<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a087d032-7fff-07d2-64cd-a5d87de4c554"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear fellow neuroimagers,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Registration is now open for the eighth round of the OHBM Online International Mentoring Program, organized by the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group (SP SIG). The program pairs mentees with more experienced mentors in the OHBM community for (online) mentoring during the 2023-2024 academic year.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The goal of the program is to establish mentoring relationships across the world. Our mentors can provide mentees with insight and support in topics including career development, navigating academia, grant writing, and work-life balance.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are interested in being a mentor and/or mentee, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">please fill out this </span><a href="https://forms.gle/hqcALjvRCM9FbHxS9" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">short intake form</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and you will be contacted with further details. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Applications close on Monday 16th October, 2023 (23:59 Pacific Time)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Feel free to distribute this email to your networks. Based on feedback from previous rounds, we have a lot of interest for mentors in industry roles. Hence, we encourage scientists working in industry to apply as mentors for our program.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Continuation of the OHBM SP SIG Fellowship Program</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are also continuing our OHBM Fellowship Program for 2023-2024 after our successful pilot in 2022 - 2023. The aim of this Fellowship program is to provide tailored support to people coming from underrepresented communities based on - but not limited to - age, culture, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, political beliefs, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status in line with the </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3846" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">OHBM Code of Conduct</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. It will include all the benefits of our Mentoring Program, plus additional peer-mentoring sessions, online platform to interact with other Fellows, highlighting of your profile on media platforms and/or blogs, and more. For this second year, the OHBM Fellowship Program will take a select number of Ph.D students contingent on available resources, please use the final question of the </span><a href="https://forms.gle/hqcALjvRCM9FbHxS9" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">regular intake form</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> to apply.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To find out more about the Mentoring Program, please visit the </span><a href="https://www.ohbmtrainees.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">OHBM Student and Postdoc SIG website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and check out our publication in the </span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.14320" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">European Journal of Neuroscience</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href="mailto:ohbmtrainees.mentorship.program@gmail.com">ohbmtrainees.mentorship.program@gmail.com</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We would like to thank all the OHBM mentors and mentees who participated in the previous seven rounds of the Mentoring Program. We hope to welcome you in the upcoming round very soon!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Best regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>