Company Visit - Celdara
Date:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Time:
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:Lebanon, NH
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3472883

Jake Reeder, PhD, CEO of Celdara Medical (Lebanon, NH) has invited graduate students/postdocs to visit his company.

We will meet Jake and other employees at Celdara to get a sense of what they do and how they got their jobs there.

We will carpool over to Celdara in Lebanon, NH leaving from the 37 Dewey Field Rd parking lot. We will meet at 2:30 pm. Once everyone has signed-up I will try to figure out carpooling.



http://celdaramedical.com/

Celdara Medical gives hope and health to patients by transforming academic innovations into medicines that cure the world’s most challenging diseases. We are a recognized leader with a rich stable of discoveries, developed in concert with premiere research institutions in the US, EU, and beyond. We secure lasting partnerships with inventors and their institutions, and provide the developmental, financial, and business acumen to bridge the gaps between discovery and clinical impact. With robust funding options, operations in greater Boston, Washington DC and New York City, growing affiliates in Seattle and Indianapolis, a wealth of opportunities in our pipeline, and partnerships with industry leaders worldwide, Celdara Medical navigates the path from science to medicine, accelerating innovation to improve human health.

GRAD Alum Visit - Molly Croteau
Date:
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3472101



Come have lunch with GRAD alum, Molly Croteau.

41 Haldemen with lunch provided

See bio below:



Molly Croteau, Ph.D. in Chemistry

Scientist, Bioassays at Avitide, Inc.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Molly obtained her Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the Dartmouth Chemistry Department in February of 2016. Her thesis work was developing new methods to understand chemical reduction and oxidation reactions in metalloproteins (proteins that contain metals); specifically a brilliant-blue colored protein called Azurin. In simple terms, she studied how the smallest unit of energy (an electron) changes how the metal interacts or binds with the protein, and how you can detect this electron change in a new way that would help scientists with more complex proteins and metals. While her work would never go on to cure cancer or fight crime, it does lay the foundation to help future researchers develop alternative energy fuels using the simple electron and natural proteins as the workhorse. Molly then applied her fundamental knowledge about binding interactions and obtained a job with Avitide, Inc. right in Lebanon, New Hampshire in February 2016.

About Avitide:

Avitide has been around since 2013 and was started at one lab bench in Adimab (another Upper Valley biotech company) with roughly 3 employees. We have grown to currently have about 35 employees in Merck’s old space in the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC), with a foreseeable expansion in the future. In the biotech world, growing and purifying biological drugs (like insulin) is a long, tedious, and expensive process. Here at Avitide, we design and build unique molecules to help purify biologics for large biopharmaceutical companies, so they can bring the drugs to market directly, or be accepted into clinical trials. We perform these tasks in 3 months, and offer more robust solutions to the current industry. In simple terms, let’s say a company has made a fruit smoothie, but they really only want the banana part of that smoothie from the mixture. Typically, they would pass the smoothie mixture through six to eight different filters, and eventually they would get just the banana part (the pure drug substance). At Avitide, we design and build one filter that separates the banana from the smoothie in one shot, with minimal banana clean up afterwards. Of course, we don’t actually work with smoothies and bananas, but with cell mixtures that contain the expressed drug of choice.

Molly is a Bioassay Scientist at Avitide, which entails determining how our molecules interact with the biological drug substances we receive from clients. She uses ForteBio Octet (BLI) technology, along with other binding technologies (ELISA, etc.) to select the best molecules from over 5,000 to 1 or 2 lead candidates. She also is the lead manager for a large and complex multi- year project, which entails data organization and task delegation throughout the entire workforce.

Other Info:

Molly knew that she wanted to pursue a career in the science industry, opposed to academia, and set her tasks in graduate school to meet this goal. She can offer advice about what techniques most industrial science companies are looking for in an employee, and how you can obtain those techniques during graduate school. She can also answer questions about large companies vs. small companies, postdoc vs. no postdoc, and other general advice.

Teaching the interview class
Date:
Monday, October 23, 2017
Time:
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3544464


In addition to a research talk, you may be asked to teach during your interview. Join us to chat about teaching the interview class.

Part of the academic job search series: #1 - Market and Search Overview #2. Cover Letter and CV #3. Preparing an Effective Teaching Statement #4. Workshop your Teaching Statement #5. Preparing an Effective Research Statement #6. Interviews: Responding to the Essential Questions & Mastering Media #7. Interviews: Talking about Teaching in the Interview #8. Interviews: Teaching The Interview Class #9. Interviews: Preparing and Delivering an Effective Chalk Talk. #10. Negotiating an Offer

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Lunch with Charlotte Bacon
Date:
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies

lunch provided
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3633148


Come enjoy lunch and conversation with Charlotte Bacon, associate director for Humanities Grant Support at Dartmouth. She will talk about writing books, finding, and applying for grant money!



Bio:

As associate director for Humanities Grant Support, Charlotte will work with faculty in the humanistic disciplines to identify funding opportunities and facilitate connections to resources for scholarly work. Based at the Leslie Center, she hopes to develop strong relationships within and across departments in an effort to fund research that supports faculty aspirations and enhances Dartmouth's reputation for scholarship.

She has managed and written grants for projects in the arts and directed and obtained funding for nonprofits. Charlotte was an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and has published five works of fiction, including three novels with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She has received the PEN/Hemingway prize, a fellowship from the NEA, a Guggenheim Foundation award, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her degrees are from Harvard and Columbia.