Overview

For the second year, CZI Science is offering a training series designed specifically for our Science grantees. These training sessions aim to provide CZI Science grantees and their teams with opportunities to grow and sharpen professional skills, foster collaboration, and learn from experts.

Unless indicated otherwise, the training sessions are open to CZI Science grantees and their team and/or group members, and to partners and collaborators of CZI Science.

• 2023 Central Science Training Series Overview
  
  • Science Communication Series
  • Project Management for Scientists Seminar
  • Faculty Application Bootcamp - Completed 
    
  • Grant Writing for Science Series - Completed
    
  • Science Leadership Series - Completed
    
• 2023 Single-Cell Biology Training Series
• 2023 NDCN Training Series
• 2022 Central Science Training Series Resources
  • Science Leadership and Management Series
  • Changing the Culture of Science Series
  • Science Communication Series
• Additional Resources

Do you have other questions or needs around professional development in science? Contact our team: mcb-science@chanzuckerberg.com.

2023 Central Science Training Series

This year we are organizing three Central Science series to cover the most requested topics from our grantees, including leadership, grant writing, and science communications. The series will take place in the spring and fall of 2023, check back in on this webpage for more details and registration opportunities as they become available.

FACULTY APPLICATION BOOTCAMP - Completed

SCIENCE LEADERSHIP SERIES - Completed

Continue your science leadership development journey with this three seminar training series. Join us as we learn introductory skills that will help you understand your own leadership style and the essentials to  preparing and designing a successful science collaboration. 

2023 Single-Cell Biology

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TRAINING SERIES - Part II - Completed

A three part series that will help researchers establish collaborative research priorities, form Community Advisory Boards, and disseminate your research with a broad scope of audiences. These sessions are open to CZI Science grantees and their team and/or group members, and to partners and collaborators of CZI Science, i.e., the ‘CZI Science Community’. Closed Captions will be available. Please register for each session you would like to attend.


Hosted with UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative 

Trainer: Shanell Williams, Director of Community Engagement and Partnership at the UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi-CA). Ms. Williams has over 22 years of extensive community engagement and community capacity-building expertise. She has deep experience working with diverse communities in the areas of education, economic workforce development, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and racial and gender equity. She has served thousands of Black and Brown families as a public advocate, nonprofit leader, and community organizer. Ms. Williams has over the past seven years launched all PTBi-CA community engagement efforts which include a 25-person community advisory board and community-based participatory research partnerships across San Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno.  While leading the Community Engagement portfolio of PTBi-CA she has been regularly consulted on how to build mechanisms for community partnership with hospital systems, researchers, and academic institutions.  

TRAINING SESSIONS

Research Priority Setting by Affected Communities (RPAC)
Date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, 9am-11 Pacific Time / 16:00-18:00 UTC 
Resources

This webinar teaches about a novel method for identifying and prioritizing
researchable questions in partnership with your affected community. This workshop walks through the RPAC protocol and highlighted the California Preterm Birth Initiative’s (PTBi-CA) partnership with community members and community-based organizations for co-development of our research questions.


Community Advisory Board Formation 101
Date: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023, 9am-11am Pacific Time / 16:00-18:00 UTC 
Resources

Join this webinar to learn the nuts and bolts of launching your own Community Advisory Board (CAB) for your research project. This workshop will walk through the PTBi-CA Community Advisory Board (CAB) Framework and highlight lessons, pitfalls and promising practices learned operationalizing a CAB structure.


Creative and Effective Dissemination: Showcasing the Voices for Birth Justice platform and campaign
Date: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023, 9am-11am Pacific Time / 16:00-18:00 UTC 
Recording and Resources

Join this webinar to learn creative ways for communicating and disseminating your research to a broad/lay audience. This workshop will walk through the PTBi-CA’s communication and dissemination strategies and methods for effectively communicating science to a lay audience. We will also showcase and use as a case study the Voices for Birth Justice campaign.

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT - 2022

Through our 2022 three-part virtual training series, hosted by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, we offered grantees and their teams the opportunity to grow and sharpen their skills around community engagement and supported an environment where researchers and communities of color and historically marginalized communities can seamlessly work together. 

