[Neuropostdocs] Breakfast with P. Bergethon

[Christian Beaulé]

Good morning!

It's the start of a new semester and that means a new series of 
Neuroscience Program Seminars. And with these seminars come the 
breakfast with the speakers.

Next week's speaker is Peter Bergethon, from the New England Medical 
Center. He is also part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate 
(CID), which aims to improve doctoral training. The NSP program at UIUC 
is one of these participants. His seminar title is: "Principia 
Neurologica: Progress towards a Mechanics of the Mind"

This is a unique opportunity for postdocs to voice any suggestions that 
they have to help improve the doctoral degrees offered not only at the 
UIUC, but also in other universities as well. But wait, we're no longer 
students, why should we care about the doctoral program, you'll ask? 
Well, for one, make sure that ANY doctoral training uses the resources 
offered by the postdocs in their department. We are in an ideal 
situation to offer mentorship, advice and guidance to the students (and 
we all do). It would be interesting if those contributions were 
formally integrated into doctoral programs.

If you feel like me that postdocs could contribute to the CID, please 
come for breakfast with the speaker on tuesday, Feb 1st, from 
08:00-09:15 at Courier Café in Urbana. Plus, I think the title of his 
talk is really cool so it's another reason to join!

Let me know if you are interested,

Christian