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Multiple postdocs out to academic/industry jobs + 2 grant NOAs in = open postdoc position.
Worms are great to work with, sensory biology is an endlessly fascinating topic, and we are a group of good humans. Please email if interested!
Piali Sengupta
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Piali Sengupta
@SenguptaLab
Brandeis Bio/Neuro. We study multiple aspects of sensory biology. Mostly in worms. Lab appears to be powered by vast quantities of junk food. Opinions mine.
- If I ever quit academia, it will be because of the sheer volume of admin work that is being piled on us PIs. It's non-stop and is coming from all directions including the Univ. Attending training sessions, filling out forms etc is becoming my nth full-time job and I am fed up.
- 👏🍾In the midst of current stresses, some good news. Happy to announce our latest publication in @nature. Authored by postdoc and soon-to-be-Asst Prof @_MikeOD_ @MCDB_Yale in collaboration with Henry Chao, Bennett Fox and @group_schroeder. 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158…
- A side-effect of living in this area. I walk into the specialist's office my PCP referred me to. The (young) Dr looks up and says - Hi Dr. Sengupta, you don't recognize me but you taught me Genetics when I was a sophomore. My first panicked question: What grade did I give you?
- I don't think I've seen this on all those advice lists on becoming a PI. You have to learn to deal w/ the sadness of having people you really like leave the lab. Constantly. It's good obviously but I hate saying goodbye. So I just pretend they are going on vacation. A long one 😢
- Good god. I leave Twitter for a few days and manage to miss the epic model organism smackdown. As (I think) the only @eLife Senior Editor worm person, all I will say is that any and all worm paper submissions are highly encouraged and strongly supported. At all levels.
- We immigrants often feel like we live in two different worlds. Today: take masks off (USA). Stay inside or die (India).
- Happy birthday to us 🎉🍾🥳!! The lab has now survived 26 years! And yes - several students in the lab pointed out to me that they weren't even close to being born when I set up the lab back in 1996 😲
- 1/ A Mother's Day personal thread. I don't recall ever calling anyone Mom. Both my parents died when I was 4, my sister 2. There was more childhood drama. As a parent, I now understand how hard it must've been for my paternal grandparents who raised us (my father was an only kid)
- "Barres spent his last days and final hours making sure that the letters of recommendation he had written for others were ready. “In what time remains to me that will be my highest priority,” he assured trainees...." med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…
- 25 yrs ago today, I walked into an empty lab @BrandeisLS - excited but clueless. 🙏🏾to all who joined me in that lab for the rollercoaster ride of exhilaration & occasional despondence. Also 🙏🏾to my village of mentors, friends & long-suffering family. Happy 25th b'day to us!
- I sent my first R01 (had worked for 2 full mos on it) to @betenoire1. This was in the days of paper copies and 26 pgs. Returned via FedEx. Totally red. I cried. Then calmed down, dealt with her edits, and got the grant. Takes a lot of time to edit in detail. Trying to pay it fwd.A mentor’s love for their trainees can be measured in tracked changes
- Thread: I have served on (and chaired) multiple F31/F32 review committees, have had trainees in the lab receive these grants, and others apply but not be funded. I have some random musings. 1/6
