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Career Paths: Academia, Biotech, Pharma, Clinical Research, Government, Science Writing, Tech Transfer & Entrepreneurship, Job Searching
Professional Skills: Collaboration, Communication, Grant Writing, Leadership, Mentoring, Personal Growth, Research Management, Teaching.
| Date, Time and Location | Title | Presenter or Description | Category | Registration |
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| December 7, 1:00-4:00 pm $150 | cGMP for (Bio)Pharmaceuticals | This lecture-based, three-hour virtual course covers 21 CFR Parts 210, 211, and 600. Topics include the current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs), regulatory compliance, and maintaining a culture of quality for the safe manufacture of biopharmaceutical drug products. Participants learn the core precepts of FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practices and their direct application to the manufacture and testing of a regulated biological product. Learning Objectives · Understand the purpose and impact of CGMP protocols and regulatory compliance · Recall the history of CGMP and the role of FDA · Recognize legislation, definitions, and critical components of CGMP in biological drug development · Comprehend the FDA CGMP Regulations as defined in 21 CFR 210, 211, and 600 | Biotech & Pharma | Registration |
| January 9 | All Day | Online | Accessible Online Environments | This self-paced online offering provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions for making an online course more accessible. Hosted by UFID | Teaching | Registration |
| January 10, 9:00 AM, Online | "Inspiring Trust" | The focus of this workshop is on the role of the leader in setting a personal example. Emphasis will be on the leadership competencies of “role model,” “integrity,” and “humility.” At the end of this session, participants will be able to identify the key aspects of integrity and humility and have generated ideas and action items to cultivate these aspects of effective leadership. January 10 | 9am – 12pm | Online Hosted by UF HR | Leadership | Registration |
| January 10, 1:30 pm, Online | "Communication for Managers" | In this session, we will identify key issues, challenges, and strategies to help managers communicate effectively with team members. January 10 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | Online Hosted by UF HR | Communication | Registration |
| January 11, 2023 12:00-215 pm | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: Building a Welcoming and Inclusive Research Group | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: Five units, covering communication, resilience, inclusivity, conflict and feedback, and trainee wellbeing, will help PIs and staff support your biomedical trainees. Each unit will explore ways to manage common challenges in research groups by means of a webinar (to watch in real-time or via a recording) and facilitated small groups designed to build a community to improve training across the US. You are encouraged to attend the entire series, but each unit may be attended as a stand-alone. For questions regarding this series, please contact the OITE at OITE@mail.nih.gov Please include "PI Series" in the subject line. | Personal Growth | Registration |
| January 11, 2023 | Mentoring Across Diversity | Jeremy Waisom, PhD | Mentoring | |
| January 11 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm | Online | Developing Your Emotional Intelligence for Workplace Effectiveness | Hosted by UF HR Explore ways to understand your own emotions and how to perceive the emotions of others. Find ways to strengthen relationships, build networks and find common ground. Generate ideas and “next steps” for leveraging your emotional intelligence in the workplace for improved effectiveness. | Leadership | Registration |
| January 12 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm | Online | Accountability in the Workplace | Participants will define “accountability” as a leadership competency and explore ways to incorporate accountability in their interactions with employees. The overall objective of the workshop is to identify ways to positively impact performance and work culture to get great results. | Leadership | Registration |
| January 12 | 2pm | Online | Core Curriculum Skill #1 Zoom Presentation: Every Semester Needs a Plan | NCFDD offer this planning webinar at the beginning of each semester so that you can take time out of your schedule to identify your personal and professional goals, create a strategic plan to accomplish them, and identify the types of community, support, and accountability you need to make this your most productive and balanced semester ever! | Personal Growth | Registration |
| January 13, 202312:00 pm | Learn Discover Lead: Getting Published & Increasing Your Visibility | Linda Cottler, PhD,Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Research & Planning, College of Public Health and Health Professions | Research Management | Registration |
| January 17 | 3pm – 4pm | Online | Riding Emotional Waves | This weekly drop-in workshop will focus on building skills to gain more control on emotions and reduce suffering. Participants will learn core mindfulness and emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Attending all sessions is recommended as each week will cover a new topic (see below). You are welcome to join as often as possible. | Personal Growth | Registration |
| January 18, 2023; 12:00 pm | Getting Your Startup From Idea to Funding | UF Innovate | Pathways Insights Seminar Series This primer on startups is targeted to students and researchers new to the startup world. The presentation will cover company formation, capital considerations, pitch deck information, and venture capital concerns. Ajay Rayasam and Dr. Mitra Mitri from the venture capital firm OUP will provide both a physical science and life science perspective on the basics of creating an academic startup and how you can impress investors. Register here for the in-person and virtual event on January 18th at 12pm. | Entrepreneurship & Tech Transfer | Registration |
