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style="font-size:14pt">Making the Most of Your Postdoc -
Practical Advice and Lessons Learned <font
color="#000000">(Reminder)</font></span></b></span>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><b style=""><span
style="margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Corbel"
color="#262626"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hosted by the
Office of the Vice President for Research</span></font></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><font size="2"><font
face="Corbel"><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(192,0,0);
font-size:12pt"><b>Date and Time:</b> </span><span
style="margin:0px"><font color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt">Friday, </span><b style=""><span
style="font-size:12pt">December 1</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt">, 2017 @ 3:00-4:30 pm</span></font></span></font></font></p>
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face="Corbel"><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(192,0,0);
font-size:12pt"><b>Location:</b> </span><span
style="margin:0px"><font color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt">46-3002, Singleton Auditorium </span></font></span></font></font></p>
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face="Corbel"><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(192,0,0);
font-size:12pt"><b>Registration:</b> </span><span
style="margin:0px"><font color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt">Please register <a
class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk261845"
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAwudQisbxuIHHZovC_35MSo2nE4VyAx0KQe51IWtiGZycNQ/viewform"
target="_blank"> here</a></span></font></span></font></font></p>
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color="#262626"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px"><font
size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt">A postdoc is a truly precious time in
a researcher’s career. The ultimate goal of a postdoc is to
develop additional skills needed for the next phase of one’s
chosen career. How does one make the most of his or her
limited time as a postdoc? In this panel, seasoned postdocs
and junior faculty will discuss what steps they took during
their postdoc that proved successful, and reflect on what
they wished they had done (or started to do) earlier.
Additionally, they will discuss what skills and training
have provided the greatest advancement in their careers.
Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions
and seek advice from the panel. Whether you are just
starting your postdoc, a graduate student preparing for a
future postdoc, or even a seasoned postdoc, the advice from
this inspiring set of panelists will give you unique
perspectives into how to make the most of your postdoc
experience.</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px"><font
size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px"><font
size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></span><span
style="margin:0px"><font size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt"><b>Moderator</b> – Dr. Madeline Oudin
(Research Scientist at Koch Institute and future Assistant
Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University) <br>
</span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px"><font
size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt"><b>Panelists</b> – Dr. Ritu Raman
(Postdoctoral Associate at the Koch Institute), Dr.
Sebastian Pattinson (Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical
Engineering), Dr. Canan Dagdeviren (Assistant Professor in
Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the Conformable
Decoders group in the MIT Media Lab) <br>
</span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px"><font
size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt">See their bios below<br>
</span></font></span></p>
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size="2" face="Corbel" color="#262626"><span
style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:justify">*****<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">MODERATOR</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> - Dr. Madeleine
Oudin</span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">
will soon begin a faculty position at Tufts University, in the
department of Biomedical Engineering. She grew up in Paris,
France in a multicultural environment, and completed a BSc in
Biochemistry at McGill University, a MSc in Pharmacology and a
PhD in Neuroscicence from King’s College London, UK. She has
been working in Frank Gertler’s lab for the past six years
(first as a postdoctoral fellow, and currently as research
scientist). Her research at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative
Cancer Research involves trying to understand how metastasis,
the dissemination of tumor cells throughout the body, occurs and
how it affects response to chemotherapy. Dr. Oudin received a
Breast Cancer Research Department of Defense Postdoctoral
Fellowship and is now funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to
Independence from the National Cancer Institute. She has also
received multiple awards, such as the Women in Cancer Research
Award, American Association for Cancer Research
Scholar-in-Training Award and the MIT Infinite Kilometer Award,
for her accomplishments in research and involvement in the
community. She will now be starting her own lab at Tufts
University.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">PANELISTS</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Dr. Ritu Raman</span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> is
a postdoctoral associate in the Langer Lab at MIT. Her research
interests focus on developing smart responsive implantable
devices for sensing and drug delivery in the body. She is
passionate about understanding and utilizing the dynamically
adaptive nature of biological systems, and aims to establish an
academic research lab focused on bio-hybrid design in the
future. Dr. Raman is deeply interested in science communication
and science policy, and enjoys speaking, writing, and planning
outreach events centered on the importance of STEM research and
advancing education for underrepresented minorities in STEM. She
received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2016) in Mechanical
Engineering as an NSF Fellow at the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign. Her doctoral research centered on
high-resolution 3D bio-printing and bio-hybrid robotics. She
received her B.S. magna cum laude (2012) in Mechanical
Engineering, with a minor in Biomedical Engineering, from
Cornell University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span class="lg"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Dr.
Sebastian</span></b></span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">
<span class="lg">Pattinson</span></span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> is currently a postdoctoral
fellow in Mechanical Engineering at MIT working with Professor
John Hart. His research aims to realize novel devices through
advances at the interface between nanomaterials and additive
manufacturing. He received Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in the
Materials Science Department at the University of Cambridge,
where he developed synthesis methods to control the structure
and function of carbon nanotubes and hierarchical materials. His
awards include a UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council Doctoral Training Grant, a US National Science
Foundation Science, Engineering, and Education for
Sustainability postdoctoral fellowship, and an MIT Translational
Fellowship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Dr. Canan Dagdeviren</span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> is
an Assistant Professor in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences
at MIT, where she leads the Conformable Decoders research group.
At the Media Lab, Dr. Dagdeviren’s Conformable Decoders group is
working to create mechanically adaptive electromechanical
systems that can intimately integrate with the target object for
sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other
applications. Her research is built on the belief that vital
information from nature and the human body is ‘coded’ in various
forms of physical patterns, and that conformable decoders can
‘decode’ these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.
Her work has been featured in many media outlets, including
Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Mechanics, CBS News, the LA Times,
BBC News, New Scientist, IEEE Spectrum, Physics World, and
Nature Materials. In 2015, MIT Technology Review named her among
the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (inventor category), and Forbes
magazine selected her as one of the "Top 30 Under 30 in
Science". Recently, Dr. Dagdeviren has been named as a Gifted
Citizen by Ciudad de las Ideas of Puebla, Mexico, Spotlight
Health Scholar by Aspen Institute, and World#1 in Medical
Innovation Category of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the
World (TOYP) by Junior Chamber International (JCI). In December
2016, she was awarded with Science and Sci Life Prize for Young
Scientists in Translational Medicine Category and invited to
attend Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. She was
recently named as the 2017 Innovation and Technology Delegate of
the American Academy of Achievement.</span></p>
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