This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":2713,"date":"2018-12-12T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:17:43","slug":"are-you-a-postdoc-want-to-teach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/2018\/12\/12\/are-you-a-postdoc-want-to-teach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Postdoc?  Want to teach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #d100d1\">Greetings Postdocs!<\/span><\/strong> Is your CV in dire need of teaching experience, but you don&#8217;t have the time or opportunity to teach an entire course? Then this program is designed especially for you!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The <span style=\"color: #d100d1\"><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hsls.libguides.com\/postdocsHowTo\">How-To Talks by Postdocs<\/a>&#8220;<\/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 (or less) &#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. But you don&#8217;t need to be in biomedical or health sciences to participate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d100d1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/ask-a-molbio-specialist\">CONTACT US to find out more information.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d100d1\">***Actively searching for instructors on any of these data-related topics:***<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Python \/ R \/ SPSS \/ your choice<\/li>\n<li>Julia Programming Language<\/li>\n<li>Data Visualization<\/li>\n<li>Data Cleaning<\/li>\n<li>Cataloging \/ Managing Image Files<\/li>\n<li>Depositing Data<\/li>\n<li>Writing Data Management Plans<\/li>\n<li>Sharing Your Data<\/li>\n<li>Asking Others for Their Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d100d1\"><strong>Previous topics:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CV preparation<\/li>\n<li>A guide to writing letters of recommendation<\/li>\n<li>UNIX for biologists<\/li>\n<li>Ethics of scientific image manipulation<\/li>\n<li>Using 3D printing for tissue engineering<\/li>\n<li>Molecular cloning<\/li>\n<li>Histology image processing using Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>Choosing matrices for 3D cell culture<\/li>\n<li>DNA\/RNA immunoprecipitation &amp; NGS<\/li>\n<li>Correlation of methylation profiles w\/expression data<\/li>\n<li>CRISPR<\/li>\n<li>Protein expression analysis<\/li>\n<li>Identifying genes from exome sequencing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d100d1\"><strong>Possible teaching ideas:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHow to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be a good mentor<\/li>\n<li>create a quality scientific poster<\/li>\n<li>review an paper for publication in a journal<\/li>\n<li>prepare for an interview<\/li>\n<li>maintain work-life balance as a postdoc<\/li>\n<li>use HPLC in your research (or any other technique)<\/li>\n<li>interpret mass spec data (or IR, NMR, or any other technique)<\/li>\n<li>handle cheating in the classroom<\/li>\n<li>etc &#8211; get creative!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d100d1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/ask-a-molbio-specialist\">CONTACT US to find out more information.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ptwo\/15739982985\">image credit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #d100d1\">Greetings Postdocs!<\/span><\/strong> Is your CV in dire need of teaching experience, but you don&#8217;t have the time or opportunity to teach an entire course? 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Want to teach?\" href=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/2018\/12\/12\/are-you-a-postdoc-want-to-teach-2\/\">Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":2728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/molbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}