Description: Join us for the second webinar of SSR’s New Investigator Bootcamp series, titled “Setting-up and Staffing Your Lab”. This session is tailored toward future investigators seeking their first independent positions and features an expert panel, including Dr. Shuo Xiao, Dr. Xiaoqiu Wang, Dr. Anna Denicol, Dr. Elle Roberson, Dr. Nicholas Wege Dias. Moderator and audience questions will be answered on topics such as:
- Common pitfalls and mistakes
- R1 vs PUI (attracting candidates, start-up fund differences, timelines)
- Pros & Cons of different hiring strategies, who to hire
- What you need to open a lab
- Identifying Mentors and peers
- How to build long-term relationships
- How your personal leadership style impacts your management style
- Utilizing the Statement of Work with your hires
- Personnel and space management
Description: Join us for the upcoming webinar, “How to Put the ‘Fun’ in Funding: Applying, Maintaining Grant Funds, and Managing Your Finances,” where we’ll dive into key strategies for securing and managing finances as a new investigator. This session features a diverse panel discussing how to navigate funding opportunities, write effective grant applications, and manage lab finances. Attendees will learn about new investigator-specific and general grants, the grant application process, essential tips for grant writing, financial reporting, lab budgeting, and resources to streamline financial management.
Description: Join us for the first webinar of SSR’s New Investigator Bootcamp series, titled “Finding, Applying to, and Negotiating Your First Faculty Position”. This session is tailored toward future investigators seeking their first independent positions and features an expert panel, including Dr. Farners Amargant i Riera, Dr. Andrew Modzelewski, Dr. Ky Pohler, Dr. Joanie Jorgensen, and Dr. Carmen Williams.
Personalized, or precision medicine is all the rage! But the translational transaction of knowledge sharing is just as critical; ensuring that the messages reach the right audience, in an accessible manner, to create the biggest impact. It’s precision communication! In this session, we will talk about how to structure and then share messages that matter. Grants, presentations, conversation with the community – there will be something in this session for everyone!
For over a year, now we have all had to significantly adjust our home and work routines. While we all want to be highly productive and have a positive outlook during COVID times, all of us are dealing with unique issues that impact our ability to be productive at this time. From our trainees to our research staff, our experiences with and responses to these changes are unique and manifest themselves in different ways. In this webinar, we will provide members of SSR with insights and strategies for supporting themselves and their research groups during this difficult time.
The success of scientists, engineers, and medical professionals requires them to communicate to stakeholders, colleagues, and the public. To do this, they need communication practices that will help their audience engage, understand, and remember their content. This presentation introduces the Storyform method, materials, and tools, derived from the elements and principles of story, and demonstrates how they are used to create highly effective, exceptional presentations, slides, posters, and infographics. The presentation features multiple examples of work created by professionals from diverse fields and includes assessment data on the impact of Storyform on communication practices.
