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| bshanks@114 | 24 ==== Personal availability ====
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| bshanks@115 | 26 I have a small lab and meet frequently with all members of my lab. Once or twice a day, I walk around and chat with lab members who are not too busy. These chats last from twenty minutes to over an hour. I check in with each lab member at least once a week, if not more. I have an open door policy and frequently have multi-hour discussions with lab members who walk in.
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| bshanks@115 | 29 ==== Skills mentoring ====
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| bshanks@115 | 30 Postdocs in my lab work closely with me and receive a large amount of
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| bshanks@115 | 31 one-on-one training and practice in theoretical skills such as how to:
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| bshanks@115 | 33 * be on the lookout for unexplained regularities within experimental data; come up with interesting new theoretical hypotheses; search the literature for existing theoretical hypotheses that might explain a regularity in data; mathematically formalize hypotheses
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| bshanks@115 | 34 * apply advanced mathematical tools from physics, mathematics, and statistics to solve problems; produce formal mathematical proofs; rigorously make predictions based on a theoretical hypothesis
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| bshanks@115 | 35 * make predictions which can be tested by comparison with data already available in the literature; search the literature for this data; know when it is time to apply a theoretical approach, and when it is time to apply a computational approach; use computational methods to analyze data; find or create appropriate controls for analyses of data; make predictions which can be plausibly tested by new experiments; interpret the results of available data and new experiments in a rigorous manner
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| bshanks@115 | 36 * explain the importance and relevance of particular research topics; explain hypotheses and results in a clear fashion
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| bshanks@115 | 38 Postdocs also have the freedom to choose which lines of inquiry to
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| bshanks@115 | 39 pursue, to find and to assist in the application of grants, and to choose which venues to give
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| bshanks@115 | 40 talk at; these choices provide valuable practice in career decision-making.
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| bshanks@115 | 42 The Salk Institute as well as the University of California at San
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| bshanks@115 | 43 Diego (UCSD), which is located across the street, offer a variety of
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| bshanks@115 | 44 seminars and workshops for postdoctoral career development. Salk is
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| bshanks@115 | 45 also a charter member of the National Postdoctoral Association.
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| bshanks@115 | 47 In addition to remote conferences, for which travel support is provided, postdocs have frequent opportunities
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| bshanks@115 | 48 to give talks to other members of my lab, to lab meetings of other
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| bshanks@115 | 49 labs at Salk and UCSD, and to periodic small regional neuroscience conferences
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| bshanks@115 | 50 which are located here.
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| bshanks@114 | 52 ==== Career planning and professional development ====
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| bshanks@114 | 54 One alternative is to have a formalized bureaucratic system where postdocs and mentors produce written plans and evaluations of themselves and each other. This can be counterproductive in a small lab. Instead, I meet frequently with each member of my lab and we discuss career development on an ongoing basis.
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| bshanks@114 | 57 \end{document}
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