Comments on: Nurturing your talent in academia http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:20:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mike http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4283 Mike Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:03:25 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4283 @chkuo You might like to look at www.grad.ac.uk, I think the website has a pretty good description. Anyone doing a PhD in the UK is eligble, you don't have to be British. @Pedro I hope so. I do wonder if the pressure of a PhD is giving me the wrong impression of what research is like, or that it's just tough because we're learning so many different skills at the same time. @chkuo
You might like to look at http://www.grad.ac.uk, I think the website has a pretty good description. Anyone doing a PhD in the UK is eligble, you don’t have to be British.

@Pedro
I hope so. I do wonder if the pressure of a PhD is giving me the wrong impression of what research is like, or that it’s just tough because we’re learning so many different skills at the same time.

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]]> By: Pedro Beltrao http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4231 Pedro Beltrao Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:47:05 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4231 Great post. I feel many times that the pressure that we are in (or that we imagine) is so counter-productive. I have been more worried about publishing and impact factors before. After a couple of conversations with older people I get the feeling that if we focus on the work the rest will eventually come. Still there are a couple of things that seam to be important, like getting yourself known by attending some conferences and making contacts with other people that share your interests. Here at EMBL- Heidelberg they are starting to formalize a bit more this type of training. We had recently a session on grant applications were they invited several people from funding agencies to explain some of the European grants for posdocs. That reminds me that I should write a note about it in the blog :) Great post. I feel many times that the pressure that we are in (or that we imagine) is so counter-productive. I have been more worried about publishing and impact factors before. After a couple of conversations with older people I get the feeling that if we focus on the work the rest will eventually come. Still there are a couple of things that seam to be important, like getting yourself known by attending some conferences and making contacts with other people that share your interests.
Here at EMBL- Heidelberg they are starting to formalize a bit more this type of training. We had recently a session on grant applications were they invited several people from funding agencies to explain some of the European grants for posdocs. That reminds me that I should write a note about it in the blog :)

]]> By: chkuo http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4217 chkuo Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:00:36 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/10/nurturing-your-talent-in-academia/#comment-4217 Hi Mike, That sounds very interesting. Can you tell us more about the course that you took? Maybe in a follow-up post? Hi Mike,

That sounds very interesting. Can you tell us more about the course that you took? Maybe in a follow-up post?

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