PURDUE INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM

为了巩固和扩大一个新的综合神经科学研究生培训计划，本提案要求五年的支持。普渡大学的这个新项目是三年前启动的。它是高度整合的，涉及来自5个学院10个系的28名教员培训师。它提供了神经科学基础的坚实核心培训以及更专业的培训选择，跨越分子，细胞和系统水平，在三个广泛的主题领域。三个主题，每个都提供与心理健康领域的计划和倡议相关的培训，分别是(1)分子信号，(2)发育和可塑性，和(3)行为和认知神经科学。学生与个性化的咨询委员会以及研究生培训委员会一起工作，以确保他们在综合神经科学的基础和原理以及综合专业的连贯训练方面获得坚实的基础。由此产生的课程提供了一个重点和深度的培训，往往只有在更狭窄的项目中才能找到，同时也实现了最好的跨学科项目的范围和广度。该计划的新特点将其与整个国家和国际神经科学企业联系起来。每学期，除了普渡大学神经科学学院提供的广泛课程外，还开设了一门由著名访问神经科学家组成的特殊综合神经科学课程。此外，还提供津贴，供学生前往一流的培训地点学习专业技术。总的结果是一个特别的新项目。它在内容和提供普渡大学的优势与国内和国际上最好的神经科学资源之间的互补性方面都是整合的。在跨学科的普渡综合神经科学项目中训练的学生将在下个世纪为心理健康研究及其应用做出重大贡献。

To consolidate and augment a new graduate training program in Integrative Neuroscience, this proposal requests five years of support. This new program at Purdue University was initiated three years ago. It is highly integrative, involving 28 faculty trainers from 10 departments in 5 schools. It provides a solid core of training in the fundamentals of neuroscience as well as more specialized training options, spanning across molecular, cellular and systems levels, in three broad thematic areas. The three themes, each providing training relevant to programs and initiatives in mental health fields, are (1) Molecular Signaling, (2) Development and Plasticity, and (3) Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. Students' work with individualized advisory committees as well as a Graduate Training Committee to assure that they receive strong grounding in fundamentals and principles of integrative neuroscience as well as coherent training in an integrative specialty. The resulting curriculum provides a focus and depth of training often found only in more narrow programs, while also achieving the scope and breadth of the best interdisciplinary programs. Novel features of this program interlink it with the entire national and international neuroscience enterprise. Each semester, in addition to the extensive curriculum offered by Purdue neuroscience faculty, a special Integrative Neuroscience course staffed by eminent visiting neuroscientists is offered. Stipends for students to travel to premier training sites to obtain skills in specialized techniques are also provided. The overall result is an exceptional new program. It is integrative both in its content and in the complementarity it provides between Purdue's strengths and the best neuroscience resources available nationally and internationally. Students trained in the interdisciplinary Purdue Integrative Neuroscience program will make substantial contributions to mental health research and its applications in the next century.