Early Stage Training in the Neurosciences

描述(改编自申请者提供的摘要)：本程序 将为博士生提供广泛的神经科学早期培训 密歇根大学的学生。它将支持8名博士生在 跨部门神经科学计划在他们的头两年 程序。一旦学生完成了这笔助学金支持的初步培训， 他们在85个不同实验室中的一个进行博士研究 教职员工。约有一半的教职员工担任初级教师职务。 科学系，另一半人担任临床主任医师 各部门。因此，有机会探索各种可能的 感觉神经科学、综合神经科学、发育神经科学和分子神经科学。许多 学生在专门关注以下问题的机构进行论文研究 大脑或感觉系统的紊乱(精神健康研究 Kresge听力研究所、凯洛格眼科中心和 密歇根阿尔茨海默病研究中心)。其他人则执行基本的 生物、生物化学、细胞系的神经科学研究 和发育生物学、人类遗传学、生理学、药理学和 心理学。在密歇根大学的特殊专业领域中 在这些部门的代表是认知神经科学，轴突 引导和神经元分化，突触功能，运动障碍， 激酶和磷酸酶介导的神经元信号转导与药物的神经生物学 滥用职权。该计划的头两年旨在确保 该项目的所有毕业生都接受了广泛的培训。在第一年，学生们 参加为期一年的神经科学原理跨学科课程， 两门强化实验室课程，一门专注于负责任的行为的课程 研究并在至少两个不同的地方进行研究轮换 实验室。在第二年，学生们选修神经科学 课程，参加强化神经科学研讨会课程，完成 他们的实验室轮换，并开始博士论文的初步工作。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Abstract Provided By Applicant): This program will provide broad, early-stage training in the neurosciences to pre-doctoral students at the University of Michigan. It will support 8 Ph.D. students in the interdepartmental Neuroscience Program during their first two years in the program. Once students complete the initial training supported by this grant, they carry out doctoral research in the laboratory of one of 85 different faculty members. About half of the faculty hold primary appointments in basic science departments, and the other half hold primary appointments in clinical departments. Thus, there are opportunities to explore a wide range of possible topics in sensory, integrative, developmental and molecular neuroscience. Many students carry out their thesis research in institutes focused specifically on disorders of the brain or sensory systems (the Mental Health Research Institute, the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, the Kellogg Eye Center and the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center). Others carry out basic neuroscience research in the departments of Biology, Biological Chemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Human Genetics, Physiology, Pharmacology and Psychology. Among areas of particular expertise at the University of Michigan that are represented in these departments are cognitive neuroscience, axonal guidance and neuronal differentiation, synaptic function, movement disorders, neuronal signaling by kinases and phosphatases, and the neurobiology of drugs of abuse. The first two years of this program are designed to make sure that all graduates of the program are broadly trained. In the first year, students take an interdisciplinary, year-long course in the Principles of Neuroscience, two intensive laboratory courses, a course focused on the responsible conduct of research and carry out research rotations in at least two different laboratories. During the second year students take elective neuroscience courses, participate in an intensive neuroscience seminar course, complete their lab rotations and begin the initial work on the doctoral thesis.