<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The deadline has been extended up to </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span class="">June 6th 2015</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">.</span><br>
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Available Positions - Postdoctoral discussion leaders, CB310qc, Current Topics in Cancer Research<br>
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Are you a postdoc? Do you want to improve your communication/teaching skills at Harvard Medical School? Do you have recognized experience on cancer genetics, cancer metabolism or cancer immunology?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
We are seeking three postdoctoral fellows to serve as discussion leaders for the Fall graduate student course "Current Topics in Cancer Research", tentatively scheduled to take place on Thursdays from 9-10:30am, September 24th - November 12th, 2015.<br>
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Postdoctoral discussion leaders are responsible for leading one session in their area of expertise. For each course session, discussion leaders select one recent, high profile paper and one or more supporting reviews to be discussed in a round-table format. Course sessions consist of a short lecture by the discussion leader to review background information, followed by presentation of the paper and moderation of graduate student discussion of the selected paper. The discussion will be focused on the impact of their discoveries in the field, and deep review of the techniques used on the paper and techniques available on the field..<br>
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We are seeking discussion leaders in the following areas of expertise:<br>
1. "Genome Instability and Mutations" (tentative date:October 1st 2015)<br>
2. "Metabolism and Cancer"(tentative date:October 8th 2015)<br>
3. "Avoiding Immune Destruction" (tentative date:November 5th 2015)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
Selection of discussion leaders will be made on a case-by-case basis. Fellows must obtain permission from their PI to participate, and instructional participation must not be in conflict with the fellow's visa status or funding mechanism % effort stipulations.<br>
Interested fellows should contact Meg Mittelstadt at <a href="mailto:megan_mittelstadt@hms.harvard.edu">megan_mittelstadt@hms.harvard.edu</a>, by May 15th, 2015 with the next info:<br>
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A) Your name, email address and Topic that you would like to lead.<br>
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B) Your CV describing your teaching experience, and publications about the topic.<br>
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C) The reason why you would like to teach at this course.<br>
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Zafira Castano, Ph.D.<br>Founder & Director International Mentor Program USA-Europe (<a href="http://www.ecusa.es/imp" target="_blank">www.ecusa.es/imp</a>)<br>Instructor, Department of Medicine<br>BWH/Harvard Medical School<br><a href="http://mclab.bwh.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">http://mclab.bwh.harvard.edu/</a><br>5-214 Karp Research Building<br>1 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 20115<br>Email:<a href="mailto:zafiracastano@gmail.com">zafiracastano@gmail.com</a><br>Linkedln:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zafira-castano-corsino/31/a25/517" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zafira-castano-corsino/31/a25/517</a><br></div></div>