AAI Committee on the Status of Women: Activities & Symposia

2005 Careers Roundtable 

Careers Roundtable -- Experienced scientists served as discussion leaders at each roundtable, leading informal discussions on a specific career issues/options.

GENERAL -- Topics related to the environment you work in or want to work in:

     1. Academic research: general

     2. Biotech and Industry: general

     3. Governmental agencies: CDC/FDA/NIH

     4. Clinic: Clinical and diagnostic immunology, clinician-scientist

     5. Undergraduate Institutions: teaching, doing research part-time

TRANSITIONS -- Topics focused on a specific career stage:

     6. Graduate student to Post-doc: finding a post doc, interviewing

     7. Post-doc to PI: finding a position, interviewing, negotiating, lab start-up

     8. New PI: attracting students and post-docs, preparing for tenure

     9. Mid-career: developing administrative and management skills/sabbaticals

     10. Changing careers: moving from academia to industry, or vice versa
 

SPECIAL -- Topics for unique situations:

     11. Career and Family: time management/family leave/professional couples

     12. Integrity and Ethics: dealing with controversy, discrimination in the workplace

     13. Alternative careers: science journalism, patent Law

     14. Politics of Science

     15. Networking