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Description:

Interested in getting a position at a teaching-intensive institution?  Want to hear about the academic job search experience of a dual-career couple?

 Join us for a coffee hour with Bryan Thurtle-Schmidt and Debbie Thurtle-Schmidt, two UCSF postdoctoral scholars who just accepted positions at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Discussion Topics:

Bryan and Debbie will share their personal experience around 3 main topics, listed below.

How Debbie and Bryan navigated the dual-career couple academic job search.

What skills they felt were the most relevant for getting hired at a primarily undergraduate institution.

What the application, interview, and negotiation process was like for them.

About the speakers:

Bryan received his PhD from UC Berkeley where he studied the structure and function of topoisomerases. He is currently a postdoc at UCSF in Robert Stroud's lab, where he studies the structure and function of membrane transporters. This fall he will begin a position as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Davidson College.

Debbie received her PhD from UC Berkeley studying gene regulation in S. cerevisiae and is currently a LSRF postdoctoral fellow in Keith Yamamoto’s lab at UCSF investigating transcription factors in C. elegans. She will be transitioning to Davidson College this fall as a postdoctoral teaching fellow and in the subsequent two years as a visiting assistant professor.

Cancellation Policy:

If you are no longer able to attend this program, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the program to allow time for another person to register. If you fail to show up without any justification, you may be prohibited from registering for future OCPD academic career programs.

 

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