What an exciting week, with the CRISPR battle leaning towards Broad for the time being, and ISRO launching 104 satellites in one go! CSG couldn’t have been a silent watching space in the meanwhile. Let’s have a look into what our members have been up to in the last week.
What does it mean for UC’s appeal for the patent or for the rest of the users of CRISPR technology?
As we keep on adding more and more man-made objects in the space, do we also chance that they backfire? Or do we have solutions to mitigate them already?
USA sees further cuts in academic tenure track positions. Private investments get state funding boost on the other hand.
Princeton and other universities join hands to challenge Trump administration’s executive order to ban immigration from seven Muslim majority countries.
Jobs aren’t secure anymore. Don’t wait till you lose a job before you start looking for a new one.
- Campus Fellows Program – an effort to get smart minds to work on exciting life science problems in India
As India tries to develop attractive programs to retain and regain its scientifically trained population, are the efforts still sufficiently good?
Is industry-academia collaboration the sustainable model to follow? Can it also ensure a safe and stimulating environment for fundamental research?
Take advantage of the growing pool of skills and experience that come with the increasing number of CSG members, as they come together to advise and help you design your resume appropriately for your job applications. Take a look at few of the opportunities open around.
- Immunologists and biochemists alert: Faculty cluster hires at Virginia Tech, Dartmouth College, and Case Western Reserve University, USA
- Postdoctoral position open for computational microbiome research at Fred Hutchinson’s Cancer Research Centre, USA
- Call for data programmer at Vertex Pharmaceutical, Boston, USA
- Roche is looking for a CRISPR scientist at the Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery group at Zürich, Switzerland
- F1000 Research is looking for an editorial assistant at London, UK
CSG wishes you all a fruitful week ahead.
About the author:
Somdatta Karak works with Club SciWri as a project co ordinator and Corporate Liaison. She is a doctorate in neuroscience from Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany and has been a Teach for India fellow (2014-16). She loves putting her analytical skills to build newer and more sustainable solutions, enjoys traveling and communicating and takes every opportunity to expand her horizon.
You can reach her here.
