Christine E. Schmidt

I work with my trainees - a group of postdocs, graduate students, and professional staff who do the hands-on actual research. I work with them on a regular basis in group meetings, team meetings, as well as individual one-on-one meetings where we talk about what they're doing in the actual lab, the results they're getting, and what kind of research they need to do. We work together on manuscripts that we publish regarding our research results in the literature, and I do a lot of editing and going back and forth with my trainees on writing these manuscripts. We do a lot of writing grant proposals, soliciting money from the federal government, the state government, the university, and private foundations that support specifically spinal cord injury repair, seeking out funds to help support this research. I also do a lot of meetings - meetings about research, but also service meetings regarding graduate admissions in our department, serving on other students' theses committees, and professional organizations. I recently got off a meeting for the Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida, which is an organization in Florida that promotes sciences, engineering, and medicine, and I'm on the board there. So it's a mix between working with my trainees, working within the department and the university, and then working nationally and sometimes internationally with professional organizations to help propagate sciences, engineering, and medicine more broadly.