Alcohol Research Training in Neurosciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的十年里，新墨西哥州大学（UNM）对酒精的基础生物医学研究取得了显着的增长。目前，神经科学系的五名教师是一个或多个酒精研究校外赠款的主要研究者。其他三个部门的教师有NIAAA研究赠款悬而未决。酒精研究小组已经达到了一个临界质量的资助研究人员与多学科研究合作的良好记录，正在努力采取下一步建立机制，以支持酒精研究培训神经科学（ARTN）计划。如果NIAAA赞助的培训补助金申请获得资助，ARTN计划将利用这些资金为UNM生物医学科学研究生计划招募的另外四名研究生提供三年的支持。第一年的ARTN项目学员将完成一年的必修和选修课程，并在ARTN项目核心或附属学院的实验室进行三次轮换。第二年的学员将参加高级神经科学研究生课程，并准备论文提案。第三年的受训人员将开始他们的论文研究与核心教员，并将申请F-31奖，以支持他们的博士前培训经验的其余部分。 Drs. Perrone-Bizzozero（作为PI），Allan，考德威尔，Valenzuela和Savage，所有神经科学系的教员，将组成ARTN项目核心教员指导委员会。UNM的其他11个学院将作为附属学院。神经科学系有着悠久的历史，有效的教学和研究互动的一组教师在研究培训的不同背景。在过去的四年里，该部门已经聘请了三名新的初级教师，翻新了大部分实验室空间，建立了一个为期两年的高级神经科学研究生课程周期，并将其研究收入翻了一番。为了支持这一培训补助金申请，该部门将承诺资源成本分摊教师工资支持，学生学费，费用和医疗保险，津贴补贴，招聘费用和与年度务虚会相关的费用。此外，该部门和医学院将提供ARTN计划学员访问其核心设施，其中包括用于分子神经生物学，功能基因组学和蛋白质组学，神经影像学，神经解剖学，电生理学和行为神经科学研究的最先进的设备。ARTN计划将鼓励其学员充分利用UNM神经科学界的多样性，开展多学科研究项目，这将增加他们在未来成为成功的酒精研究调查员的潜力。

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.