Charting Your Course

2020 Dec 11

Dissertation Defense: Kameron Clayton [SHBT]

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom - Contact for Details

Corticothalamic circuits for active listening

Advisor: Daniel Polley

Program: Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

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"

2020 Oct 13

Dissertation Defense - Olivia Murton (SHBT)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

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Health monitoring with voice analysis: acoustic correlates of heart failure, irregular pitch periods, and dysphonia

Advisor: Daryush Mehta
Program: Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

2020 Oct 15

[Career Navigator Workshop] Applying to Medical School (Dr. Temperance Rowell - HMS Curriculum Fellows Program & HMS Medical Students)

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Zoom - Register for Details

Join HMS MD students for a series of lightly structured panel discussions with time for Q&A from the audience about Applying to Medical School. This PGE PDD will be broken into 3 session discussions with short breaks in between. These sessions will including discussions on (1) crafting personal statements, (2) the medical school application, and (3) medical school interviews.

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2021 Apr 08

[CANCELED] [Career Navigator Workshop] Backward Career Design: Using the Reality of Data and Outcomes to Plan Ahead

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Zoom - Register for Details

Due to a speaker conflict, this event has been canceled.

 

The use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) have been widely promoted to support graduate student professional development. IDPs are structured frameworks to consider short-term and long-term career plans, laying a foundation for meaningful goal-setting.   This workshop will introduce trainees to knowledge and skills to inform IDP discussions.  It is open to all trainees, including master's and doctoral students.

This workshop is designed to enhance...

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2020 Oct 07

Dissertation Defense - Manav Gupta (BBS)

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom - Contact for Details

Wednesday October 7th 2:00PM

Advisor: Carla Kim
Program: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

2020 Sep 18

Dissertation Defense - Carlos Donado (Immunology)

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Zoom - Contact for Details

Friday, September 18th 1:00PM

A Two-Cell Model for IL-1β Release Mediated by Death-Receptor Signaling

Advisor: Michael Brenner
Program: Immunology

2020 Sep 02

Dissertation Defense - Michael Levine (Biophysics)

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Zoom - Contact for Details

"Characterization and Mitigation of Bias in Parametric Mapping of Reward-Induced Dopamine Release using Simultaneous Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

presented by

Michael A. Levine

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

1:30 p.m.

Advisor:  Dr. Ciprian Catana

2020 Oct 29

[Career Navigator Workshop] Meet the Individual Development Plan (IDP): What, How and Why (Dr. Jim Gould - HMS/HSDM Office of Post-Doctoral Fellows)

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Zoom - TBA

The Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a mentoring tool that links research goals with career development and progress towards independence. It is meant to foster an ongoing and recurring discussion that involves evaluation, goal setting and feedback with input from both postdoc and faculty mentor.  The NIH encourages trainees to make Individualized Development Plans to help them prepare for academic and nonacademic careers. This interactive workshop unpacks the IDP framework while helping students to prepare a working draft of the IDP that addresses research, professional...

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2020 Oct 01

[Career Navigator Workshop] Making the Most of Your Virtual Rotations (Dr. Taralyn Tan - HMS Department of Neurobiology, Dr. Jason Heustis - HMS Program in Graduate Education)

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Zoom - TBA

PART 1: Understanding the Value of Rotations and Setting Your Goals

A primary goal of the first year of graduate school is to identify a dissertation laboratory. Lab rotations are a major mechanism to guide students in this process. Students are currently having to navigate rotations that are partially or wholly virtual due to COVID-19 and restrictions on in-person laboratory activities. This interactive workshop will provide students strategies to maximally leverage both in-person and virtual lab rotation experiences to identify a training environment for...

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