Interdiscplinary Predoctoral Program in Neuroscience

描述(改编自申请人提供的摘要)： 乔治城大学神经科学(IPN)跨学科课程是 基础广泛、跨学科、非院系的研究生课程 神经科学博士。该项目成立于1994年，旨在培养学生 在对综合神经科学研究的学术追求中，来自 细胞的水平与完整的行为有机体的水平相当。32个核心培训 教师和9名辅助教师来自13个临床和基础学科。 主校区和医疗中心的科室。他们跨越了广泛的 从神经递质受体和信号转导到 行为和人类认知。研究优势领域包括1)神经 中枢神经系统的损伤、细胞死亡和可塑性；2)神经营养的调节 因子及其受体；3)液体门控和 电压门控通道，4)内分泌、免疫和脑行为调节 自主神经功能；以及5)服务于感觉的端脑神经网络 加工、记忆和语言。培训补助金资金将用于支持 头两年的博士前培训(4/年)；此后的支持来自 论文实验室或个人奖学金。积极招聘 来自代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的受训人员是 乔治城IPN。培训环境非常适合协作、 教师和实习生的全学科研究努力。超过40%的 培训教员在新研究中心的实验室很近 大楼(1994年开放)，拥有最先进的核心设施和定制 设计实验室和办公空间。大多数教员都有以前的和正在进行的 合作；鼓励学生在教职员工之间寻求共同指导 有重叠的利益和互补的方法。所有培训教员 拥有研究经费支持和设备齐全的设备，用于预科和 博士后。乔治敦认知和研究中心 位于新研究大楼的计算科学已经扩大了 神经科学培训方案可用的资源，在以下方面 设备、设施和教师专业知识。其他值得注意的设施 包括研究资源设施，这是一个完全经过认证的集中式动物 设施，容纳了各种各样的哺乳动物动物物种，和医疗 中心图书馆，全国最先进的图书馆之一。培训计划 包括基础广泛的教学课程，以及实验室中的轮换 培训教员的。受训人员参加了一系列研讨会，国家 专业会议、期刊俱乐部、密集的实验室研究，以及 几项基本专业技能的培训(写作和复习 手稿、资质、指导、教学、冲突解决、职业生涯 选择、口头陈述)及其伦理层面。机会： 在本科和中学获得实践教学经验 水平是充足的，并受到鼓励。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Abstract Provided By Applicant): The Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences (IPN) at Georgetown University is a broad-based, trans-disciplinary, non-departmental graduate program leading to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The program, established in 1994, aims to train students in the scholarly pursuit of research in integrative neuroscience, from the level of the cell to that of the intact behaving organism. The 32 core training faculty and 9 supporting faculty are drawn from 13 clinical and basic science departments on the Main Campus and Medical Center. They span a breadth of inquiry, ranging from neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction, to behavior and human cognition. Areas of research strengths include 1) neural injury, cell death, and plasticity in the CNS; 2) regulation of neurotrophic factors and their receptors; 3) synaptic modulation by liquid-gated and voltage-gated channels, 4) brain-behavior regulation of endocrine, immune and autonomic function; and 5) telencephalic neural networks subserving sensory processing, memory and language. The Training Grant funds will support the first 2 years of predoctoral training (4/year); thereafter support comes from the thesis laboratory or individual fellowships. Aggressive recruitment of trainees from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups is a top priority of the Georgetown IPN. The training environment is ideal for collaborative, pandisciplinary research efforts of both faculty and trainees. Over 40% of the training faculty have their laboratories in close proximity in the New Research Building (opened in 1994), with state-of-the-art core facilities and custom designed laboratory and office space. Most faculty have previous and ongoing collaborations; students are encouraged to seek co-mentorship between faculty with overlapping interests and complementary approaches. All training faculty have research grant support and fully equipped facilities for training pre- and post-doctoral students. The Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, located in the New Research Building, has expanded the resources available to the neuroscience training program, in terms of equipment, facilities and faculty expertise. Other noteworthy facilities include the Research Resources Facility, a fully accredited, centralized animal facility housing a wide variety of mammalian animal species, and the Medical Center Library, one of the most advanced in the nation. The training program includes broad-based didactic coursework, as well as rotations in laboratories of the training faculty. The trainees participate in a seminar series, national professional meetings, journal clubs, intensive laboratory research, and training in several essential professional skills (writing and reviewing manuscripts, grantmanship, mentorship, teaching, conflict resolution, career choices, oral presentations) and their ethical dimensions. Opportunities for gaining practical teaching experience at the undergraduate and secondary school levels are abundant and encouraged.