Bioinformatics PhD in a Quinceañera dress I’m a member of a hip-hop dance company I breakdance (bgirl) I studied in Math and Biological Engineering at MIT
MRO • Grant Agreement signed: $600 million over 10 years. • Master Collaboration Agreement (MCA) signed among the Biohub, Stanford, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley. • Space Use Agreement for 97,000 sf in Mission Bay
of every protein •Defining the interactome of all proteins Theory • Rethinking the foundations of cell biology and providing quantitative, testable hypotheses Lineage •Microscopy based lineage measurement technologies in worm, fish and mouse •Nuclease bar coding approaches to genetic lineage tracing in xenografts Identity •Single cell transcriptome and proteome analysis in mouse and human •Tabula Muris Manu Leonetti Loic Royer Spyros Darmanis Greg Huber ARCHITECTURE LINEAGE IDENTITY THEORY
Prepared CV 2017 January Applied to postdocs Postdoc interviews Started applying to industry February Kept applying to industry jobs March Phone interviews April Onsite interviews Received offers May Defended Started new job!
organization - Academic postdocs - Startups - Established companies - Consider: company size - <20 - small, tight-knit, room to grow - 20-100 - In the middle of growing pains - 100-200 - established but small, you’ll still recognize everyone’s face - 200+ - large, won’t know everyone in the org - How much should you be paid? - Check location-based salaries on Glassdoor.com
Social media presence - Conferences - Ask for introductions to friends of friends who work at companies you’re interested in - Before you meet with them, do your homework. Know what the company does and where the industry is overall. Don’t ask “googleable” questions e.g. asking an Illumina employee. “How does this sequencing thing work?”
date) website - Blog is not necessary, but information is - Have recent publications or projects listed prominently - “Hugo” framework (https://gohugo.io/) has nice academic templates - GitHub pages with READMEs!! - It’s weird when you go to someone’s GitHub page and all they have is projects from a few years ago - Great READMEs tell me this person has great communication skills - Facebook, Twitter, etc should be accurate - Your most recent school/location - Profile pictures should look like you
inadequate for a little bit - Then pause, take a deep breath and stop comparing yourself - Find someone’s CV with a nice template and copy it - Mine is a fork: github.com/olgabot/latex-moderncv - This template does combined CV + Cover Letter as one PDF - Academic vs Industry? - I used the same one - Add sections that showcase things you’re proud of - E.g. I added a “software” section to show software packages I wrote or contributed code changes to - Keep significant contributions only: I technically have contributed to SciPy through a docstring change but I didn’t feel it was sufficient
Phone interview Onsite interview Received offer Early cancer detection startup Yes No No Bioinformatics consulting company Yes Yes No CRISPR startup Yes Yes No Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Yes Yes No Large tech company's venture into biology Yes Yes No Single cell startup Yes Yes Yes Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Yes Yes Yes Focused on small (<200 people) companies because I wanted to be part of the growth phase
ping-pong” - Thoughtful management style - Focus on relationships, making sure the people are good to work with - Experience in the industry - Concrete growth plan for maintaining culture - Awesome projects - Open source-y - Not polite to waitstaff - C-level people were happy, my-level people weren’t - Difference between people there for <3 months vs 3+ months - “Management style? What do you mean?” - Interview outing is really an “outing” and not a regular thing - Interviewer tries to sound smarter than you Positives Red Flags (negatives)
- You might get some hard hitting questions - E.g. an interviewer criticizes or attacks you - Remember, they were strangers to you a day ago! This is your first time meeting them and they’re trying to understand where you come from - When someone criticizes you for a past decision, you can say: “At the time, I was thinking about X” - In retrospect, I would have .. - Bring the conversation back to your accomplishments
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