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The Career Path
Seminar Series is an opportunity for students to learn about
novel careers in biological sciences and to make meaningful
contacts with
professionals in biotechnology, medicine, business, law, and
education. This
student-organized event series is directed both towards students
in their early
graduate education looking for direction in their career as
well as senior
students and post-docs looking more seriously at the job market.
Information on the current
speakers is listed on the Sackler Graduate Student
Council website.
Some of our past esteemed speakers and their topics are listed
below.
Mark Osborne, Ph.D.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Knowledge Management
Senior Scientist
www.millennium.com
Dr. Osborne presented a dynamic seminar highlighting his career
path, which has taken him from an industrial post-doc at Hoffmann-LaRoche
in Nutley, NJ to Genome Therapeutics Corporation, a small
biotechnology company in Waltham, MA, to a bioinformatics
position at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. He also presented
some career paths of his colleagues in bioinformatics to give
the audience a flavor of the diversity of paths that scientists
can take. Finally, he presented some of the current problems
in bioinformatics, and the type of bioinformatics background
needed to solve them.
Tod Woolf, Ph.D.
Sequitur, Inc.
President and Founder
www.sequiturinc.com
Dr. Woolf presented two engaging seminars in this series.
His first talk focused on his experience in entrepreneurship,
highlighting both the positive and negative aspects of starting
and running your own biotechnology company. He spoke of his
interesting career path which brought him to his success in
running his own business. His second talk focused on how to
give a memorable job talk during the interview process.
Natalie Jacobs Munn, Ph.D.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional
High School
High School Teacher
www.mvrhs.org
Dr. Munn gave us a fresh look at a career in education. She
decided to use her Ph.D. degree to enlighten the high school
students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School about
the exciting study of chemistry and biology. She gave us fascinating
information about the rewards of teaching to younger students,
and informed us of how Ph.D. students could enter the secondary
education field.
Anil Goyal, Ph.D.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Senior Manager
Business Development for Research & Technology
www.millennium.com
Dr. Goyal presented a seminar about new careers in the business
of biotechnology. The industrial biotechnology field has provided
enormous opportunity for scientists to use their basic knowledge
in the biology to help advance cutting-edge research. The
business in biotechnology is extremely diverse, involving
everything from technology transfer to patent law to finance.
He gave a great deal of information about the paths that a
student coming out of graduate school could take to enter
the biotechnology business.
Daniel Eustace, Ph.D.
Polaroid Corporation and American
Chemical Society Career Consultant
www.acs.org
www.polaroid.com
Dr. Eustace is a certified Career Consultant with the ACS
who has been to dozens of national meetings educating recent
graduates about how to pursue their goals in science. He presented
information on how answer questions in interviews for jobs,
how to generate an excellent resume/CV to get noticed by recruiters,
and how to make a positive impression on the hiring party
during the interview process. He generously provided a number
of booklets from the ACS giving detailed written information
about all of the career topics that he presented. |
