List of training, mentoring, and fellowship opportunities

Below is a list of training, mentoring, and fellowship opportunities to support clinicians and researchers in PD with learning data skills. If you know of any others, please reply to this Topic and I’ll add them to the tables below. I’ve added resources mentioned in a similar Discourse Topic here as well.

Training resource Availability Description
American Neurological Association (ANA) Education Programs) Registration fee A wide range of educational programs for academic neurologists and neuroscientists at all levels.
AMP PD Webinar & Training Videos Open, free Recordings include an introduction to the AMP PD Platform and guidance on how to analyze AMP PD Data
DCN Data Curation Primers Licensed under a CC-BY 4.0. Data curation primers are peer-reviewed, living documents that detail a specific subject, disciplinary area or curation task and that can be used as a reference to curate research data.
Carpentries Workshops Free, registration required The Carpentries teaches workshops around the world on the foundational skills to work effectively and reproducibly with data and code. Workshop curriculum spans data, software and library information.
GP2 Training Registration required to access Online training courses on a range of topics related to Parkinson’s disease genetics.
FAES Academic Programs: Bioinformatics for Analysis of Data Generated by Next Generation Sequencing Registration fee Learn to analyze data generated by a variety of sequencing techniques (such as DNAseq, RNAseq and CHIP-seq) particularly in relation to biomedical applications
Harvard Catalyst Training Registration fee; discounts may be available Training and networking resources for clinical and translational researchers
Genomics Data Analysis Harvard University Registration fee
INCF Training Space Both free and paid trainings INCF Training Space provides informatics educational resources for the global neuroscience community. INCF also collaborates with other institutions to curate KnowledgeSpace, a search engine for the neuroscience community.
MetaDocencia: How to teach programming online Free; registration required An introduction to techniques and good practices to design your programming courses and evaluate students. En Español.
Mentoring / fellowship program Availability Description
ANA MentorLink Membership required MentorLink, the ANA’s online platform, connects you to ANA faculty outside of your institution who have similar career interests to share ideas, professional advice and the insights needed to excel in academic neurology.
GP2 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Parkinson’s Disease Application required An annual stipend plus benefits at the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of Health) and the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2)
GP2 - Underrepresented Populations PhD Program Application required Funding for supervisors from underrepresented groups to hire a trainee who is also from an underrepresented group to pursue a PhD in the genetics of PD or a related subject
MDS LEAP Leadership Program Membership required: competitive application A year-long leadership training program to support the growth, development and success of young movement disorder specialists.
Society for Epidemiologic Research - Mentoring Program Membership required A nine-month mentoring program for society members.
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Hi Camille:
I think it would be really interesting to share the Phd opportunity within GP2, the due date is really soon, but I wanted to share it because I have a collegue that wants to do his phD remotely through Gp2, but he is looking for a supervisor. I talked with @gdp22, who is a great candidate, but maybe we are too late.
If anyone wants to share this opportunity or help me find a mentor for him, here is the link.

Also, within Gp2, there are other opportunities, like a post doc in research in PD at NIH [Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Parkinson’s Disease Genetics - GP2] and other very interesting ones.

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Thanks for sharing these opportunities, Paula! I’ll add them to the table.