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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Claire Ainsworth, on 21 June 2011
If I shut my eyes, I can still picture the young boy dressed as a gravedigger. He’s taking centre-stage, flourishing a spade and cheerily telling his audience that if they ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 8 June 2011
We look back on our collection of alternative career stories, published in 2010 and 2011Posted by Michael Szego, on 1 June 2011
Four and a half years ago I was introduced to the field of clinical ethics while nearing the end of my Doctorate in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. ...Posted by kara_cerveny, on 24 May 2011
Although I’m no longer working at the bench, I still think of myself as a scientist. During grad school and much of my post-doc, I assumed that I would follow ...Posted by Michael Belliveau, on 22 May 2011
I am now a Patent Attorney at Clark & Elbing, a Boston boutique patent law firm specializing in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. I have been at Clark & Elbing since 1998, ...Posted by Vivian Siegel, on 19 May 2011
I was a PhD student with Peter Walter, studying protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum. I did very well as a student, publishing six research papers during that time. After ...Posted by sarahgibb, on 15 February 2011
During the first year of my PhD, I undertook a small rotation project in the lab of Dr Kim Dale, doing some work with the chick embryo. I did this ...Posted by Nicole Husain, on 15 February 2011
When Eva approached me about contributing to this series about how one goes from a PhD in developmental biology and ends up in a non traditional academic career path, I ...Posted by Jane Alfred, on 25 January 2011
In a follow up to Eva’s first post in our alternative careers series about how a research background in developmental biology can lead to a career path that lies outside ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 23 December 2010
This is the first in a series of posts about careers outside of academic research. See here for more information. To start the series on alternative careers, I’m going to ...