US HUPO Pre-Congress Early Career Researcher (ECR) Mentoring Day

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Thursday, March 4
(all times noted in Central Time)

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM	Panel Q&A: Unconventional Career Paths
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Roundtable: Freelance Consulting
12:00 PM -12:50 PM	How to improve your “electronic visibility”
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM	CV/resume workshop

Events Descriptions:

Panel Q&A: Unconventional Career Paths - A panel of invited guests representing careers other than academia and industry will share their experience and insights about their career paths. Panelists from fields such as publishing/editing, consulting, business development, government, and science policy will be represented and available to engage in light discussions with the ECRs attending this session.

Format: Zoom
Panel Interview format

Presented By:

Henry Rodriguez, National Cancer Institute

Baljit Ubhi, SCIEX

Arunima Singh, Nature Methods

Ben Neely, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Candice Ulmer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Christopher Yarosh, University of Pennsylvania

Desmond Kaplan, KapScience

Roundtable: Freelance Consulting - Freelance consultants will share their experiences on getting started with consulting gigs using your proteomics expertise. Speakers will be experienced full-time consultants and postdocs/grad students doing consulting part-time.

Format: Zoom
Panel Interview format

Presented By:

Lindsay Pino, University of Pennsylvania

Julia Gauglitz, Sapient Bioanalytics

Wout Bittremieux, University of California San Diego

Desmond Kaplan, KapScience

How to improve your “electronic visibility” - Seminar on increasing your online presence through social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and personal websites. We’ll share our favorite “see-and-be-seen” virtual meet ups for proteomics scientists and tips for boosting visibility of your work and how to set up your Zoom for recording/attending video-meetings. We will go over example case studies and highly encourage the ECRs attending this session to come prepared with their updated LinkedIn profile if they want some personalized feedback provided on their electronic profile.

Format: Zoom
Live critiquing

Presented By:

David Tabb, L'Institut Pasteur

Jeanita Pritchett, National Institute of Standards and Technology

William Fondrie, University of Washington

Ben Orsburn, John Hopkins School of Medicine

CV/resume workshop - Trainees will receive tips on writing effective curriculum vitae (CV) both for academia and for business, followed by breakout rooms to critique and improve each other’s CVs. Again, we encourage the ECRs attending this session with necessary CV and/or resume documents prepared if they are interested in personalized feedback in the breakout rooms.

Format: Zoom
Introductory session followed by breakout room

Presented By:

Stephen J. Freeland, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center