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发帖数: 1145 | 1 如果因为family commitment，只能在一个地方找工作，而这地方只有一所top20的学校。
虽然这学校有不少大牛，但偏偏没有我phD领域的牛（连头小牛都没有）。
我是应该换方向努力找大牛呢，还是找个普通点的但是相关领域的实验室？
我老板说training更重要，但我是奔着薄厚3年然后回国找教职去的，很担心换方向后
，3年时间的积累不够支持将来的独立工作。
而且这些年出去开会我都努力去social，结交了些有冲劲想法的同辈人，为将来
networking打基础，这一换方向就全费了。
求过来人经验～ | A******y
发帖数: 2041 | 2 My personal opinion (at least in the US): My training from Ph.D. to post-
doc are in two completely different areas. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and
did my post-doc in a molecular biology lab. My currently lab, I can do
chemical synthesis to molecular biology and all the way to xenograft and per
-clinical toxicology without significant help from other laboratories. What
does this mean? I don't have to share the 250k (if you are lucky), R01
with another lab which will likely take about half of that. With budget
cuts, you need to make sure whatever your post-doc training will help you
getting grants in the future, which I think multidisciplinary approach in
training is the future.
Also, most importantly you want to make sure your post-doc adviser knows how
to write grants (I got lucky, my post-doc adviser is a very good grant
writer (2-3 R01 through out his career) and seeing how he organizes grant is
very helpful. I believe as a post-doc today, you need to set two goals.
One is paper, paper, and paper, and another is trying to get K00 within 2-3
years (I know it is hard, but I hope your advisers at least sit down and
talk to you about it). | l******g
发帖数: 1145 | 3 非常启发的经验，多谢！
写作能力的确很重要，接下来几年一定要好好下功夫。
再请问一下，你现在的方向，是在postdoc基础上发展起来的，还是两者结合？
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【在 A******y 的大作中提到】
: My personal opinion (at least in the US): My training from Ph.D. to post-
: doc are in two completely different areas. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and
: did my post-doc in a molecular biology lab. My currently lab, I can do
: chemical synthesis to molecular biology and all the way to xenograft and per
: -clinical toxicology without significant help from other laboratories. What
: does this mean? I don't have to share the 250k (if you are lucky), R01
: with another lab which will likely take about half of that. With budget
: cuts, you need to make sure whatever your post-doc training will help you
: getting grants in the future, which I think multidisciplinary approach in
: training is the future.
| A******y
发帖数: 2041 | 4 I would said I learned how to run and not run a lab when I was a graduate
student. Experimental techniques, I combined both of my graduate and post-
doc experiences together. My current project although is an extension of my
post-doctoral work, it is very far from my post-doc project (i.e. different
diseases and different molecular targets). Try to find a niche in science,
NIH is less likely to fund you if someone is already working on the same
idea. | l******g
发帖数: 1145 | 5 非常感谢！看来要把重点放在找一个能扩展知识面和技术的实验室上，希望将来能以别
的形式回到现在的领域来。
多谢建议，big bless！ |
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