Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association

News and Upcoming Events

Online Game Night

On Wednesday, July 8th we'll have an online game night starting at 7:00 pm. Sign up here.

Movie Night

Join our Movie Night on Friday, July, 17th at 8:00 PM! Vote for the movie we will watch here and sign up here. After the movie, we invite you to a Zoom social.

Buddy Lunch Break

Join a social buddy lunch on Zoom on Monday, July 20th, noon. Sign up here (by Sunday, July 19th, afternoon).

Cultural Lunch

This Friday, July 24th, 2020, at noon, Jonelle Basso, a postdoc in the Joint Genome Institute, will talk about Trinidad and Tobago.

COVID-19

Due to the COVID-19 precautions, we have to cancel all planned in-person BLPA events. Join the Online activities we’ve prepared for our community.

Past events

Postdoc-to-Postdoc Science Policy

On Friday, June 5th, BLPA hosted the Postdoc-to-Postdoc brown bag with Kathy Shield, a co-founder of the Science Policy Group at Berkeley. Here you can...

Cultural Lunch – British Columbia

During or Cultural Lunch on May 22nd, we travelled together with Karol Krizka, a postdoc in the Physics Division, to British Columbia, Canada. If you...

Cultural Lunch – India

On Friday, May 8th, Pramod Bhuvankar, a postdoc in the Energy Geosciences Division, presented the Cultural Lunch “India: The land of paradoxes, and unity in...

Cultural Lunch – Spain

Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez and Sergio Carrero Romero brought us for a journey (ofc, virtual) full of delicious food, beautiful nature, festivals, and art to Spain! Did you miss the...

Bake-Together

To uplift our everyday life during the Shelter-In-Place, our Social Committee organizes a series of bake-together online meetings. Led by a pastry wizard, Louise Frenck,...

Movie Nights

Our weekly movie nights make the movie watching during Shelter-in-Place a bit more social. Every week we vote for the movie we watch, and during...

Cultural Lunch – France

During our Cultural Lunch on Friday, April 10th we travelled to France to learn more about delicious French food from Louise Frenck from the Materials...

Cultural Lunch – Georgia

Thanks to Zara Bagdasarian, a postdoc in the Nuclear Science Division, on Friday, March 27th, we visited the country of Georgia! You can watch Zara's...

BLPA Board

BLPA is made up of volunteers – and we are always looking to grow! Are you interested? Do you want to know about the inner workings of BLPA and contribute to the postdoc community, building a larger network? Please contact us (postdoc (at) lbl.gov) or sign up to check out one of our many committees!