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<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dear fellow postdoc,</span>
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Are you looking to gain professional skills and plan ahead for your career after your postdoc? Curious about research and career options in industry or working toward an academic research career?</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
Whether you are just starting or finishing your postdoc or somewhere in between, the Boston Postdoctoral Association (BPDA) is excited to invite you to a Symposium on Careers and Collaboration in Science (B-SoCCS) <a dir="ltr">on
June 16th-17th</a> at the Broad Institute. Space is limited!<br>
We encourage all participants to submit abstracts for poster/talk presentations. For more information and guidelines to submit your abstract - deadline is June 2nd - please visit: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.bsoccs2017.org">https://www.bsoccs2017.org</a>.<br>
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Prizes for best presentations include: two $500 ASBMB travel awards, a Chromebook, a Samsung tablet, and a scientific site visit to Novartis!<br>
Our program includes, among other activities:<br>
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- Talks by Jay Bradner, MD (President, NIBR) and Phil Sharp, PhD (Nobel laureate, Professor, MIT)<br>- Leadership and communication workshops<br>- Grant writing and scientific aims workshops<br>- Academic interview and how to start a lab panel<br>- A special “Drug Discovery Bootcamp” hosted by Novartis scientists<br>- Panels on technology transfer and entrepreneurship.<br>- Networking opportunities with industry and academic professionals</font><br>
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B-SoCCS organizing committee<br>
Twitter: @BPDA_SOCCS</span>
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