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Special training activities extend the avenues for trainees to interact and learn beyond traditional classroom courses.Weekly "gas club" seminars
Attendance and participation by all trainees is required. This seminar incorporates topics ranging from neurobiology to respiratory mechanics to quantitative genetics to clinical research. In addition to seminars by visiting scientists and related faculty at UW Madison, this seminar series avails trainees of an opportunity to present their own research at frequent intervals, thereby gaining critical feedback and enhancing their presentation skills.
Weekly journal club and lab meetings
Involve continual participation by trainees and training faculty. There are several ongoing journal clubs and data clubs, based largely on research specialization. There are no barriers to participation in these activities other than time-we have an "open door" policy.
Midwest Regulation of Respiration Conference
Kemp Station July 17 - 19, 2008
We initiated this annual gathering with the beginning of the training grant and it has become a very popular and important annual event. The emphasis of this workshop is on trainee presentation of "in progress" research. Feedback is abundant as research groups in regular attendance come from Madison (trainer laboratories), Milwaukee (Forster and other laboratories), Illinois (McCrimmon, Ramirez, Iwamoto and Prabhakar laboratories) and Minnesota (Sieck laboratory). Two days are scheduled in a secluded setting in northern Wisconsin where trainees, faculty and visiting scientists interact throughout the day and evenings. Each year, training grant funds support a visiting scientist, chosen because of common interests and potential to interact with trainees. Examples of visiting scientists include: Eugene Nattie (Dartmouth), Harry Goshgarian (Wayne State), Frank Powell (UCSD), William Milsom (U. British Columbia), Estelle Gauda (Hopkins), Tony Waldrop (U. Illinois), Allan Pack (U. Penn), David Gozal (U. Louisville), Peter Frappel (Melbourne) and David Donnelley (Yale). The diversity of topics presented at Kemp Station provides an important learning experience for trainees and faculty alike.
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Updated 07/05/2008