Postdoctoral Training in Vision Research

摘要 我们提议设立一项机构培训补助金，培训8名博士后基础、临床和康复方面的研究员 史密斯-凯特尔韦尔眼科研究所(SKERI)与翻译视觉研究相关的科学。 18名教师，他们的专业知识涵盖空间和双目视觉、眼球运动、斜视、 中心视力丧失、低视力和失明康复、计算机视觉和辅助技术 可用于培训博士后研究员。该奖学金项目的目标是向博士后过渡 研究员在他们的两年奖学金结束时转向独立的研究事业。为此，该方案 鼓励研究员与导师合作开发一个独立的研究项目，以测试和 磨练这些想法，并将它们提炼成一份拨款提案。培训还将提供严谨的坚实基础 和可重复性以及负责任地开展研究以及频繁和广泛的研讨会， 杂志俱乐部和座谈会。因为SKERI的绝大多数教员都是全职研究人员，没有 在教学任务和小型实验室中，研究员们与他们的 赞助商。此外，研究员还为他们提供了许多与其他成员互动的机会 教职员工，包括基础、临床医生和康复研究人员。这些交互是由 研究人员都住在同一栋楼里，都从事临床相关的视力研究。这个 教员与同事的互动代表了研究过程的所有领域：建议、批评、绩效和 通过撰写论文和准备陈述以及 参加科学和伦理研讨会。重要的是，研究员之间也经常保持联系 通过有组织的活动，相邻的开放工作空间，以及教职员工之间的大量合作。这个 奖学金计划是SKERI研究活力和能力的重要组成部分。因为斯凯瑞 不是一个授予学位的机构，它的调查人员通常没有研究生。它是广泛存在的 在研究所内部，研究员将新的想法和技术引入教官的实验室，对此表示赞赏。 培训研究员的过程鼓励学院挑战旧的假设，制定明确和 简明扼要地描述为什么某项研究活动具有重要意义，并扩大方法范围 来研究问题。T32计划将大大增加SKERI内部资助的Rachel C。 阿特金森奖学金、C.V.斯塔尔奖学金计划和其他来源的个人奖学金 项目总规模约为8-10名博士后研究员。

Abstract We propose an Institutional Training Grant to train 8 Postdoctoral Fellows in basic, clinical and rehabilitation science relevant to translational vision research at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI). Eighteen faculty whose expertise spans the areas of spatial and binocular vision, eye movements, strabismus, central vision loss, low vision and blindness rehabilitation, computer vision and assistive technology are available to train the postdoctoral fellows. The goal of the Fellowship program is to transition postdoctoral fellows towards independent research careers by the end of their 2-year fellowship. To this end, the program encourages the Fellow to develop an independent research project in collaboration with the mentor, to test and hone these ideas, and distill them into a grant proposal. The training will also provide a solid grounding in rigor and reproducibility and in the responsible conduct of research, as well as frequent and wide-ranging seminars, journal clubs and colloquia. Because the vast majority of SKERI Faculty are full-time researchers with no teaching duties and small laboratories, the Fellows experience a great deal of direct interaction with their sponsors. In addition, the Fellows have available to them many opportunities for interaction with the rest of the Faculty, which include basic, clinician and rehabilitation researchers. These interactions are facilitated by the researchers all being housed within the same building and all working in clinically relevant vision research. The Faculty-Fellow interactions represent all areas of the research process: proposal, critique, performance, and communication of findings through the writing of papers and preparation of presentations, as well as participation in scientific and ethics seminars. Importantly, Fellows are also in frequent contact with each other through organized events, adjacent open work-spaces, and the numerous collaborations among Faculty. The Fellowship program forms a critical component of the research vitality and capacity of SKERI. Because SKERI is not a degree-granting institution, its investigators do not typically have graduate students. It is widely appreciated within the Institute that Fellows bring in new ideas and techniques to the preceptors’ laboratories. The process of training Fellows encourages Faculty to challenge old assumptions, to develop clear and concise descriptions of why a given research activity is of significance, and to expand the range of approaches to research problems. The T32 Program will significantly augment SKERI’s internally funded Rachel C. Atkinson Fellowship, C.V. Starr Scholarship Program, and individual Fellowship awards from other sources to yield an overall program size of approximately 8-10 post-doctoral fellows.