Join Sikoya Ashburn, Thomas Carew, and Anne West as they share their personal experiences and offer practical advice on finding leadership opportunities and developing management skills early in your career. Moderated by Janice Naegele, this discussion will explore transferable skills that trainees can start developing now to propel their career forward. This is your opportunity to ask questions and get tips on how to lay the groundwork for long-term success.
Learning objectives
- Recognize leadership opportunities available to trainees
- Learn how to develop management skills
- Identify transferrable skills that support career advancement
Speakers
Sikoya M. Ashburn, PhD
Sikoya Ashburn is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Christopher Newport University. She graduated from Duke University with a BS in neuroscience and a BA in Spanish. Ashburn received her PhD from Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during which she also earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate. As an interdisciplinary neuroscientist, she uses neuroimaging to understand how the cerebellum, a structure at the base of the brain, contributes to cognition and neurodevelopmental disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD. Ashburn is passionate about sharing science with school-aged children and teenagers. As such she has organized numerous Brain Awareness Week events over the course of her career, including hosting neuroanatomy labs for middle and high school students. Presently, she continues curating neuroscience outreach events as the founder of the Tidewater Brain Bee as well as career development events as the Director for Community Outreach of Ashville Learning Co.
Thomas J. Carew, PhD
Thomas J. Carew received his PhD from the University of California, Riverside. He joined the faculty of Columbia Medical School before moving to Yale, where he was the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. He is a former chair of the psychology department at Yale, a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, an elected member of the Society for Experimental Psychology, an elected fellow of the AAAS, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past Councilor of the Society for Neuroscience. From 2000 to 2011, Carew was Bren Professor and chair of the department of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California, Irvine. In 2011, he became the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, where he is also a Julius Silver Professor of neural science. In 2009, Carew served as the president of the Society for Neuroscience. Carew's research interests center on behavioral, cellular and molecular analyses of brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
Janice R. Naegele, PhD
Janice Naegele is the Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science (Emerita), formerly the dean of Natural sciences and mathematics. She earned her BA in neurobiology, magna cum laude at Mount Holyoke College, received her PhD in neuroscience from MIT and completed postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University and Yale University School of Medicine before joining the faculty of Wesleyan University in 1991. Naegele's recent research focused on GABAergic interneuron transplantation for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. Her group showed that interneuron transplants form extensive synaptic connections with adult-born granule cells and suppress seizures. Interneuron transplants also enhance adult neurogenesis and prevent seizure-induced neuropathological changes, underscoring the promise of GABAergic interneuron transplantation therapy for intractable forms of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Anne West, MD, PhD
Anne E. West is a professor of neurobiology and cell biology, and she is the associate director of the Medical Sciences Training Program (MSTP) in the Duke University School of Medicine. She is a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, the Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, and the Duke Cancer Institute. West is a molecular geneticist whose research focuses on identifying the regulatory mechanisms that control the development and plasticity of the brain. West obtained her BA in 1989 from Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, where she did undergraduate research in chemical ecology. She received her MD and PhD degrees in 1998 from Harvard Medical School, with research in neuronal cell biology. She then did postdoctoral research at Children’s Hospital in Boston. She has been active in university governance, serving on the Academic Council and its executive committee, the University Priorities Committee, and the External Engagement committee of the Board of Trustees. Outside of Duke, she serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors at eLife and she is a frequent grant reviewer and study section chair for the National Institutes of Health, as well as a reviewer for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI).
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