Neuroscience Training Program at UC Berkeley

项目摘要 伯克利的T32神经科学培训计划(NTP)寻求提供基础广泛的神经科学博士学位 培训，强调先进的研究方法和量化方法。我们的60岁培训 教员来自12个系，从分子到认知神经科学，新方法开发， 以及与疾病相关的研究。NTP为神经科学博士项目的1-2年级学生提供支持 (伯克利分校最大的专注于神经科学的学生)加上另外3个博士学位中的较小数量 在我们的教员实验室进行培训的项目。 我们的计划提供从分子到思维的广泛的神经科学培训。我们 结合灵活的课程安排、严格的研究培训、量化技能和主要关注高级 研究方法。我们有一个多学科的神经科学方法，利用伯克利的深度 分子和细胞生物学、物理和计算科学、工程学和心理学方面的专业知识。 我们需要分子细胞、电路系统和认知神经科学方面的课程，外加选修课。 计算神经科学。我们需要实验室轮换和论文研究，一双实验靴 一个新的定量训练营，教授编程、数据分析和统计。我们的核心 能力课介绍主要的实验方法，培养学生的严谨性和重复性， 实验设计，科学和拨款撰写，科学谈话技巧，以及负责任的研究行为。 研讨会系列，多个实验室的研究会议和杂志俱乐部，以及一年一度的校园静修活动 大量接触神经科学研究。资格考试包括一份国立卫生研究院助学金式的论文提案。 研究、对提案的口头辩护，以及对广泛的基础问题的检查 神经科学。学生在2年级结束时完成个人发展计划(IDP)。 一个多层次的咨询系统提供广泛的科学和职业咨询。我们努力为您提供 一个包容的、支持性的研究环境。我们每年都会进行计划评估，以指导改进。 对于此次续订，我们增加了重要的更新-启动我们的Quantity Boot Camp，增加了更多 实验设计和科学严谨，重组我们的咨询结构，提供更多积极的学生 提供建议和支持，为NTP教师增加必要的导师培训，并扩大职业发展 资源。我们相信，这一培训计划将培养出将做出重大发现的科学家 尖端技术，并将这些发现转化为人类神经疾病的解决方案。 该培训项目不仅面向T32级学生，也面向所有神经科学博士项目 学生，它的活动对伯克利任何神经科学方向的学生开放。这为NTP提供了 临界质量和广泛影响，接触到大量学生并协同神经科学培训 适用于多个博士项目的学生。

Project Summary The T32 Neuroscience Training Program (NTP) at Berkeley seeks to provide broad-based neuroscience PhD training, with an emphasis on advanced research methods and quantitative approaches. Our 60 training faculty are from 12 departments and span molecular to cognitive neuroscience, new methods development, and disease-related research. The NTP supports Year 1-2 students from the Neuroscience PhD Program (the largest pool of neuroscience-focused students at Berkeley) plus a smaller number from 3 additional PhD programs who train in our faculty laboratories. Our program provides training across a wide range of neuroscience from molecules to mind. We combine flexible coursework, rigorous research training, quantitative skills, and a major focus on advanced research methods. We have a multi-disciplinary approach to neuroscience that leverages Berkeley’s deep expertise in molecular and cell biology, physical and computational sciences, engineering and psychology. We require coursework in molecular-cellular, circuit-systems, and cognitive neuroscience, plus optional computational neuroscience. We require laboratory rotations and thesis research, an Experimental Boot Camp, and a new Quantitative Boot Camp that teaches programming, data analysis and statistics. Our core competency classes introduce major experimental methods and train students in rigor and reproducibility, experimental design, scientific and grant writing, scientific talk skills, and responsible conduct of research. Seminar series, multi-lab research meetings and journal clubs, and an annual campus-wide retreat provide rich exposure to neuroscience research. A qualifying exam includes an NIH grant-style proposal for thesis research, oral defense of the proposal, and examination on a broad set of foundational questions in neuroscience. Students complete an individual development plan (IDP) at the end of Year 2. A multi-tiered advising system provides extensive scientific and career advising. We strive to provide an inclusive, supportive research climate. We conduct yearly program evaluations to guide improvements. For this renewal, we add important updates—launching our Quantitative Boot Camp, adding more training in experiment design and scientific rigor, reorganizing our advising structure to provide more active student advising and support, adding required mentor training for NTP faculty, and expanding career development resources. We believe this training program will produce scientists who will make important discoveries with cutting-edge technology, and translate these discoveries into solutions for human neurological disease. This training program is followed not just by T32 students, but by all Neuroscience PhD program students, and its activities are open to any neuroscience-oriented student at Berkeley. This gives the NTP critical mass and broad impact, reaching a large number of students and synergizing neuroscience training for students across many PhD programs.