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 ==== Personal availability ====
 
-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 try to make sure that 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.
+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.
 
 
-==== Technical skills mentoring ====
-Postdocs in my lab work closely with me and receive a large amount of one-on-one training in theoretical skills such as how to:
+==== Skills mentoring ====
+Postdocs in my lab work closely with me and receive a large amount of
+one-on-one training and practice in theoretical skills such as how to:
 
-* 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
-* apply advanced mathematical tools from physics, mathematics, and statistics to solve problems
-* produce formal mathematical proofs
-* rigorously make predictions based on a theoretical hypothesis
-* 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
-* explain the importance and relevance of particular research topics
-* explain hypotheses and results in a clear fashion
+* 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
+* apply advanced mathematical tools from physics, mathematics, and statistics to solve problems; produce formal mathematical proofs; rigorously make predictions based on a theoretical hypothesis
+* 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
+* explain the importance and relevance of particular research topics; explain hypotheses and results in a clear fashion
 
+Postdocs also have the freedom to choose which lines of inquiry to
+pursue, to find and to assist in the application of grants, and to choose which venues to give
+talk at; these choices provide valuable practice in career decision-making.
 
+The Salk Institute as well as the University of California at San
+Diego (UCSD), which is located across the street, offer a variety of
+seminars and workshops for postdoctoral career development. Salk is
+also a charter member of the National Postdoctoral Association.
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+In addition to remote conferences, for which travel support is provided, postdocs have frequent opportunities
+to give talks to other members of my lab, to lab meetings of other
+labs at Salk and UCSD, and to periodic small regional neuroscience conferences
+which are located here.
 
 ==== Career planning and professional development ====
 
 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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