CHEMOSENSORY TRAINING PROGRAM

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请申请在佛罗里达州立大学（FSU）继续进行基础化学感觉研究的培训项目。申请博士前职位4个，博士后职位2个。FSU神经科学计划在感觉系统，特别是化学感觉系统方面有着悠久的高质量培训和研究历史。FSU的培训计划坚定地专注于寻找基础科学知识，所有临床理解都必须基于此。它的特点是在相关的教师和研究方法的多样性，甚至在一个研究者的实验室的多样性的研究观点。因此，该项目为pre- and - postdoctoral受训者提供了不同寻常的机会来探索关于化学感觉功能的重要问题的替代和补充研究方法，并在受人尊敬的、习惯于富有成效的合作的教师的指导下进行。研究方法包括电生理、分子、解剖和定量行为分析。研究支持设施也非常出色；例如，电子，计算机，电子/共聚焦显微镜和摄影专业人员，其设备齐全的设施，都可供计划成员和学员使用。除了其杰出的历史和优秀的师资队伍外，该项目的显著特点是它专注于从几个不同的角度深入和广泛地研究基础机制。受训者有机会获得成功突破知识界限所必需的观点，并获得在外部资助的生产性研究中获得职业所需技能的建议和援助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds for continuation of a training program in fundamental chemosensory research at Florida State University (FSU). Four positions at the predoctoral level and two positions at the postdoctoral level are requested. The FSU Neuroscience Program has a long history of high quality training and research in sensory systems, especially the chemosensory systems. The training program at FSU is firmly focused on the search for fundamental scientific knowledge, on which all clinical understanding must be based. It is characterized by a diversity of research perspectives among the associated faculty and a diversity of research methodologies even within a single investigator's laboratory. Thus, the program affords pre- and postdoctoral trainees with unusual opportunities to explore alternative and complementary research approaches to important questions about chemosensory function, and to do so under the guidance of well respected faculty used to productive collaborations. The research approaches represented in the Program include electrophysiological, molecular, anatomical, and quantitative behavioral analysis. The research support facilities are also exceptional; for example, electronics, computer, electron/confocal microscopy and photography professionals, with their fully equipped facilities, are all available to program members and trainees. The notable features of this program, other than its distinguished history and excellent faculty, are its focus on basis mechanisms studied in depth and in breadth from several different perspectives. Trainees have an opportunity to acquire the perspective that is necessary for success in pushing out the boundaries of knowledge and the advice and assistance in obtaining the skills necessary for a career in externally funded productive research.