Sensory Mechanisms and Disorders

项目摘要 这个培训计划为博士前学生和博士后研究员提供了一个跨学科的教育 听力，平衡和化学感官（HBCS）的研究经验。博士前培训是基于一个 15个学术部门和学位授予研究生课程，其中21个培训教师是 关联的.博士论文研究和博士后研究培训主要在实验室进行 的导师。我们的附属教师在各自相应的学科提供优秀的培训： 生物工程，细胞和分子生物学，遗传学，神经生理学和光遗传学，发育 生物学和感觉加工的生物心理学。HBCS计划将听觉， 前庭和化学感觉研究，与来自这些学科的学员，从而促进 创新的培训机会，进入机制和听力，平衡，味觉和嗅觉障碍。 跨学科的整合是可能的培训计划，通过：a）介绍和先进的 感官系统课程; B）与听力，平衡和化学感官相关的研讨会，由专家在 c）学生和教师研讨会、期刊俱乐部和研究论坛; d） 接触耳鼻喉科的临床研究问题和临床/翻译资源 密歇根大学医学院，和e）在研究标准和道德的培训。此外，学员 项目通常包括来自不同实验室的共同导师， 补充专业知识。有一个强烈强调公平和多样性，这是促进双月刊 为妇女和少数民族学生举行会议。需要为4名博士前和3名博士后学员提供支助。 博士前学员将从培训学院最高素质的研究生中挑选出来， 附属部门和方案。对感觉系统研究的兴趣和动机将是一个重要的 选择标准博士后（Ph.D.，医学博士，或D.D.S.）将从申请人中选出， 致力于感官生物学和有前途的研究背景。

Project Summary This training program for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows provides an interdisciplinary education and research experience in hearing, balance and chemical senses (HBCS). Predoctoral training is based in one of the 15 academic departments and degree-granting graduate programs with which the 21 training faculty are associated. Doctoral thesis research and postdoctoral research training reside primarily within the laboratories of the mentors. Our affiliated faculty provide outstanding training in each of their corresponding disciplines: bioengineering, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, neurophysiology and optogenetics, developmental biology, and biopsychology of sensory processing. The HBCS program integrates investigators in auditory, vestibular, and chemosensory research with trainees from across these disciplines and thereby fosters innovative training opportunities into mechanisms and disorders of hearing, balance, and taste and olfaction. Cross-disciplinary integration is made possible by the training program through: a) introductory and advanced courses in sensory systems; b) seminars relevant to hearing, balance and chemical senses from experts within and outside the University of Michigan; c) student and faculty seminars, journal clubs and research forums; d) exposure to clinical research issues in Otolaryngology and clinical/translational resources available at the University of Michigan Medical School, and e) training in research standards and ethics. In addition, mentee projects usually include a co-mentor from a different laboratory within or across departments to provide complementary expertise. There is a strong emphasis on equity and diversity, which is fostered by bimonthly meetings for women and minority students. Support for 4 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees is requested. Predoctoral trainees will be selected from the most highly qualified graduate students in the training faculty's affiliated departments and programs. Interest and motivation for research in sensory systems will be an important selection criterion. Postdoctoral trainees (Ph.D., M.D., or D.D.S.) will be selected from applicants with a strong commitment to sensory biology and promising research backgrounds.