NIDA/NIAAA Other Trainee Activities
Trainees have access to and participate in a variety of other scientific and academic activities on the OHSU campus. Activities of our research training program overlap and are coordinated with those of the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC), and the Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center (MARC). Postdoctoral trainees organize and run a monthly journal club attended by trainees and faculty, where current papers are discussed. At a biweekly neuroscience seminar, faculty and postdocs present their ongoing research in a very informal setting. The basic science departments and the Vollum Institute have frequent seminars by outside speakers in a range of neuroscience disciplines, and the training grants and PARC sponsor many visiting speakers each year. Finally, there is an annual 1-day retreat where trainees and faculty present data and discuss programmatic issues.
