CELL-MET Orientation

These videos describe our progress as a Center as of 2021.

CELL-MET has developed a mentoring contract to support our undergraduate researchers. If you are involved in the mentoring of an undergraduate student, whether as a faculty member or within a research group as a postdoc or graduate student, this contract is designed to help support mentoring conversations to be supportive, inclusive, and constructive. It can also be a mechanism for sharing research progress across mentors (e.g. between faculty and postdoc, or between two faculty across thrust areas).

A recent study of biomedically-driven professional development programs indicates that participating in professional development opportunities at any dosage (from one workshop to an internship opportunity) does not impact productivity or time to degree in comparison to those that did not participate. CELL-MET has many opportunities to engage with our industry partners and in professional development workshops – students and postdocs should use the outcomes of their career planning to identify the opportunities that are best aligned with their current and future goals. There are several online tools and resources that students and postdocs can use for planning their skill development in conversations with CELL-MET faculty:

https://www.postdocacademy.org/building-career-plan/
https://myidp.sciencecareers.org/
https://chemidp.acs.org/

Listed in the table below are Center-wide events that occur regularly. All CELL-MET events can be located on the Center-wide calendar.
 

Meeting	Purpose	Date/time	Audience
Operations Team Meeting	Share goal level updates to inform Center decisions	Second Thursday each month at 9:30-10:30 am ET	Goal Leads
Senior Leadership Team Meeting	Discuss center level topics and make decisions	Second Thursday each month at 10:30-11:00 am ET	Director, Deputy Director, Director of WDE
Community Meeting	An interaction focused on CELL-MET’s goals	First Thursday of the month at 12:00-1:30pm ET	All CELL-MET Members
Technical Meeting	An interaction focused on CELL-MET’s goals	Third Thursday of the month at 12:00-1:30pm ET	All CELL-MET Members
Journal Club	Read papers relevant to CELL-MET research and discuss them with Center members	Second Thursday of the month at 3:30-4:30pm	Students and postdocs
Professional Development Workshops	Build skills, network with industry partners, and broaden your understanding of engineering career pathways	TBD	Students and postdocs
Inclusion Thursday	Reinforces Center-wide commitment to a culture of inclusion through shared dialogue and understanding	TBD	Center-wide

The SLC has created a Google Document of all trainee projects to facilitate trainee communication and collaboration. If you haven’t sent us your information already, please add a summary of your project(s) relating to CELL-MET, a list of any skills/techniques/expertise you would be willing to talk about in the future, and any CELL-MET publication links you would like to add. This google doc is available to everyone and located in the CELL-MET Team Drive. If you have graduated, please indicate that in the ‘position’ column. If you do not see yourself, please add a row.

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