acquire as much as 50% and 25%, respectively, of their...
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The Women That Stay

In February 1999, evolutionary biologist Ashleigh Griffin defended her PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh. Then, one month later, she gave birth. For the next three years, she stayed home caring for her daughter while writing up her research "when I could manage that," she says. She was so poor that she was relying on milk tokens from the government just to get by. ...
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Finding New Money

In 1997, Domenico Pratico, a third year University of Pennsylvania postdoc, was seeking funding for his molecular research on brain aging and neurodegeneration. For nearly three years, his lab had worked on developing a specific, sensitive new assay to measure oxidative stress in a patient's brain. The results were promising, but...
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The Economic Stimulus and Science

In early February, the House voted to approve the $787 billion economic recovery package and this was signed into law by President Obama. The bill contains something for everyone including scientists—$10 billion for National Institutes of Health (NIH), $1.3 billion for the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), ...
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Fixing Fraud

In 2007, Steve Erikson, a plant researcher at a large public university in the south, had been working with a PhD student on a project using RNAi to silence endogenous genes and improve the nutritional quality of a particular food crop. Erikson stressed to his student, Adrianne Long (the names have been changed to maintain...
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Retiring from Science

Financial planners hate having to tell their clients that they need to delay retirement. Yet as the global economic meltdown drags on, many researchers in both academia and industry are facing that reality. ...
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