There may be times when you have something to say but lack the confidence or skills to say what you think with clarity and grace. Sharing your opinions, raising an innovative or controversial idea, or challenging the status quo can take a lot of courage. Difficult discussions are par for the course in your career, but good communication and negotiation skills can help you think and speak with clarity and grace. This workshop will provide insight into best practices for interpreting a job offer, asking for what you want, and bringing colleagues around to your way of thinking. The fears that often prevent people, especially women, from speaking up will also be addressed.

Pascal Wallisch: Data science is a merger between computer science, statistics, and machine learning and fields like that. What made it a thing is that we're now able to get much, much, much, more data.

Published papers are the currency of success in neuroscience, yet the process of publishing a paper can be mysterious, especially to trainees.

Our understanding of the cell biology of mitochondria has exploded in the last decade, providing a renewed understanding of their contribution to neurological diseases ranging from pediatric encephalomyopathies to Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and others. In this webcast, select faculty from the 2016 Neurobiology of Disease Workshop will continue the discussion, emphasizing mitochondrial motility and neurodegeneration, mitochondrial function in Alzheimer ’s disease, and the role of mitochondria in immunity and links to neuroinflammation. After the scientific presentations, join all speakers in the Neuronline Community for a live chat.

As an undergraduate, the best way you can decide if you want to go to grad school is to sample some of the laboratory environments (for a couple of months, not years) that you think might be interesting.

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is a neurotransmitter implicated in a vast array of sensory, motor, and cognitive functions.

When scientists communicate effectively about their research, science thrives. Making our science digestible to nonscientists helps people understand the wider relevance of science in society. Given the current stark funding realities, making our science accessible can also promote more informed decision-making, especially with policymakers, government agencies, and other types of funders.

Until recently, analyzing a single cell to determine what genes it expresses and how it functions was beyond reach. But new techniques have emerged within the last 10 years that give researchers this capability, as well as the ability to analyze aspects of many individual cells at once. When combined with analyses of cell shape, connectivity, and activity, probing the genomes and expression profiles of single cells has the potential to yield powerful insights, yet also holds challenges.

Five neuroscience program faculty share the traits that they think can help graduate students excel in their training. Here’s what to keep in mind.

Our decisions are influenced by the value of the outcome we expect to obtain. For example, a person who prefers pizza over pasta will naturally choose pizza if both are on a menu.