There will be no Neuroscience Program Seminar on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025.

NOTE ROOM CHANGE - Beckman 2269 - 2nd Floor Tower Room

All NSP Graduate Students are invited to a special meeting and workshop.  This will be a time to discuss various issues, concerns, and provide support to our students during these rapidly changing times.

Additional information will be sent out to the students.

Since its inception over 30 years ago, fMRI brain imaging has had remarkable influence on research and society. However, since fMRI images require complex statistical analyses, interpretational and statistical errors are common, leading to stagnation and consternation into the field. In this seminar it is demonstrated how dropping common assumptions can allow task-based fMRI to provide extremely reliable temporal and spatial information that can lead to detailed cognitive theories and generation of hypotheses for future studies, with strong potential for clinical applications.

Extracellular vesicles represent an important mechanism for intercellular communication, yet our understanding of the biosynthesis, detection, and characterization of EVs continues to emerge.

The mission of the Beckman Institute EVIT Working Group is to bring together our university community focused on the investigation of EVs in the context of both health and disease. Our vision is to introduce innovation into the traditional workflow of isolating and characterizing EVs, which requires synergistic efforts from faculty in multiple disciplines. 

This workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty, as well as become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois. The poster session will provide an informal venue for exploring new collaborations. All faculty, staff, postdoctoral students, graduate students, and interested members of the public are welcome to join us for this half day workshop. 

See the full agenda and register by April 9.

https://neuroscience.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/Big10%20April%202025%20Purdue.pdf

This workshop will provide a forum to discuss strategies for graduate faculty to continue their graduate student mentoring and support during challenging times. Discussions will focus on maintaining a positive yet honest attitude, conducting difficult conversations with transparency, pivoting research directions when needed, and adapting training plans for timely graduation. Facilitated by Associate Dean Zeynep Madak-Erdogan.

This is an in-person only workshop held in Graduate College (507 E. Green Street, Champaign), Room 202. Register here!

For additional events for faculty and staff, see the full calendar of events. 

An effective interview should demonstrate why you're a good fit for a role and leave the interviewers excited about the prospect of working with you.  But actually achieving this goal can be a challenge. In this workshop, we'll discuss strategies for preparing yourself for job interviews, and techniques for answering different types of questions by telling your professional story in compelling ways.

No registration required. This session is available online at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace

See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops

*If you require any disability-related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu

If you're graduating in the coming year and want a faculty job, you need to start preparing now. This summer is a crucial time to get organized and prepare application materials. Join us for this workshop to get tips on how to get ready for a faculty job search this fall. The workshop will address how the faculty job search process works, all of the application documents you will need to prepare, how to stay organized during the search, and more. We will also address how changing policy and economic landscapes might affect the 2025 academic job search.

No registration required. This workshop will take place in person at the Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign) and on Zoom at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace

See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops

*If you require any disability related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu