Session 2: Start at the End

Talk overview:
As you get closer to the finish line and prepare to complete your PhD, there’s one critical question that many trainees wrestle with. Should I do a postdoc? In this session, you will learn to define your career goals, understand how they can help you answer this critical question, and identify what type of postdoc would be best for you.

This session is part of the ‘The Strategic Postdoc’ course, created by the NIH-funded Yale Ciencia Academy in collaboration with iBiology.

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Speaker biography:
Dr. Laurence Clement is a Senior Manager at Genentech. She holds a PhD in Endocrinology and Cell Interactions from the Université Paris-Sud, France. Laurence was an international postdoctoral fellow at UCSF and briefly worked with a biotechnology company as a postdoc. From 2015 to 2017, she was the Principal Investigator on a Burroughs Wellcome award which focused on refining, evaluating, and disseminating a career readiness tool for research trainees (the Academic Career Readiness Assessment). She joined the Office of Career and Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her role as Program Director at UCSF involved developing and teaching courses and workshops to prepare research trainees for academic careers at both research- and teaching-intensive institutions. In 2021, she joined Genentech as a Senior Manager in the Knowledge Development in Early Clinical Development department.

Credits:
Mónica Feliú-Mójer (iBiology): Producer
Rosa Veguilla (iBiology): Producer & Curriculum Developer
Titilayo Omotade (Yale Ciencia Academy): Curriculum Developer
Eric Kornblum (iBiology): Videographer
Rebecca Ellsworth (iBiology): Editor
Chris George: Design and Graphics
Maggie Hubbard: Design and Graphics