Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Students in the Life Sciences are invited to participate in Life Sciences Careers Day on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the Ebling Symposium Center and in various conference rooms in the Microbial Sciences Building, 1550 Linden Drive. The goal of the Symposium is to provide Ph.D. students and postdocs with perspectives on career choices. Life Sciences Careers Day (LSCD) is financed by the Graduate School and several NIH Training Grants and has been held every other year since 1995 at UW-Madison.
Some students are relatively uninformed about career options other than becoming professors at research institutions. Many have little understanding what it might be like to be a professor at an institution where the focus is almost exclusively on teaching, or to do research in a small or large industrial setting, or to do clinical research, or to work in law or government, or as a science writer, as a grant administrator, a lobbyist, a technical representative, in science outreach, etc. We have invited 12 speakers, each of whom has a degree in the Biological Sciences, to give a 15 minute presentation describing his/her career path and the advantages and drawbacks of their current positions; i.e. what his/her job is and how he/she got there. Additional "break-out" sessions consist of small group discussions in which students have opportunities to ask questions directly to the guest speakers.
Click on "Schedule" for additional information. Background Information about the individual speakers will be available shortly.
Information packets for registrants will be available from 8:30-9:00AM in the foyer outside of the Ebling Symposium Center on the first floor of MSB. Sessions begin at 9:00AM.
Please sign up by clicking on "Register" at the left of this page. There will be no charge for the symposium, and a free box lunch will be provided for each registered participant.
We hope that you will be able to join us on April 25.
Register as soon as possible to assist us in the planning process.
This symposium is generously supported by funds from The Graduate School and the following NIH Training Grants: Molecular Biosciences, Biotechnology, Microbes in Health and Disease, Computational and Informational Biology, Molecular and Environmental Toxicology, Neuroscience, and Biophysics.
Please contact Rick Gourse or Allyson Anding with any comments or questions.