How to Use postdoc in a Sentence

postdoc

1 of 2 noun

• Then, in 2014, one of his postdocs told him about a strange occurrence in the lab.
  — Sonia Shah, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2023
• The reason for the time limit is that a postdoc in math or physics usually lasts two years.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• In Villa’s lab, Lindsey Young, a postdoc, showed me a dish of what looked like tiny holes punched out of tinfoil.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• The postdoc eventually had a healthy baby and kept her job.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2022
• Oxford postdoc Jack Matthews, the youngest member of Liu’s research group, explained that this was because, this far in the past, the lines between the kingdoms grow fuzzy.
  — Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
• That should be a sobering reminder as the ultra-safe human-cell-line project gets off the ground, says Nili Ostrov, a postdoc in Church’s lab who is leading the research.
  — Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• As a postdoc, he became intrigued by cosmic chemistry and the atmosphere of Venus.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 24 June 2021
• Yanoviak's postdoc Evan Gora then keeps tabs on the struck tree and its neighbors to document any declines.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 4 Sep. 2019
• Scott Boyken, a former postdoc in Baker’s lab, has designed, from scratch, proteins with tiny moving parts.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• No one knows exactly how many biomedical postdocs there are in the U.S.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
• As a postdoc at the Koch Institute in 2017, Garg was looking at gene regulation in cancer.
  — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021
• In fact, Sontheimer's husband, a postdoc named Ryan Taft, happened to be a bioscientist.
  — Wired, 30 Aug. 2019
• Ewing bequeathed the samples to his former postdoc, Peter Burns, then a professor at Notre Dame.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• Shepherd’s team—which includes the postdoc James Pikul and the octopus expert Roger Hanlon, who took the famous video at the start of this piece—designed their material to work in a similar way.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• To find out what in the bacteria was causing disease in the fleas, Hinnebusch and Iman Chouikha, a postdoc, chopped up Y. pseudotuberculosis into tiny pieces and fed them to fleas.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
• Julian Kölbel, one of Rigobon’s coauthors and now a postdoc at the University of Zurich, frames the ratings conundrum a different way.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2021
• That’s right—postdocs aren't safe from automation either.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2018
• Professors, graduate students and postdocs have joined forces to reach as many people as possible.
  — Adam Tamburin, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
• Because even if step one worked, Gaudelli would still have to Frankenstein it together with the remaining components of her base editor—a high risk bet that could leave her with nothing to show for her postdoc.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Cristina Villa del Campo, a senior postdoc in the Torres lab, tested for adult competition in the mouse heart by introducing winner cardiac cells at eight to ten weeks of age.
  — Kendall Powell, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• The trial had evaluated the efficacy of the poliovirus vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, a former postdoc in Francis’s lab.
  — Howard Markel, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Two decades later, when Peleg and her postdoc, the physicist Raphaël Sarfati, set out to collect firefly data, better technology was available.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• Amodei, thirty-six, has a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Princeton and did a postdoc at Stanford.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• The team included four researchers and 32-year-old Albanian postdoc Eriona Hysolli.
  — David Ewing Duncan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• One factor in particular, isolated from rats by a Canadian postdoc, seemed to be quite powerful.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• The challenge is also reflected in the quality of postdoc applications.
  — Thomas Kariuki, Quartz Africa, 31 Aug. 2019
• James Antony, now a postdoc at Princeton University but a graduate student at the time, had participants learn two musical sequences on a keyboard.
  — Sadie Witkowski, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• But after leaving a senior researcher at this university off a paper because of a lack of contribution, the postdoc faced a university investigation and was found to have been in the wrong.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
• Geetha Thimmegowda, a postdoc in Shannon Olsson’s lab at the institute, collected honey bees in and around Bengaluru, which has growing problems with air pollution.
  — Harini Barath, Science | AAAS, 10 Aug. 2020
• That left him two options: one lab with a postdoc in Iceland and a principal investigator in New York, one with a principal investigator living in Denmark.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 27 Aug. 2020

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postdoc

2 of 2 adjective

• Weifeng Chen, a postdoc working elsewhere in the lab, raced over.
  — Beryl Lieff Benderly, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
• So Kanwisher, along with her postdoc Katharina Dobs and other colleagues, turned to deep nets for help.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Moved out of the house in Eugene and headed to San Francisco, where my parents had gotten postdoc positions.
  — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
• In the hierarchy of memory science, Karim Nader hardly ranked — a lowly postdoc, only 33 years old, and not even a memory researcher.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
• To see whether the girdle might contain evidence for its use, Sarah Fiddyment, a postdoc studying ancient proteins at the University of Cambridge, and her colleagues examined it.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2021
• Gorbunova was able to work with her university to ensure the teams of undergrad students who normally take care of the naked mole rats were replaced by postdoc students and technicians using protective gear and working in shifts.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 8 June 2020
• Within House’s group, postdoc researchers are studying sediments left by ancient organisms in Western Australia.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Stephan adds that if postdoc appointments are extended, the academic community may see downstream impacts on another group: soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• To find out, her postdoc Oliver Maddocks methodically removed various amino acids from cancer cells’ culture medium.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
• But because postdoc salaries are funded by a variety of mechanisms, co-author Amir Behbahani acknowledges, finding money to extend everyone’s salary would be challenging.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• Additionally, there are fewer accomplished scientists that can take up postdoc positions and fewer institutions with the capacity to host postdoc trainees.
  — Thomas Kariuki, Quartz Africa, 31 Aug. 2019
• Weifeng Chen, a postdoc working elsewhere in the lab, raced over.
  — Beryl Lieff Benderly, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
• So Kanwisher, along with her postdoc Katharina Dobs and other colleagues, turned to deep nets for help.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Moved out of the house in Eugene and headed to San Francisco, where my parents had gotten postdoc positions.
  — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
• In the hierarchy of memory science, Karim Nader hardly ranked — a lowly postdoc, only 33 years old, and not even a memory researcher.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
• To see whether the girdle might contain evidence for its use, Sarah Fiddyment, a postdoc studying ancient proteins at the University of Cambridge, and her colleagues examined it.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2021
• Gorbunova was able to work with her university to ensure the teams of undergrad students who normally take care of the naked mole rats were replaced by postdoc students and technicians using protective gear and working in shifts.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 8 June 2020
• Within House’s group, postdoc researchers are studying sediments left by ancient organisms in Western Australia.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Stephan adds that if postdoc appointments are extended, the academic community may see downstream impacts on another group: soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• To find out, her postdoc Oliver Maddocks methodically removed various amino acids from cancer cells’ culture medium.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
• But because postdoc salaries are funded by a variety of mechanisms, co-author Amir Behbahani acknowledges, finding money to extend everyone’s salary would be challenging.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• Additionally, there are fewer accomplished scientists that can take up postdoc positions and fewer institutions with the capacity to host postdoc trainees.
  — Thomas Kariuki, Quartz Africa, 31 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024