SIMPLE VERTEBRATE AND INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMS

这是一个基础广泛的神经生物学多学科培训计划 在哥伦比亚已经进入了第20个年头。该计划有两个预- 和博士后组成部分。这是一个合作的努力， 解剖学和细胞生物学系以及神经生物学中心 生物学系的三名成员参加 通过中心。神经生物学和行为中心不再是 一个小的研究小组，但现在作为一个焦点， 哥伦比亚的神经科学家。这一变化和随之而来的扩大， 该中心大大加强了哥伦比亚在神经 以理工科为重 该大学还作出了一项重大承诺， 在神经生物学方面的卓越成就。广泛的设施和资源， 解剖学系和细胞学系的学员都可以使用 生物学以及神经生物学和行为中心。虽然 该计划在过去一年中发生了变化，增加了新的招聘人员， 领导层一直保持;原来的高级教师仍然是 参与。新的师资队伍因此增添了活力而没有改变 节目的重点。主要目标仍然是为受训人员提供 在这个项目中，他们将不可避免地接触到不止一个 神经科学的一个分支。代表的子领域包括发展 神经科学，神经解剖学（包括新开发的成像方法）， 神经化学，神经免疫学，神经药理学，神经生理学， 分子生物学、生物物理学和行为分析。培训 该计划有19名教师，他们的研究兴趣具有代表性 现代神经科学的许多主要方法。这些包括 重组DNA技术，膜片钳分析，电子显微镜， 免疫细胞化学，细胞内离子荧光分析，细胞 培养，以及追踪神经元互连的方法， 迁移的神经和神经胶质细胞的运动。最有价值的 培训的一部分是在联合国会员国的赞助下进行的研究。 教师。联合赞助和学员自由流动， 实验室是鼓励和频繁。导师制培训是 辅以核心和选修课程，研讨会系列（在每个 2个参与单位），学员和 教师，期刊俱乐部和年度务虚会的成员。是 建议保持该计划的规模，在4博士后和 2名博士前学员，因为培训机会扩大， 其教师的兴趣是强烈的，大学是如此致力于 计划，它提供补充支持，并申请预- 和博士后的支持也大幅增加。受训人员， 进入该计划已经离开它准备充分，并在需求量很大， 在学术界和工业界的地位。几乎所有受训人员都继续 在生物医学科学中是多产的。

This is a broadly based multidisciplinary training program in Neurobiology that is now entering its 20th year at Columbia. The program has both pre- and postdoctoral components. It is a cooperative effort between the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Three members of the Department of Biology participate through the Center. The Center for Neurobiology and Behavior is no longer a small research group, but now serves as a focal point for most of the neuroscientists at Columbia. This change and the consequent enlargement of the Center have greatly strengthened Columbia's program in the neural sciences. The university has also made a major commitment to continuing excellence in neurobiology. Extensive facilities and resources are available to the trainees both in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology as well as in the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. Although the program has changed over the year by adding new recruits, stability in the leadership has been maintained; the original senior faculty are still participating. The new faculty have thus added vitality without changing the focus of the program. The major goal is still to provide trainees with a program in which they will inevitably be exposed to more than one subfield of neuroscience. Subfields represented include developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy (including newly developed methods of imaging), neurochemistry, neuroimmunology neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, molecular biology, biophysics, and behavioral analysis. The training program has a faculty of 19, whose research interests are representative of many of the major approaches of modern neural science. These include recombinant DNA technology, patch clamp analyses, electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry, fluorescence assay of intracellular ions, cell culture, as well as methods of tracing neuronal interconnections and the movements of migrating neural and glial cells. The single most valuable element of training is research done under the sponsorship of members of the faculty. Joint sponsorship and free movement of trainees between laboratories is encouraged and frequent. Training by mentorship is supplemented by core and elective courses, seminar series (in each of the 2 participating units), research progress reports given by trainees and by members of the faculty, journal clubs, and an annual retreat. It is proposed that the size of the program be maintained, at 4 postdoctoral and 2 predoctoral trainees, because training opportunities have expanded, the interest of its faculty is strong, the University is so committed to the program that it provides supplemental support, and applications for pre- and post doctoral support have increased dramatically. Trainees that have entered the program have left it well prepared and much in demand for positions in academia and industry. Almost all trainees have continued to be productive in biomedical science.