Dec 1: Making the Most of Your Postdoc – Practical Advice and Lessons Learned, at 3 pm

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

*Making the Most of Your Postdoc – Practical Advice and Lessons Learned***

*Hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Research, MIT
*

*Friday, December 1, 2017*

*3:00 – 4:30 PM*

*Singleton Auditorium, **46-3002* <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=46>**

Registration link <https://goo.gl/forms/QuyemXICTPeYrZ5O2>

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.

*MODERATOR***

*Dr. Madeleine Oudin*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.**

*PANELISTS*****

*Dr. Ritu Raman*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.

*Dr. Sebastian**Pattinson*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.

*Dr. Canan Dagdeviren*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.

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