Life Outside the Lab DGP 1/13/17. n Extracurricular and career development opportunities. n The CLIMB program (Assistant Director Toni Gutierrez)

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1 Life Outside the Lab Extracurricular ad career developmet opportuities The CLIMB program (Assistat Director Toi Gutierrez) Studet housig talk ad Q&A 1

2 Graduate Studet Life Chicago Graduate Studet Associatio Represets all Chicago graduate studets, DGP ad NUIN predomiate Advocate for graduate studet issues Career developmet programmig (etworkig evets, resume writig workshops, etc.) Social programmig, voluteer ad outreach opportuities Poster this afteroo DGP Studet Coucil Act as a liaiso betwee the studet body ad admiistratio Idetify ad fill gaps i programmig offered to DGP studets Recet accomplishmets: Detal isurace for all years Access to studet louge Started mothly DGP research club Sposored DGP social evets beach volleyball, Jazzi at the Shedd Studet metorig program 2

3 DGP 1/13/17 DGP Studet Coucil Ariel Dotts 2016 Susa Park 2015 Kylee Morriso Kelly McKio Malii Rammoha Huter Rogers Laura Ruhge 2012 Gael Scholtes 2014 Ashlee Bell-Coh Maxwell Edmods 2012 MSTP STudet Assisted Metorig Program (StAMP) First year studets are assiged a studet metor i their third year or above based largely o research iterests Your metor will reach out to you i the early summer to see if you eed aythig as you are preparig to move/start graduate school Studet-metor evets throughout the year begiig durig orietatio Throughout your first year, your metor will be there as a resource ad soudig board to talk about rotatios, classes, choosig a lab, qualifyig exams, etc. 3

4 Other Resources for Graduate Studets Other graduate studet associatios ad advocacy orgaizatios (primarily through the Evasto campus although some have Chicago braches) AccessibleNU, Couselig ad Psychological Services, Health Services, Gym Access Look at The Graduate School s website ( for resources, liks, etc. Career Developmet Programmig: BioProfessioals DGP, IBiS ad NUIN programs all participate Pathway to the Professoriate Recet evets: Isights from a Successful Job Search, Fidig ad Choosig a Postdoc Upcomig evets: Academic Job Search Series BioSurvival Skills Recet evets: Iformatioal Iterviewig, Tailorig Your Resume for the Job Descriptio Upcomig evets: Job Search Series BioOpportuities Recet evets: Life Scieces Cosultig, Careers at the CDC Upcomig evets: No-Faculty Careers i Academics, Keyote Address by Dr. Meg Reusch at research symposium 4

5 Career Developmet: Other Schools ad Degrees or Certificates Dual degree with Masters of Sciece i Cliical Ivestigatio Certificate i Cliical Ivestigatio Maagemet for Scietists ad Egieers (certificate) from Kellogg School of Busiess Teachig Certificate from Searle Ceter Classes at Kellogg School of Busiess, Cliical Ivestigatio programs, Public Health programs Career Developmet: Other Resources Other studet-led groups, such as Advaced Degree Cosultig Alliace, CGSA Sciece i Society (sciece writig ad outreach) Northwester Career Advacemet The Graduate School Workshops ad The Writig Place 5

6 Aother Resource: DGP Alumi We are developig a strog alumi etwork for the DGP ad across programs at Northwester Our alumi are i a variety of iterestig positios i academia, idustry, busiess, law, etc. We have a active LikedI group with alumi from all the biology PhD programs ad postdocs They are very willig to talk to curret studets by comig to campus for evets or i a oe-o-oe settig to help you thik about your career optios. DGP Graduate Placemets (of 293 o-postdoc kow placemets) Academic Idustry Idustry 27% Academic 37% Govermet Marketig ad Commuicatios Law Medical Cosultig Fiace K-12 Teachig Other No-profit Additioal Traiig Publishig Idustry 31% Academic 29% Academic 43% Sciece No- Research 18% Idustry 18% Academic Research or Teachig Idustrial Research Sciece Related No-Research Govermet Research No-Sciece Related Uemployed DGP NIH Biomedical Workforce Report 6

7 DGP 1/13/17 DGP Alumi Highlight: Dr. Amy Wagers Graduated i 1999 from Dr. Geoffrey Kasas s lab, where she studied T cell homig to sites of iflammatio Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Irvig Weissma at Staford Uiversity, where she studied hematopoeitci stem cell fate, plasticity, ad agig Curretly the Forst Family Professor of Stem cell ad Regeerative Biology at Harvard Uiversity Studies the mechaisms regulatig hematopoeitc ad muscle formig stem cells migratio, expasio, ad differetiatio Authored more tha 100 papers, wo umerous awards for stem cell biology Was the keyote speaker for Driskill Day i 2015 ad gave a Lectures i Life Scieces Semiar DGP Alumi Highlight: Dr. Meg Ruesch Graduated i 1998 from Dr. Lou Laimi s lab Moved straight ito idustry as a scietist/group leader at Abbott Labs i the diagostic divisio, the worked at Pharmacia ad Upjoh before movig to Pfizer i 2003 Held multiple roles i Pfizer i aalytical research, i the biotherapeutics pharmaceutical scieces ad worldwide research ad developmet. Curretly a Vice Presidet at Pfizer, where she leads a large orgaizatio resposible for maufacturig the cliical materials for complex biotherapeutics, vaccie products, ad gee therapy programs. She focuses o developig, characterizig, ad cotrollig the large scale processes required to make these recombiat proteis safe ad efficacious. Is also comig to Northwester i August to give a keyote address at a symposium that is joitly hosted by the NU Postdoctoral Forum ad BioProfessioals 7

8 Questios? 8