Postdoctoral Training in Vision Research

摘要 我们建议设立院校培训补助金，以培训8名博士后研究员，从事基础、临床和康复工作 在Smith-Kettlewell眼科研究所（SKERI）进行与平移视觉研究相关的科学。 18名教师的专业知识涵盖了空间和双目视觉，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， 可用于培养博士后研究员。该奖学金计划的目标是过渡博士后 研究员在2年研究金结束时走向独立的研究生涯。为此，该方案 鼓励研究员与导师合作开发独立的研究项目，以测试和 磨练这些想法，并将其提炼成一份拨款申请。培训还将为严谨性提供坚实的基础 和可重复性，负责任地进行研究，以及频繁和广泛的研讨会， 期刊俱乐部和学术讨论会。因为绝大多数SKERI教师都是全职研究人员， 教学职责和小实验室，研究员经历了大量的直接互动，他们的 提案国此外，研究员还有许多机会与其他研究员进行互动。 教师，其中包括基础，临床和康复研究人员。这些相互作用是由 研究人员都住在同一栋大楼里，都从事临床相关的视觉研究。的 教师与研究员的互动代表了研究过程的所有领域：建议，批评，表现， 通过撰写论文和准备报告交流调查结果，以及 参加科学和伦理研讨会。重要的是，研究员之间也经常接触 通过有组织的活动，相邻的开放式工作空间，以及教师之间的众多合作。的 奖学金计划是SKERI研究活力和能力的重要组成部分。因为SKERI 不是一个授予学位的机构，它的研究人员通常没有研究生。人们普遍 在研究所内部，研究员们为导师的实验室带来了新的想法和技术，这一点受到了赞赏。 培训研究员的过程鼓励教师挑战旧的假设，制定明确的， 简明扼要地说明为什么一个特定的研究活动是有意义的，并扩大方法的范围 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，以及其他来源的个人奖学金， 产生约8-10博士后研究员的整体计划规模。

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.