PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

纽约州立大学石溪分校的神经生物学和行为学博士前培训项目旨在为对神经科学职业感兴趣的学生提供广泛的培训机会。学生可以从本科培训或通过医学博士学位进入。程序。来自少数族裔的几名学生已经进入该项目，并已毕业或正在取得良好进展。学员在几个方面受益于项目的广度。在最初的两年里，他们要学习非常广泛的神经科学课程，这些课程是按功能（视觉、运动）而不是按传统学科（生理学、解剖学）组织的。在最初的几年里，他们可以在各种各样的研究实验室取样，包括分子神经生物学、细胞神经生物学、发育神经生物学、系统神经生物学和行为神经科学。在选择其中一个实验室进行论文研究后，鼓励他们根据需要与其他实验室合作，使用他们论文实验室没有的技术。在他们居住期间，他们的项目丰富了积极的研讨会项目、期刊俱乐部、年度静修、口头数据展示课程和科学伦理课程。虽然该计划的主要目的是培养学生进行独立研究，但所有学生都必须担任2个学期的本科生物学助教，这为他们提供了宝贵的教学培训，从而增加了他们进入四年制大学职位的吸引力。为了开展这项培训，该项目组建了一支约40人的培训师资队伍，他们分别来自石溪分校的神经生物学和行为学系以及7个不同的系。最近加入该计划的是冷泉港实验室的神经科学小组。开展研究培训的设施可通过参与的实验室获得，也可通过与该计划有关的部门以及更集中地通过大学维护的集中设施获得。学生在《自然》、《细胞》、《神经元》、《神经科学杂志》等期刊上发表研究成果。此外，该项目还成功地将毕业生安置在优秀的博士后岗位上，并有几名毕业生在大学、医学院或学院获得了独立的教师职位。培训补助金的津贴将主要用于支助学生最初几年的教学培训。

The university-wide predoctoral training program in neurobiology and behavior at the State University of New York Stony Brook is designed to provide broad training opportunities for students interested in careers in the neurosciences. Students can enter from their undergraduate training or through the M.D.-Ph.D. Program. Several students from underrepresented minorities have entered the program and have graduated or are making good progress. Trainees benefit from program breadth in several ways. In the initial 2 years they take a very broad neuroscience course organized by function (vision, motion) rather than by traditional discipline (physiology, anatomy). During these initial years they can sample a wide variety of research laboratories including molecular neurobiology, cellular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology, systems neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience. After choosing one of these laboratories for their thesis research, they are encouraged to collaborate as required with other laboratories using techniques that are not available in their thesis laboratory. Throughout their period of residence their program is enriched with an active seminar program, journal clubs, a yearly retreat, a course in oral presentation of data and a course in scientific ethics. Although a major aim of the program is to train students to do independent research, all students must serve as teaching assistants in undergraduate biology for 2 semesters providing them with valuable training in teaching which increases their desirability for positions in 4-year colleges. In order to carry out this training the program has assembled a training faculty of about 40 representing the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and 7 different departments at Stony Brook. A recent addition to the Program faculty is the Neuroscience Group at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Facilities for carrying out research training are available through the participating laboratories as well as centralized facilities maintained through departments associated with the program as well as more centrally through the University. Students have published their research in journals among which are Nature, Cell, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience. In addition, the Program has succeeded in placing its graduates in excellent postdoctoral positions and several have obtained independent faculty positions in universities, medical schools or colleges. The stipends from the training grant are to be used mainly to support students during the initial years of didactic training.