TNDA Seminar- Required.
Psych 298, Course Co-Directors: K. Wassum and L. Ray, attended by TNDA faculty. The biweekly TNDA seminar runs September-June and provides multifaceted training opportunities.
Addiction neuroscience course- required.
Addiction Neuroscience: Emerging Issues & Research in Addiction; Neurosci 215, Course Director: C. Cahill. Organized by the UCLA Integrative Center on Addictions and offered September-June. Experts in the field of addiction neuroscience and/or psychiatry, including TNDA faculty and invited notable scientists (travel supported by the BRI), as well as senior trainees, present lectures in this 1-hr, weekly seminar.
Addiction-focused courses- 1 required for all predocs and 1 for postdocs without prior addiction training
Translational Addiction Neuroscience (Neuroscience C177/C277, Course Directors: C. Evans, E. London, Z. Cooper).
Drugs and Society: Conveying Concepts to High School Students (Neurosci 192C, Course Director: C. Evans). Psychology of Addiction (Psych 162, Course Director: L. Ray)
Advanced statistics- 1 required for all trainees
Each of the following are 10-week, 4-hr weekly courses offered at least one quarter annually. They each provide specialized training in advanced statistical principles and execution.
Biomedical Data Analysis 204
Biostatistics 200A
Psych 250A and B
Psych 259
Stats C236
Stats 240
Stats M254
Trainees with no prior completed statistics coursework are required to first complete a 10-week, 4-hr weekly introductory course, selected from the following
Biostats 100A or 100B
Biostats 110A
Psychology 100A
Data science- required
Take one or more of the workshops from this resource: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCLAOARC
Grant writing- required
The offerings below are each 10-week, once/weekly 3-hr in-person course. They have the common objective of teaching students how to write the research component of a training grant based on their own research.
Grant writing for neuroscientists (Psych 298, Course instructor: K. Wassum).
Grant writing for clinical scientists (Psych 298, Course instructor: L. Ray).
Grant writing (Neuro 211, Course instructor: N. Maidment).
Predoctoral professional development course- required for predocs, postdocs may audit
Academia as a profession (Psych 298, Course instructors: A. Izquierdo and J. Tomiyama). This 10-week in-person (2 hr/session) course offered yearly prepares students for a career in academia and provides exposure to and tools to obtain non-academic careers.
Postdoctoral professional development course- at least 1 required for postdocs
Academic Job Market for STEM & Health Sciences Summer Intensive. This 1-full day intensive helps prepare postdocs for the academic job market. This includes workshops, panel discussions, and feedback on application materials (research statement, teaching statement, diversity statement, cover letter) and job talks.
School of Medicine Junior Faculty Lecture Series. These monthly 1-hr hybrid sessions are a series of panel discussions and lectures on topics such as Running a Lab, Mentoring, Dossiers, Negotiation Skills, Balance Your Life, Research Funding, and Increasing Your Visibility.