Predoctoral Training Program in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的计划将强调在亚利桑那大学神经科学现有委员会的框架内神经科学的跨学科博士前培训。该计划将在攻读博士学位的最初两年期间为博士前学员提供支持。学位，并将专注于神经科学的基本概念，无论专业化的最终领域是必不可少的。培训教师将由神经科学跨部门委员会的35名成员组成，这些成员是根据他们在研究和培训方面的杰出记录选出的。培训教师在主校区和医学院的18个不同部门任职，这些部门是连续的。在几个学科的研究优势，包括发育神经科学，昆虫神经生物学，运动控制，认知，学习和记忆，言语产生和神经药理学。根据培训教师的规模和他们的研究活动水平，我们要求6个博士前培训职位，提供两年的支持 最有前途的新学生寻求神经科学的培训。所有学员将完成一套共同的核心要求，并可以选择寻求博士学位。通过神经科学跨部门博士课程（所有培训教师都参加）或通过培训教师参加的部门博士课程之一获得学位，包括细胞生物学与解剖学，分子与细胞生物学，心理学，生理科学和药理学。研究培训设施包括各个教师实验室的广泛设备和专业知识，以及亚利桑那大学的综合共享资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program will emphasize interdisciplinary predoctoral training in neuroscience within the framework of the existing Committee on Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. The program will support predoctoral trainees during the initial two years of study towards the Ph.D. degree and will focus on the fundamental concepts of neuroscience that are essential regardless of the eventual area of specialization. The training faculty will consist of 35 members of the interdepartmental Committee on Neuroscience, who were selected on the basis of their distinguished records in research and training. Training faculty members hold appointments in 18 different departments on the main campus and College of Medicine, which are contiguous. Research strengths in several disciplines are represented, including developmental neuroscience, insect neurobiology, motor control, cognition, learning and memory, speech production, and neuropharmacology. Based upon the current size of the training faculty and their level of research activity, we are requesting 6 predoctoral training positions, with two years of support being offered to the most promising new students seeking training in neuroscience. All trainees will complete a common set of core requirements, and may choose to seek the Ph.D. degree either through the interdepartmental doctoral Program in Neuroscience (in which all of the training faculty participate) or through one of the departmental doctoral programs in which the training faculty participate, including Cell Biology & Anatomy, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Psychology, Physiological Sciences and Pharmacology. Facilities for research training include the extensive equipment and expertise in individual faculty laboratories, as well as comprehensive shared resources at the University of Arizona.