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Then this program is designed especially for you!<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: magenta;font-size: medium\"><strong>&#8220;How-To Talks by Postdocs&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> series provides a low-stakes, minimal time commitment opportunity for you to gain teaching experience for which you will receive constructive feedback, a letter of acknowledgement, and optional videotaping of your 1-hour &#8220;how-to&#8221; style session.  The particular topic you choose is entirely up to you and can be anything remotely related to biological sciences&#8211;the list below includes several topics that are broadly related to STEM. 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Then this program is designed especially for you!<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: magenta;font-size: medium\"><strong>&#8220;How-To Talks by Postdocs&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> series provides a low-stakes, minimal time commitment opportunity for you to gain teaching experience for which you will receive constructive feedback, a letter of acknowledgement, and optional videotaping of your 1-hour &#8220;how-to&#8221; style session.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" alt= \"Attention Postdocs!!!\" href=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/2017\/11\/20\/attention-postdocs-3\/\">Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}