The Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association is an organization run by and for about 1000 postdocs and early career scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We organize many activities to strengthen our ties to the Lab, to each other and to the (Berkeley) Bay Area. Our goal is to facilitate social interactions, scientific exchanges, seminars and general orientation.
 
Series X : Mina Bissell

Series X : Mina Bissell

We had the great honor to welcome Mina Bissell for the Series X seminar (the pictures are available here.)

Mina Bissell talking to Berkeley Lab postdocs
Mina Bissell talking to Berkeley Lab postdocs

She fought all her life to get her research accepted, but also smashing gender barriers. She’s always been a great advocate of the postdocs.

Trust yourself, you only have one life !

She gave a TED talk a few years ago (Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer)

Mina Bissell with Berkeley Lab postdocs
Mina Bissell with Berkeley Lab postdocs

Here’s a few resources she shared with us :

Thinking in three dimensions
 – Heeding a mentor’s advice: A lesson in persistence
Context is everything