Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2002

本行动为2002财年NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金的目标是为少数族裔科学家在学术界和工业界担任科学领导职位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士获得者提供了最高质量的博士后培训机会。这个项目是美国国家科学基金会的一项努力，旨在增加来自代表性不足的少数群体的研究科学家的数量，从而为国家科学事业的未来活力做出贡献。预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来劳动力方面发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和训练计划名为“单个神经元之间的神经信号转换”。该项目解决了谷仓猫头鹰阶段编码的个体神经元的生理和生物物理机制，特别是它们如何编码时间。首先，它将侧重于验证阈下突触前编码在突触后细胞中的存在。其次，确定突触的形态和生理特征。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2002. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare minority scientists for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. This program is an effort by the NSF to increase the number of research scientists from underrepresented minority groups, thereby contributing to the future vitality of the Nation's scientific enterprise. It is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Transformation of neural signals across single neurons." This project addresses the physiological and biophysical mechanisms of individual neurons that underlie phase-coding in barn owls, specifically how they encode time. First, it will focus on verifying the presence of a subthreshold presynaptic code in postsynaptic cells. Second, morphological and physiological characteristics of the synapse will be determined.