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Onboarding
How to get started with the Voytek lab.
The lab uses two main communication channels:
- Slack, which is basically a chat-room app
- An e-mail listserve for everyone in the lab
You can request access to both by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. You can also ask any lab member to invite you to the Slack channel.
You can get a code to the CSB 213 lab by submitting the form here.
To work with human data you must complete two tutorials below. Email the pdf results to [email protected]
CITI training:
- Go to: www.citiprogram.org and create an account
- Complete the following courses:
- Social & Behavioral Research Basic/Refresher Course
- GCP – Social and Behavioral Research Best Practices for Clinical Research
- HIPAA Research Privacy
Once you have completed these trainings, you should e-mail the certificates to [email protected]
Voytek Lab website, including publications.
Familiarize yourself with our public code. All essential repositories and resources are public so you won't need to be added to anything. However, if you want to get involved with lab code, just talk to the project lead.
The lab has comprehensive tutorials that we created for a workshop we ran at the 2023 and 2024 Society for Psychophysiological Research conference. These tutorials show you how to use the lab's neural data analyses tools. These include analysis software for analyzing neural electrophysiology, including our "specparam" (spectral parameterization) package which also has detailed tutorials.
The lab also uses a shared Google Drive for sharing some documents. Ask a lab member for access if you need it.
If you're just getting started in the lab, you may find it helpful to build a Personal Development Plan with your graduate student mentor. You can use this template and adjust it for your specific training objectives and projects.
Lastly, there are a lot of great people working on a lot of exciting projects in this lab and you are highly encouraged to ask them about what they're working on. Everybody here is very friendly and likes to talk about what they're doing. Also, don't let yourself be intimidated by science. It's normal to be very, very confused in a computational and theoretical neuroscience lab. Don't hesitate to ask questions if you are confused and if you're working on a big project, try not to feel overwhelmed and take it one step at a time.
Best of luck!