89. Tools for Looking into the Brain: Gaining Independence and the Importance of Mentorship in Academia (with Ashlan Reid & Mari Sosa)

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Today's episode is the second part of our two-part conversation with Ashlan Reid and Mari Sosa, two neuroscience postdoctoral fellows, who share their experiences finding and fostering community within academia. In this episode, they share their experiences being part of an international community of life science early career researchers, through an organisation called Leading Edge. The Leading Edge Fellows program provides women and non-binary postdocs with an opportunity to meet and connect with others, and training opportunities for mentorship and career development. They talk about how Leading Edge has helped them on their scientific journeys, and what makes it a supportive and positively constructive community. Finally, they discuss the most valuable skills for gaining independent positions within academia, and the importance of giving and gaining mentorship.

Ashlan Reid is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Tony Zador's lab at Cold Spring Harbor, which focuses on understanding the neural circuits in sensory systems, where she researches the development of cortical connections in the auditory cortex. Mari Sosa is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Lisa Giacomo's lab at Stanford University, which focuses on untangling the neural circuitry that encodes spatial information, where she studies mechanisms of learning in the hippocampus.

This episode is part of our series "Tools for Looking into the Brain" which is supported by Scientifica, a leading producer of electrophysiology and imaging equipment. In this series we explore research techniques used in neuroscience, including classical and state-of-the-art techniques. You can find our previous episodes from the series on our page- #64, #71, #75, #81, and #88.

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