Alcohol Research Training in Neurosciences

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的十年里，新墨西哥大学(UNM)对酒精的基础生物医学研究取得了显著的增长。目前，神经科学系的五名教员是酒精研究一项或多项校外资助的首席研究员。另外三名系教员还有NIAAA的研究拨款悬而未决。酒精研究小组在接触到一大批有多学科研究合作记录的资助研究人员后，正在努力采取下一步行动，建立机制支持神经科学中的酒精研究培训(ARTN)计划。如果这项由NIAAA赞助的培训资助申请获得资助，ARTN计划将利用这些资金为另外四名被新墨西哥州大学生物医学研究生计划录取的研究生提供三年的支持。第一年的ARTN项目实习生将完成一年的必修和选定的课程工作，并在ARTN项目核心或附属教师的实验室进行三次轮换。二年级的实习生将参加高级神经科学研究生课程，并准备一份论文提案。第三年的实习生将与一名核心教员一起开始他们的论文研究，并将申请F-31奖项，以支持他们剩余的博士前培训经验。 Perrone-Bizzozero博士、Allan、Caldwell、Valenzuela和Savage博士都是神经科学系的教员，他们将组成ARTN项目核心教员指导委员会。UNM的另外11名教员将担任附属教职。神经科学系有着悠久的历史，由一群具有不同研究培训背景的教员进行有效的教学和研究互动。在过去的四年里，该系聘请了三名新的初级教员，翻新了大部分实验室空间，建立了两年一轮的高级神经科学研究生课程，研究收入翻了一番。为了支持这一培训拨款申请，该部门将投入资源，用于分担教师工资支持、学生学费、学费和医疗保险、津贴补充、招聘费用和与年度务虚会相关的费用。此外，该系和医学院将向ARTN项目学员提供其核心设施，包括用于分子神经生物学、功能基因组学和蛋白质组学、神经成像、神经解剖学、电生理学和行为神经科学研究的最先进设备。ARTN项目将鼓励学员充分利用UNM神经科学社区的多样性，开展多学科研究项目，这些项目将增加他们在未来成为成功的酒精研究调查人员的潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Basic biomedical research on alcohol has undergone remarkable growth at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in the past ten years. Currently, five Department of Neurosciences faculty are principal investigators on one or more extramural grants for alcohol research. Three other department faculty have NIAAA research grants pending. Having reached a critical mass of funded investigators with a strong record of multidisciplinary research collaboration, the Alcohol Research Group is striving to take the next step by establishing mechanisms to support an Alcohol Research Training in Neurosciences (ARTN) program. If this NIAAA-sponsored training grant application is funded, the ARTN Program would use these funds to provide three years of support for four additional graduate students recruited into UNM's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. First year ARTN program trainees would complete one year of required and selected coursework and conduct three rotations in laboratories of ARTN program core or affiliated faculty. Second-year trainees would take upper level neuroscience graduate courses and prepare a dissertation proposal. Third-year trainees would begin their dissertation research with a core faculty member and would apply for an F-31 award to support the remainder of their predoctoral training experience. Drs. Perrone-Bizzozero (as PI), Allan, Caldwell, Valenzuela and Savage, all Department of Neurosciences faculty members, will comprise the ARTN program core faculty steering committee. Eleven other faculty at UNM will serve as affiliated faculty. The Department of Neurosciences has a long history of effective teaching and research interactions by a group of faculty with diverse backgrounds in research training. During the past four years, the department has hired three new junior faculty, renovated most of its laboratory space, established a two-year cycle of upper level neuroscience graduate courses, and doubled its research revenues. In support of this training grant application, the department will commit resources to cost-share faculty salary support, student tuition, fees and health insurance, stipend supplements, recruiting expenses and expenses associated with an annual retreat. In addition, the department and the School of Medicine will provide ARTN program trainees access to its core facilities, which include state-of-the-art equipment for use in the study of molecular neurobiology, functional genomics and proteomics, neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, and behavioral neuroscience. The ARTN program will encourage its trainees to take full advantage of the diversity in the neuroscience community at UNM to undertake multidisciplinary research projects that will increase their potential to become successful alcohol research investigators in the future.