Staying at the Bench: Non-PI Careers that Keep You Doing the Work You Love

Boryana (Bory) Petrova, PhD, Instructor,Harvard Medical School

Stuart Levine, PhD, Director,BioMicro Center, MIT

Christina Steadman, PhD, Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

What if I want to keep doing science? Many post-PhD careers take trained scientists away from the bench, but that need not be the case. Hear about the perspectives and trajectories of three “staff scientists”—some of whom conducted postdoctoral research at MIT—and how their work overlaps and diverges from that of a PI at an academic institution.

Session organizers: Dylan McCormick and Alice Herneisen

Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/96695361761

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