Postdoc committee
| Facundo Romani | Chair |
| Jenia Binenbaum | Co-Chair |
| Kumari Billakurthi | |
| Erika Ellison | |
| Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo | |
| Lovely Lawas | |
| Bhavani Natarajan | |
| Gabriela Pingarrón-Cárdenas |
Postdoc representation
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Staff committee
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Health and safety committee
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Biological safety committee
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Equality and diversity committee
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Eftychios Frangedakis |
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Internal seminar series organiser
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Postdoc survey
Postdoc events
Past postdoc events
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In 2018 more than 60 participants took part in the joint retreat for Cambridge Plant Science postdocs at the Postdoc Centre in Eddington. This event was the first of its kind and included participants from the Department of Plant Sciences, Sainsbury Lab, NIAB and Department of Chemistry. The aim was to generate inspiration, ideas for possible career paths and increase networking. It was organised by the Postdoc Committee and supported by CambPlants.
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In 2018 the committee organised a session on outreach programs with Chantal Helm as well as a meet a member of the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge session.
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In 2017 at the postdoc lunch on teaching Julia Davies and Matt Davey presented a talk about what supervising and demonstrating are like and about the opportunities and training offered by the Department.
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In 2016 the Postdoc Committee organised a session on pensions as part of its postdoc after work series and a lab supervisor information session delivered by Part II Senior Examiner Julia Davis. See a full list of the 2016 postdoc events.
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In 2015 postdoc sessions included a lunch with acting Head of Department Professor Alison Smith, a discussion with Dr Mariana Fadenza on innovation and enterprise, a presentation about OpenPlant Fund by Jennifer Molloy and sessions on mentoring schemes and how to get the best from mentoring delivered by Dr Sharon Saunders. In addition to this was a session on teaching opportunities by Katherine Hubbard and a presentation on EU Marie Curie funding applications delivered by Graham Dransfield from the University's Chemical Engineering Department.
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In 2015 the committee also organised a series of public engagement and outreach sessions with speakers including Nicola Buckley (Head of Public Engagement, University of Cambridge), Harriet Truscott (Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme), Elisabeth Burmeister (Events and Outreach Manager, Sainsbury Lab) Dr Mariana Fazenda (Innovation and Enterprise Project Officer, CambPlants) and Dijana Maric (Project Coordinator, Department of Plant Sciences).