BGS Career Development
Making It Count!
The Penn Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens hosted their first symposium, titled “The Coronavirus Outbreak” on Friday, April 3, 2020 from 11am to 5pm. The symposium featured insights on coronaviruses from Penn experts.
Videos from the symposium are now available online.
Penn Libraries are hosting a remote series of Citation Management Workshops. See details and registration links below:
Want to have an easier time writing your research paper? Worried about citing sources incorrectly? Looking for tips and tricks to put together your bibliography?
We will have three virtual workshops on citation management tools the week of April 13.
The BGS website has been updated with a new page featuring BGS-specific information and resources as well as links to other Penn resources. Be sure to check out the video featuring messages from BGS faculty and staff! Other resources especially worth noting include MyQuarantineIDP – Action Plan for Remote Learning and the links to Virtual Training Opportunities and Technology Grants for Graduate Students.
Becoming a Resilient Scientist: Setting Reasonable Expectations and Healthy Boundaries for Ourselves and with Our Supervisors
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2300107262959484429
Apr 01, 2020 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker(s): Sharon Milgram, PhD, Director, OITE
Being a scientist requires a tremendous amount of resilience – experiments fail, papers get rejected, we struggle to communicate effectively with our supervisors and peers, and establishing healthy work-life boundaries can be a challenge, even in good times. These challenges are amplified greatly during this current crisis where we are bombarded by stressful news and have to make major adjustments to the ways we can and cannot do work. Join Dr. Sharon Milgram, Director NIH OITE, for a workshop focused broadly on resilience in research environments with a special focus on topics that are an especially challenging now. Topics to be addressed include, setting expectations and responding to the expectations of others, staying focused when teleworking, dealing with career-related anxieties, and strategies for building our resilience for now and in the long-term.
Penn Libraries now offers institutional access to Overleaf, the online collaborative LaTeX editing platform. All Penn faculty, staff and students may now set up free Professional accounts, or link to existing personal Overleaf accounts.
Instructions on how to access are found in the section “Sign up for Overleaf Pro with Penn Libraries” in this LaTex/Overleaf web resource:
https://guides.library.upenn.edu/LaTeX
We are excited to offer this new collaborative resource to the Penn Community. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Are you a Black Woman working or interested (even remotely) in Computational Biology?
Join the Black Women in Computational Biology Network–a rapidly growing online networking platform for sharing resources, experiences, and exciting science with a unique community of scientists like you.
Our global community is comprised of exciting women of all intersections of identity across all degree and professional levels from an array of backgrounds in biology, computer science, mathematics, bioengineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, and much more refining their unique skillset to answer biological questions through a computational and quantitative lens.
Excited and want to learn more? Visit blackwomen-incompbio.weebly.com to join us today, or email Jenea Adams at jiadams@pennmedicine.upenn.edu with any questions you have.
