The Trainee Podcast

The Trainee Podcast

Learn realistic strategies to navigate your own sticky research advisor situations.

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About the Podcast

The Trainee Podcast: Build Your Research Community is a companion follow-up podcast to our free online course, Build Your Research Community, which explores mentoring relationships in science. This seven-episode podcast dives deeper into advanced mentor-mentee dynamics, offering insights from 12 diverse experts to help you collaborate more effectively with your Principal Investigator (PI). Through thoughtful conversations, it provides concrete strategies for navigating career transitions, exploring career paths with your advisor, receiving and responding to feedback, resolving conflicts, and aligning expectations—empowering you to build a strong, productive research partnership.

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Episode Guide

This podcast covers advanced topics in mentor-mentee relationships so that you can work with your PI in the most effective way possible. There are 7 episodes and 12 experts on mentor-mentee relationships. Click on the episode titles to listen to it on Spotify.

Episode 1: Building Bridges: Finding Your “Ideal” Mentor-Mentee Relationship
Episode 2: Crossroads Ahead: Strategies to Successfully Transition Through Career Stages
Episode 3: Exploring Careers with Your Advisor: From Interests to Action
Episode 4: Receiving and Responding to Feedback on Your Research
Episode 5: Finding Common Ground: Resolving Conflicts with Your Advisor
Episode 6: Communicating to Align Expectations and Self-Advocate
Episode 7: Advisor Insights: What are they thinking?

Names in alphabetical order.

Guests

Joseph Ayoob, Ph.D.
Sherilynn Black, Ph.D.
Daniel Colón-Ramos, Ph.D.
Mónica Feliú Mójer, Ph.D.
Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, Ph.D.
Jennysue Kasiah
Lorenzo Lones, Ph.D.
Ushma Neill, Ph.D.
Nathan Nhat Nguyen, Ph.D.
Fátima Sancheznieto, Ph.D.
Ryan Valdez
Ron Vale, Ph.D.

Host

Alexandra Schnoes, Ph.D.

Interviewers

Sarah Goodwin, Ph.D.
Thi Nguyen, Ph.D.
Alexandra Schnoes, Ph.D.
Rosa Veguilla, Ph.D.

Producers

Alexandra Schnoes, Ph.D.
Rosa Veguilla, Ph.D.

Podcast Development Team

Shannon Behrman, Ph.D.
Janet Branchaw, Ph.D.
Amanda Butz, Ph.D.
Sarah Goodwin, Ph.D.
Elliot Kirschner
Alexandra Schnoes, Ph.D.
Rosa Veguilla, Ph.D.

Editor

Lee Rossoff

Graphics

Alrightnice

Technical Lead

Daniel McQuillen

Funding

This course has been developed with support from a National Institute for General Medical Sciences grant (R25GM139147).

Citing this Podcast

Schnoes, A.M., Veguilla, R., Behrman, S.L., Nguyen, T.A., Branchaw, J.L., Butz, A.R., Rossoff, L., Goodwin, S.S., The Trainee Podcast: Build Your Research Community. iBiology Courses. May 2024. https://courses.ibiology.org/catalog/TTP/SP/