• Fundamentals of Community Engagement Part 1 - Frameworks,
  Hosted on September 7, 2022
  • Recording and Resources
• Fundamentals of Community Engagement Part 2 - Authentic Partnerships, Hosted on September 21, 2022
  • Recording and Resources
• Fundamentals of Community Engagement Part 3 - Sustainability,
  Hosted on  October 5, 2022
  • Recording and Resource

2023 Neurodegeneration Challenge Network

NDCN TRAINING SERIES 2023 - HOW TO BE A STRATEGIC LAB LEADER 

Do you want to work more strategically? Leadership gives you the opportunity to share ideas and influence others. It also requires you to play many roles. To be an effective leader, it’s important to hone your skills in strategic decision making, navigating systems, building community, and effectively supporting your people.

This four-part series explores the principles of setting strategy as an early career investigator, and is designed to facilitate execution of your strategic plan. In this workshop, you will create a strategic plan that incorporates your research, service, and mentoring priorities while considering your well-being. Learn and apply culturally-inclusive concepts through practice and feedback with experts, mentors, and peers. These workshops will require some pre-work such as listening to podcast episodes and watching brief videos about scientists who have successfully set and stuck to a strategy. This series is for scientists who want to improve their strategic planning skills, set boundaries to inform decision making as a lab leader, and communicate and motivate a team.

Hosted by Thi Nguyen, PhD

Dr. Nguyen is a neuroscientist, career coach, freelance consultant, and former associate dean of graduate career development. She practices inclusive learning principles. She has led discussions with scientists at over 20 institutions on strategic planning and career advancement. She earned a PhD in Neuroscience from UT Southwestern.

TRAINING SESSIONS

#1 - Your Strategic Game Plan
Date: Tuesday, August 15th - 9:30am - 11:30am PT 
Recording and Resources 

With all your priorities as an early career investigator, how do you navigate as a Chess player rather than Whack-A-Mole? Strategic planning requires you to define a clear vision of what you want to build in the long term to help you decide what to say yes to. Then, you must communicate that effectively with your team and collaborators who could support you. 

In this webinar, you will:

• Articulate your long-term and short-term goals for your research program
  
• Describe your values that can be used in communicating your vision to team members and collaborators
  
• Define success for your work

#2 - Time Management for the Lab Leader
Date: Tuesday, August 22nd - 9:30am - 11:30am PT 
Completed - Resources coming soon

Now that you’ve set your strategic plan and considered how to communicate and motivate others on your team, how do you put frameworks in place to stay on track? With so much required of early career faculty, it’s easy to get distracted. This session discusses principles in time management and psychology related to prioritizing your projects, defining success, and sticking to your values.

In this webinar, you will:

• Define your goals and align your research and personal projects to those goals
• Explain time management principles that help you be honest with yourself
• Describe psychological barriers to saying no
• Build your time map

#3 - Strategic Collaboration
Date: Tuesday, October 3rd - 9:30am - 11:30am PT 
Register Here

Working with team members is key to amplifying your shared missions and providing mutual support and momentum. This session focuses on identifying the roles that a team member plays, their needs, and the shared goals. We will also discuss communicating expectations for an effective and inclusive partnership.

In this webinar, you will:

• Identify the gaps in your projects that you wish to fill through collaboration (including gaps in finances, talent, technology)
• Define the role that others play either as collaborators, partners, or employees
• Create a map of potential partners and collaborators and consider their motivations

#4 - Cooperative Leadership
Date: Tuesday, October 10th - 9:30am - 11:30am PT 
Register Here

Now that you’ve defined the roles and goals required to execute your vision as a leader, how do you work together cooperatively? Leaders can effectively lead when they can inspire and engage followers. What are the qualities that followers say they most desire in a leader? This session highlights the needs of followers, as identified by Gallup, and how knowing your audience informs your actions. We will also discuss how self-awareness of your strengths can help you be intentional and accountable in building relationships.

In this webinar, you will:

• Define cooperative leadership for your situation
• Explore qualities that followers desire in leaders
• Discuss the role of belonging in team success
• Identify inclusive team practices that work for your lab

2022 Central Science Training Series Resources

Catch up on our 2022 training series with the recordings and resources. Check out the details on each series below and our Wistia page for all video content. 

Additional Resources

MCB Central Trainings

• To help support the CZI community working tirelessly to achieve their goals, become more resilient, and respond to unfolding crises, we've assembled a collection of expert trainings valuable to grantees and their partners across CZI portfolio areas. In these sessions, expert trainers will provide advice on how to best approach these challenges, teach new skills and practices, and answer questions that you and your community may have.

2021 Science Trainings

• Check out our Wistia page for previous MCB Science trainings. 

Open Science Resources Website

• This publicly available resource, supported by the CZI Open Science program, features information on applying open science approaches specifically catered to our biomedical research community. The site contains videos that are also available on the CZI Open Science Resources Channel.

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