Every Wednesday we have been hosting an ‘Away from home’ blogging series which features one Indian postdoc working in a foreign lab. Each post recounts his/her experiences: the triumphs and challenges of lab life, the cultural differences, what they miss about India, as well as some top tips for postdocs headed abroad.
The series has had an excellent response from the scientific and research community worldwide. So for regular readers, and those who are just joining us, we thought we would provide asummary of the first four entries, including an interactive map pinpointing the labs these postdocs are based.
We will continue to update the map each Wednesday and hope that you will join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag.
Of jalapenos & cognition
Abhijit Das, a postdoctoral fellow at the Kessler Foundation, New Jersey, USA completed his neurology residency at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. In December’s first postdoc blog, he tells us about his tryst with blizzards, his coming to terms with the silent ‘j’ of jalapenos, and the excellent research environment in cognitive neurorehabilitation.
Research not a job
Puja Arora tells us why the “best thing about doing research as a job is that it’s not a job”. Puja did her Ph.D from National institute of immunology in New delhi, India is now at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Maintaining life’s equilibrium
Our last blogger of 2012 was Niti Kumar, a PhD from the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi. She is currently a postdoc at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany. Niti says her chemistry teacher propelled her into science with some funny correlations she made between chemistry and life! Read on.
Our Away from home interactive map, pictured below and updated every Wednesday, is dotting up the US and Germany. Stay tuned as we add more Indian postdocs from around the world. Feel free to suggest names of postdocs from unusual countries we haven’t covered yet.
