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Postdoctoral Resource Page

Postdoctoral researchers play key roles in many laboratories, departments and research units within the University of California community, and generate much of the innovative ideas and leading-edge research.  Research opportunities for postdocs abound at UC, and this page is designed for these scholars who wish to learn more about the resources available to them - at UC and beyond.

Getting started at:

UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Los Angeles

UC Merced

UC Riverside
UC San Diego 
UC San Francisco

UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

• Postdoc Society of the Life Sciences Division

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

• Institute for Scientific Computing Research (ISCR) Doctoral Program
• Center For Applied Scientific Computing
• Postdoctoral Program in Biosciences

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Council of Graduate Deans

Funding Opportunities:

Berkeley

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow's Program in the Humanities
• Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences
• Ciriacy Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Faculty Fellow's Program

Davis

• Postdoctoral Scholar's Association
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Irvine

• Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology and Genetics
• Social Science Research Council Fellowships
• Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Program
• Presiden'ts Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Los Angeles

• Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars

• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Merced

• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Riverside

• UC MEXUS-CONACYT Fellowship Program
• Presiden'ts Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

San Diego

• Division of Physiology, School of Medicine
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

San Francisco

• Sandler Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Santa Barbara

• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Santa Cruz

• NIMH Postdoctoral Training Grant
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

UC-managed Laboratories

• Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

General Funding Sources:

• CALFED Science Program
• UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support Database (GRAPES)
• University of California Grants Programs (many of which support postdoctoral research.)

• Minority Access To Research Careers (MARC Program)
• Search for University Research Funding (SURF)
• Biochemistry and Biophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Lymphatic Research Foundation Awards Program

UC Academic Employment Opportunities:

• Conditions of employment (Academic Personnel Manual 390)
• For all campuses
• UC Irvine
• Southern California's Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
• Northern California's Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)

Upcoming Events:

• NPA Annual Meeting (2007)
• A day-long UC-wide conference on graduate education and the professoriate, with an emphasis on diversity will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2007, at UC Berkeley.  The conference, Changing the Culture of the Academy, is jointly sponsored by UCB, President Dynes, NSF, and others.  For more information, follow this link http://cci.berkeley.edu/news/ .

Links to national organizations that promote post-doctoral research:

• Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (2000)
• National Postdoctoral Association