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Scientific Sessions
Saturday, May 17
Career Development Workshops
WORKSHOP
WS-01 Getting Started as a Microbiologist at
a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI)
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Meeting Room 258A
Conveners:
Louise M. Temple; James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
Bernadette Connors; Dominican Coll., Orangeburg, NY
Faculty:
Louise M. Temple; James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
Bernadette Connors; Dominican Coll., Orangeburg, NY
Michael A. Palladino; Monmouth Univ., West Long Branch, NJ
Joseph Wu; New York Med. Coll., Valhalla, NY
Rodney King; Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
Steven James; Gettysburg Coll., Gettysburg, PA
Aaron Best; Hope Coll., Holland, MI
This workshop will address the challenges of beginning a career
teaching and doing research with undergraduates. Topics to be presented
and discussed include choosing and funding research likely
to be successful at a PUI, mentoring your undergraduates, starting
the job search, and navigating academia (work/life balance, hierarchy,
academic cultures). Three informative, short talks will be followed by
small group discussion sessions facilitated by the leaders, who represent
different kinds of institutions and different times in their careers.
Participants should leave with a toolkit, some definitive plans, and
some strong personal resources for the future.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
■ Identify the challenges and benefits of a career at a PUI.
■ Examine the challenges that will be faced in creating a successful
research program.
■ Identify the resources during the process of getting a position and
navigating the early years.
Course Level: Beginner
WORKSHOP
WS-17 Research Mentor Training: Building and
Sustaining the Research Enterprise
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Meeting Room 257A
Conveners:
Christine Pfund; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Beronda Montgomery; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Facilitators:
Christine Pfund; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Beronda Montgomery; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Kelly Diggs-Andrew; American Society for Microbiol., Washington,
DC
Christine Pribbenow; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Melissa McDaniels; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Beth Lazzazera; Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
To advance the ASM Member Challenge that promotes Every
Member a Mentor, the ASM Education Board and University of
Wisconsin-Madison will lead a train-the-trainer mentoring workshop
for Microbiologists. Participants in this workshop will gain the knowledge,
skills and confidence needed to successfully implement one
or more versions of the evidence-based mentor training curriculum,
Entering Mentoring. Curricula in the Entering Mentoring series have
been used successfully with research mentors of undergraduates,
graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and faculty across many
disciplines, including Microbiology. Workshop participants will first
experience a mentor training session as participants, followed by
activities aimed at improving participants’ facilitation skills and
familiarity with the curriculum and its associated resources. Finally,
participants will have the opportunity to practice facilitating activities
and case study discussions from the curriculum, taking turns in the
role of facilitator. Through its interactive nature, this workshop aims
to promote discovery, understanding, broadening participation and
interdisciplinary collaborations among established research investigators,
early-career scientists, undergraduate faculty, and trainees. The
workshop is sponsored by the NSF/ASM Leaders Inspiring Networks
and Knowledge (www.asmlink.org) program of the ASM Education
Board, and NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (grant # 1241970).
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
■ Use the knowledge and skills to implement mentor training.
■ Employ confidence in facilitation skills.
■ Assess the research mentor training curricula and tools to assess
the impact of mentor training.
■ Apply practical plans for implementing mentor training at their
home institutions.
Course Level: Beginner
WORKSHOP
WS-02 Microbiology Career Choices:
What’s Available and How to Succeed
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Meeting Room 258A
Convener:
Neil Baker; The Ohio State Univ. (Emeritus), Columbus, OH
This session Microbiology Career Choices: What’s Available and How
to Succeed emphasizes information about alternatives to careers in
doctoral (and medical) education. It is targeted to undergraduate and
graduate students seeking careers in the microbiological sciences
and especially about opportunities that go beyond what they have
seen or experienced in academic settings. Microbiologists from hospital
or reference labs; agricultural, food or environmental companies;
government labs; nonprofits; and other non-academic employment
settings will lead discussions for groups of 8-10 participants; the
groups will change every 30 minutes to give participants several
opportunities to chat with several microbiologists in diverse positions.
This round table, highly interactive, “speed dating” format has been
successful in the previous two years with over 400 students and
fellows participating in 2013.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
■ Identify the major advantages and disadvantages of various career
tracks.
■ Explain the important approaches to a successful career track in
microbiology.
■ Distinguish the diversity of career tracks open to microbiologists.
Course Level: Beginner
SATURDAY MAY 17
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