Neuroscience Education at Michigan
Supporting neuroscience students and trainees at all levels
Postdoctoral Fellows
MNI Postdoctoral Advancement Program
The Michigan Neuroscience Institute’s Postdoctoral Advancement Program enhances recruitment and training while building a community where neuroscience postdocs can thrive. It has three general focus areas: recruiting, community, and training.
Training
MNI postdocs benefit from career development and training opportunities, including institutional grant-writing workshops, a seminar series for and by postdocs, and chalk-talk opportunities to receive feedback on research ideas. Funds to support travel to external workshops and conferences may also be available.
Community
The Postdoctoral Advancement Program provides a community for current neuroscience postdoctoral fellows working within MNI member labs, offering social, professional, and networking opportunities. The community is funded by MNI and is led by its members.
Join The MNI Postdoc Community
The Postdoc Community is providing a place for Neuroscience postdoctoral fellows. In 2022, MNI established a community for U-M Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellows. Postdoctoral Fellows in any MNI Faculty or Affiliate Lab can register for the community, benefitting both postdoc and their faculty sponsor.
Postdoc benefits:
- Peer support
- Social events
- Professional/career development opportunities
- Access to MNI-sponsored events, including lectures, conferences, social and DEI-related events
- Increased exposure to neuroscience experts
- Opportunities to present their science to a wider audience
Faculty sponsor benefits:
- Eligibility to apply for Postdoc recruitment incentives (sign-on bonuses)
- Increase in Postdoc fulfillment and satisfaction
- Opportunity to network with Postdocs and introduce them to faculty peers
Please contact Executive Director Ravi Allada, MD, for more information.
As the longest-standing Neuroscience PhD program in the country, the University of Michigan Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) has a history of training leaders in neuroscience. The program focuses on excellence in education and training, drawing on the knowledge and expertise of over 120 faculty members from more than 20 departments. The program works across the breadth of the neuroscience field.
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. It is an interdisciplinary field that engages scientists, engineers, and physicians in investigating how the nervous system develops and functions at the cellular level, as well as the mechanisms underlying behavior, cognition, mental disorders and neurological disease. The Neuroscience Major is an Interdepartmental Program managed by the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience (UPiN), which represents a collaboration between the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and the Department of Psychology.