| January 18 | 12pm | Online | How to Find a Job You’ll Love | Join the Beyond the Professoriate team for this webinar to learn how to find a job you’ll love! Hosted by Beyond the Professoriate | Job Searching | Registration |
| January 18 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm | Online | Now Hear This | In this workshop, we’ll: Define “listening” and how it impacts your work; Recognize and deal with the barriers between listener and speaker; and Practice good listening techniques and identify ways to make them work for you. | Communication | Registration |
| January 19, 2023; MBI Room LG 101A' 4:00 - 5:00 PM | "Now Hiring PhD's: Post-doc not required" by Dr. Maria Urso, PhD. | The COM Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences is excited to host our January Career Development Seminar next Thursday, January 19th from 4-5pm with Dr. Maria Urso. This will be an in-person seminar with FOOD! If you are interested in attending the post-seminar dinner, please email me (n.lewis@ufl.edu) or Victoria (leroyv@ufl.edu). | Job Searching & Biotech | please email me (n.lewis@ufl.edu) or Victoria (leroyv@ufl.edu) |
| January 19 | 3pm – 4pm | Online | The Power of Self-Compassion | Hosted by CWC The Power of Self-Compassion is a three-part didactic, interactive, and experiential workshop. Learn skills to improve your well-being through practicing self-compassion. | Personal Growth | Registration |
| January 19 | 9am – 12pm | Online | Leveraging Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leadership | Hosted by UF HR; At the end of this session, participants will be able to identify how emotional intelligence affects leadership and will have generated ideas and next steps to leverage their emotional intelligence in the workplace for heightened leadership success. | Leadership | Registration |
| January 19 | 1:30pm – 4:30pm | Online | Transforming Conflict | In this class you will learn how to build your conflict competence/fitness to transform conflict and use it to our shared advantage for better decision-making, problem-solving and relationship-building in the workplace. | Leadership | Registration |
| January 25, 2023 | NHLBI Catalyze Webinar: "Concept to Company: An Investigator's Guide to Starting a Business" | While there are several paths to market that are available to innovators, startup companies are one of the most popular. Join Steve Flaim, Senior Special Advisor and Investor-in-Residence with the Office of Innovation and Commercialization at the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute and Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the SEED Office. The webinar will cover when and how to form a startup company, key features of investable startup companies, and important considerations in developing a pitch deck. If you’re an academic researcher considering forming a company to accelerate your technology, a med-tech innovator in the early stages of development, or aspire to one day form your own startup | Tech Transfer & Entrepreneurship | Registration |
| February 1 | Successfully Navigating the Sponsored Project Process | Stephanie Gray, Assistant Vice President & Director of Sponsored Programs | Personal Growth | |
| February 8, 2023 12:00-2:15 pm | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: Difficult Conversations, Conflict, and Feedback | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: Five units, covering communication, resilience, inclusivity, conflict and feedback, and trainee wellbeing, will help PIs and staff support your biomedical trainees. Each unit will explore ways to manage common challenges in research groups by means of a webinar (to watch in real-time or via a recording) and facilitated small groups designed to build a community to improve training across the US. You are encouraged to attend the entire series, but each unit may be attended as a stand-alone. For questions regarding this series, please contact the OITE at OITE@mail.nih.gov Please include "PI Series" in the subject line. | Communication | Registration |
| February 10, 202312:00 pm | Learn Discover Lead: Obtaining and Negotiating a Faculty Position | L. Jeannine Brady, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry | Teaching | Registration |
| March 1, 2023 | Effective Science Communication in the Internet Age | Kevin Folta, PhD | ||
| March 8, 2023 12:00-2:15 pm | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: The Mental Health and Well-being of Your Trainees | Raising a Resilient Scientist Series: Five units, covering communication, resilience, inclusivity, conflict and feedback, and trainee wellbeing, will help PIs and staff support your biomedical trainees. Each unit will explore ways to manage common challenges in research groups by means of a webinar (to watch in real-time or via a recording) and facilitated small groups designed to build a community to improve training across the US. You are encouraged to attend the entire series, but each unit may be attended as a stand-alone. For questions regarding this series, please contact the OITE at OITE@mail.nih.gov Please include "PI Series" in the subject line. | Personal Growth | Registration |
| March 10, 202312:00 pm | Learn Discover Lead: Communicating Science to Diverse Audiences | Carrie Miller, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Public Relations/STEM Translational Communication Center, College of Journalism and Communications | Personal Growth | Registration |
| April 14, 202312:00 pm | Learn Discover Lead: Introduction to the Science of Team Science | Wayne T. McCormack, PhD, Director, Office of Biomedical Research Career Development | Collaboration | Registration |
| April 5, 2023 | Team Dynamics and Leading Teams | Wayne McCormack, PhD | Teaching | |
| May 12, 202312:00 pm | Learn Discover Lead: Incorporating Adult Learning Principles into Instruction | Erik W. Black, PhD MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Education, College of Medicine, Associate Director, HSC Office of Interprofessional Education | Teaching | Registration |
| June 7, 2023 | Writing Research Papers for General, Highest‐Impact Journals | Jurgen Bulitta, PhD | ||