GRADUATE TRAINING IN NEUROSCIENCE

本申请要求支持系统和综合生物学博士前培训，特别强调神经科学研究生培训。培训计划包括神经科学，从研究视觉信息的皮层处理，突触传递的分子生物学和基因表达的神经递质调节等复杂系统。该计划的目标是为学生在神经科学的研究事业做好准备，重点是对问题的多维方法。为了实现这一目标，我们组建了一支能够指导开发、生物化学、细胞电生理学、生物物理学、分子生物学、光子学、精神物理学、皮质功能、计算神经科学和大脑疾病分子遗传学等研究项目的师资队伍。这些教师聚集在一起，因为他们对神经科学有共同的兴趣，并致力于为研究生提供教学和实验室培训。我们设计的课程将为学生提供神经科学的广泛基础，我们希望即使他们在神经科学方面的具体研究可能会发生变化，也能在他们的工作中推动他们前进。我们准备了一门学习课程和一系列考试来检验我们在这方面的努力进展。我们有一些机制来促进不同系的学生和教师之间的合作互动，并监督学生在学习课程中的进展。我们认为，这种神经科学博士前培训符合美国联合大会在创建“大脑十年”时明确提出的重要需求。这项法律于1989年7月25日颁布，源于对神经科学研究中许多及时的疾病相关机会的明确认识，并呼吁政府和人民以适当的计划来纪念这十年。神经科学研究生培养计划通过招募和培养能够从事这项重要工作的年轻科学家，确保其在2000年以后的生命，为这十年做出了重要贡献。

This application requests support for predoctoral Training in Systems and Integrative Biology with specific emphasis on Graduate Training in Neuroscience. The training program proposed encompasses Neuroscience from the study of such complex systems as the cortical processing of visual information of the molecular biology of synaptic transmission and neurotransmitter regulation of gene expression. The goal of the program is to prepare students for research careers in Neuroscience with an emphasis on a multi-dimensional approach to the problem. With this goal in mind we have assembled a faculty able to direct research projects in development, biochemistry, cellular electrophysiology, biophysics, molecular biology, photonics, psychophysics, cortical function, computational neuroscience, and the molecular genetics of diseases of the brain. These faculty are brought together in this goal by their common interests in Neuroscience and in their commitment to providing both didactic teaching and laboratory training to graduate students. We have designed a curriculum that will provide students with a broad foundation in Neuroscience that we hope will carry them forward in their work even as their specific research in Neuroscience may change. We have prepared a course of study and a series of exams that will test our progress in this endeavor. We have a number of mechanisms in place to promote collaborative interactions between the students and the faculty in different departments and to monitor the progress of student sin their course of study. We believe that this Predoctoral Training in Neuroscience meets an important need articulated by the Joint Congresses of the United States when they created the Decade of the Brain. This Law, enacted on July 25, 1989, resulted from a clear appreciation of the many timely disease related opportunities in Neuroscience research and called upon both the government and the people to observe this decade with appropriate programs. This program in Graduate Training in Neuroscience makes an important contribution to this Decade by ensuring its life beyond the year 2000 through the recruitment and education of young scientists able to carry on this important endeavor.