March 18: Maximizing the Postdoctoral Period

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

      Maximizing the Postdoctoral Period

Speakers - MIT faculty members:

  * *Catherine Drennan*, HHMI Professor and Investigator, Departments of
    Chemistry and Biology
  * *John Leonard,* Associate Department Head/Professor, Department of
    Mechanical Engineering

Date and Time: *March 18, 2015, 3-4:30 pm*
Location: *Singleton Auditorium, Building 46-3002*

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research

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Hear suggestions from two MIT faculty members for getting the most out 
of an MIT postdoctoral experience. They will address questions and 
others you may raise, including:

  * Outside of research, what should a postdoc be learning?
  * What are some mechanisms to improve communication skills and other
    non-lab bench skills?
  * How can postdocs best prepare for faculty positions, and present
    themselves as compelling candidates?
  * What are effective strategies for evaluating and preparing for a
    nonacademic path?
  * What are ways to strengthen communication with faculty supervisors
    and other mentors?

*About the Speakers:*

Professor *Catherine Drennan *is a professor of chemistry and biology at 
MIT, and a professor and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical 
Institute. She received an A.B. in chemistry from Vassar College, 
working in the laboratory of Professor Miriam Rossi, and a Ph.D. in 
biological chemistry from the University of Michigan, working in the 
laboratory of the late Professor Martha L. Ludwig. She was also a 
postdoctoral fellow with Professor Douglas C. Rees at the California 
Institute of Technology. In 1999, she joined the faculty at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has risen through the 
ranks to full Professor. Cathy’s research interests lie at the interface 
of chemistry and biology. Her laboratory seeks to understand how Nature 
harnesses and re-directs the reactivity of enzyme metallocenters in 
order to perform challenging reactions. By combining X-ray 
crystallography with other biophysical methods, her goal is to 
“visualize” molecular processes by obtaining snapshots of enzymes in action.

*John J. Leonard* is Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean 
Engineering and Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT 
Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT 
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research 
addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile 
robots.He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and 
Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in 
Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (1994). Prof. Leonard 
joined the MIT faculty in 1996, after five years as a Post-Doctoral 
Fellow and Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater 
Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award 
(1998), an E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award from Science Foundation Ireland 
(2004), the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper 
Award (2006), and he is an IEEE Fellow (2014).

*Both speakers serve on the MIT Faculty-Postdoc Advisory Committee.*


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