S3E2: How to find a mentor

NINDS's Building Up the Nerve

The third Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast helps you strengthen your mentoring relationships with tools and advice from both trainees and faculty. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!
In the second episode of the season, we focus on finding mentors that are a good fit, how to choose a research advisor, and how to build a mentoring team.

Featuring Shawn Bates, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at California State University, Chico; Yesenia Garcia, Neuroscience PhD Student, Emory University; and Kaela Singleton, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University School of Medicine.

Resources

• Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience (BRAINS): https://brains.uw.edu/
• Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES): https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/summer-program-neuroscience-excellence-and-success
• Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP): https://www.sfn.org/initiatives/diversity-initiatives/neuroscience-scholars-program

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

Luvut

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introductions (00:00:55)

3. Q&A (00:04:29)

4. Advice (00:36:20)

5. Outro (00:40:06)