Life Sciences Master's Students (HMS)

Vector Engineering Scientist @ Ring Theraputics

November 12, 2020

Company Summary: 

Ring Therapeutics Inc. is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company pioneering a completely novel form of gene therapy  by exploiting a family of naturally occurring commensal viruses to create the first re-dosable and targetable DNA medicines. This  approach enables a powerful new class of tropic, persistent, non-integrating vectors that overcome the immunogenicity, and  limited...

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Learning Objectives for Navigating Research Mentoring Relationships [iBiology Survey]

November 12, 2020

We are looking for input from administratorsfaculty and staff who mentor life science graduate students or are involved in graduate student doctoral training; and input from senior doctoral graduate students and postdocs. All individuals who fall into these categories are encouraged to respond to the survey.

You are invited to provide your input on the skills and knowledge that are most important to...

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Assistant Professor, Biology @ York University

November 12, 2020

The Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science, York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a teaching stream tenure-track position in Biology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream to commence July 1, 2021. The successful candidate will be expected to teach first-year and other undergraduate biology courses and to coordinate and teach courses for a biotechnology graduate diploma program at York University’s new Markham campus. The successful candidate is also expected to support aspects of curriculum delivery and development and provide creative...

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Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biology @ University of California Davis

November 12, 2020

The University of California, Davis invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Teaching position in quantitative biology education. Professors of Teaching are Academic Senate faculty members whose expertise and responsibilities center on undergraduate education and scholarly analysis and improvement of teaching methods. The official title is Lecturer with the Potential for Security of Employment (LPSOE). LPSOEs are eligible for promotion to “Security of Employment,” which is analogous to tenure. The position will reside in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and be affiliated...

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Postdoctoral Position, Visual Circuitry Biology @ University of Maryland

November 12, 2020

The Speer laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park has an opening for a  postdoctoral research fellow to help advance our research in developing visual circuits. We are  investigating activity-dependent molecular mechanisms that regulate the refinement of parallel  retinal pathways to distinct visual centers in the brain. We are currently developing new  research lines using transcriptomic, proteomic, and high-resolution molecular imaging analyses  to examine local protein...

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Writing Tutor @ HMS Office for Graduate Education

November 10, 2020

The Office for Graduate Education is seeking applicants for a new position of Writing Tutor for the remainder of the 2020-2021 academic year. This tutor supports excellence in writing for students across the eight HMS Master’s Programs (https://hms.harvard.edu/education-admissions/graduate-education). Students in these programs range in experience from post-baccalaureate students to students with professional degrees and mid-career...

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Beyond 2 Suitcases [Inside Higher Ed]

November 9, 2020

“What did you pack in the suitcases?” asked the curious 9-year-old. “Why could you not bring more than two suitcases?” asked another. Those were rapid-fire questions thrown my way as I was giving a classroom presentation to 8- and 9-year-old students in an elementary school about immigrants and what the path looks like to citizenship.

Most of us first-generation immigrants, including international trainees who come here for a Ph.D. degree or for postdoctoral training, uproot our whole lives in search of the American dream. At the same time, we constantly navigate a gamut of...

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FAS Science Education Mentoring Undergraduates Certificate Series

The Science Education Office offers a series of Science Mentoring workshops for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are mentoring Harvard undergraduates in the laboratory or field.   Learn more about the mentoring workshop content and certificate series.

2020 Oct 30

Dissertation Defense: Yipei Guo (Biophysics)

10:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

Zoom - Contact for Details

Advisors:  Dr. Ariel Amir and Dr. Michael P. Brenner

"Exploring the effect of interactions on multicellular spatial structures, stability of gene expression and microbial evolution"

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