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The Career Paths Seminar Series is designed to educate Sackler students about their potential career options after graduation. Our goal is to bring in speakers from the local community who are using their science PhDs in a variety of settings. These individuals come from both the academic and commercial realms and work inside and outside of traditional research tracks. Guest speakers will typically outline what they do for work and the path that took them there. They may also give advice tailored to PhD students who might want to pursue similar avenues. We will always close with a question and answer period. Though focused on PhD students at Sackler, the seminars are open to the entire Tufts/NEMC community and may also be useful to post docs and technicians. The series is a project of the Sackler Graduate Student Council and is supported by the Sackler Dean's Office.

Below you can find a listing of upcoming seminars. Feel free to send us suggestions for speakers or general topic areas you would like to see covered. Also, check out our helpful Career Choices links at the bottom of the page.

                                       We hope to see you there!

Next Seminar

Date  Speaker  Position  Talk Title Location
03/19/08

Joanna Schaffhausen

 Associate Producer, ABS News Medial Unit Helping the News Get it Right: Opportunities for Scientists in Journalism JAH508, 5pm

2007-2008 Seminars

Date  Speaker  Position  Talk Title Notes
02/13/08 Brian Schaffhausen Chair of the Biochemistry Program, PI, BCHM223 Lecturer The Academic Route: Getting There and Staying There Stearns 704 (Biochem. Conf. Room), 5-6pm
11/26/07 Cynthia Robinson Director of Science & Technology Policy Fellowships at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Recruitment Drive and talk about Federal Policy vs. Scientific Research Jaharis 58, 5-6pm
11/28/07

Sonia Guterman

 Patent Lawyer, Industrial Biochemist, and PI (too name a few!) Choosing the Profession that's right for you Stearns 704C
5-6pm
10/17/07

Dr. Roman Rariy and Dr. Alison Fleming

 Collegium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Industry Positions Stearns 704C
5-6pm
9/26/07 David R. Burgess Professor, Boston College Taking On That First Faculty Postion Nature Article

2006-2007 Seminars

Date  Speaker  Position  Association Notes
11/8/2006 Jennifer Zararutskie, Ph.D, J.D.  Patent Attorney Foley Hoag  
10/18/2006 Mark Landis, Ph.D Assistant Editor Journal of Molecular Cell Biology  
9/20/06 Roman V. Rariy, Ph.D    

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1/17/07 Marjory Levey Ph.D Medical Science Liason UCB Pharmaceuticals  
2/28/2007 Beverly Kahn, Ph.D   Resume writing and interviewing  
3/14/07 Amy Cheng Vollmer, Ph. D  Professor of Biology Swathmore College  
6/6/07 Janet Wolfe, PhD Founder and CEO, WXYZ Group Science Business, Family Business:  Navigating life's rapids

WEB

Career Choices Links

Science's Next Wave
A online magazine, affiliated with sciencecareers.org, which focuses on career choices and options for PhDs. Access is free and well worth a quick perusal.

The Scientist's Profession Archives
A comprehensive guide to a huge selection of diverse jobs arranged in an easy to use format for those at the end of their thesis work

ScienceCareers.org
A career database built out of the Science Journal's website. Similar to the first link, but still worth a look.

Biomedical Science Careers Program
A very useful website that provides information on careers, funding opportunities and even the ability to drop of a résumé in the same fashion as monster.com.

Practical Career Strategies for PhDs
A very interesting and informative essay concerning life after thesis.

Previous Years' Seminars

Date  Speaker  Position  Association Notes
5/17/2006 Lynetter Fouser, Ph.D Biological Scientist Wyeth

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2/15/2006 Erin Kimbrel, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Dana Farbar Cancer Institute

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1/19/2006 Fariba Houman, Ph.D. Project specialist for human subjects Harvard School of Public Health  
12/14/2005 Linda Bruett, Ph.D Research Project Manager Novartis  
12/7/2005 Ernest Urvater, Ph.D. Video and television writing, production, and editing Sawmill River Productions  
10/21/2005 Alumni Career Panel (M. S. Atkisson, Ph.D., Paul Beresford, Ph.D., Sharon Cantor, Ph.D., Peter G. Carroll, Ph.D., Nicole D'Avirro- Chiravuri, Ph.D.) Scientific Proposal Specialist, VP of New Technologies and Personalized Medicine, Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology,
Partner Licensing Associate		 Tufts University,
Ventana Medical Systems, UMMS-Worchester, Medlen & Carroll,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital 		  
3/9/2005 Pamela Esposito, Ph.D. Business Development and Research Planning Galenea Corp  
1/8/2005 Isabel Chiu, Ph.D. Director, Genetic Screening GenPath Pharmaceuticals  
11/14/2004 Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D. Professor MIT  
10/14/2004 Lalitha Ramakrishnan, MD/Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Washington  
7/20/2004 Chris Cummings, Ph.D. Director, Model Systems EnVivo Pharmaceuticals  
7/19/2004 Michael Rosenblatt, Ph.D. Dean of Medical School Tufts University  
3/31/2004 Sonia Guterman, Ph.D. Patent Attorney Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.  
3/24/2004 Jonathan Aschoff, Ph.D. Research Analyst Brean Murray & Co.  
1/20/2004 Rosana Kapeller, Ph.D. Director of Target Advancement Millennium Pharmaceuticals  
12/2/2003 Feng Chen, Ph.D.,
Peg Atkisson, Ph.D.		 Associate Editor,
Scientific Writing Consultant		 Cell, Tufts University  
11/4/2003 Manoja Ratnayake-Lecamwasam, Ph.D. Industry Agreements Associate Massachusetts General Hospital  
10/24/2003 Alumni Career Panel (Richard Siegel, Ph.D., Matthew Vincent, Ph.D., Mary McCarthy, Ph.D., Laurie Read, Ph.D., Monette Cotreau, Ph.D.) Vice President,
JD Partner,
Editor-in-chief,
Associate Professor, Associate Director of Medical Sciences		 Centocor,
Ropes & Gray, Biotechniques,
SUNY-Buffalo,
Wyeth 		  
9/17/2003 Michael Stevenson, Ph.D. Regional Scientific Business Director AstraZeneca  
5/29/2003 Connie Cepko, Ph.D. Professor Harvard Medical School  
5/7/2003 Judith Glaven, Ph.D. Senior Editor Cell Press  
4/24/2003 Andrew Munk, Ph.D. Managing Partner/Consultant GuideStone, Inc  
4/2/2003 Guy Page, Ph.D. Director of Proteomics BD Biosciences  
3/5/2003 Martha Grossel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Connecticut College  
2/12/2003 Antonio DaSilva, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Biogen, Inc.  
1/29/2003 Michael Gilman, Ph.D. Senior VP for Research Biogen, Inc.