Training Program in Basic Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：这是由加州大学戴维斯分校11个学术部门的40名神经科学家共同发起的Ruth L.Kirchstein机构博士前培训计划的修订申请。该计划的目标是为入学学生提供广泛的神经科学基本原理培训，为他们在高年级进行专业研究奠定坚实的基础，并为他们在未来的职业生涯中建立成功的神经科学独立研究计划提供必要的广阔视角。该计划将在加州大学戴维斯分校现有的神经科学跨部门研究生计划的支持下进行，该计划提供了满足我们培训目标所需的范围和灵活性。 培训计划要求为咨询委员会每年挑选的6名博士前实习生提供支持。受训者将获得为期一年的资助，通常是在他们的第一年。内部支持机制和其他外部赠款将与这一计划相配合，用于支持剩余的3-4年高级培训。学员将参加一项专门设计的教学计划，以尽可能广泛地接触现代神经科学的分支学科和技术，包括细胞和分子神经科学、神经解剖学和神经生理学、神经遗传学、系统神经科学、认知神经科学、计算神经科学和建模、疾病的神经生物学以及行为的中枢神经机制。 受训者将通过正式的课程作业、研讨会和实验室轮换接受严格的基础培训，并将参加定期口头陈述的学术讨论会。因此，学生们将为他们的论文研究和未来在基础和疾病相关的神经科学研究中独立的职业做好充分的准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for a jointly sponsored Ruth L. Kirchstein Institutional Predoctoral Training Program grant from 40 neuroscientists across 11 academic departments at the University of California, Davis. The goal of the program is to provide a broad training in the fundamental principles of neuroscience for entering students that will lay solid foundations for their specialized research in advanced years and provide them with the broad perspective essential for their establishing successful independent research programs in neuroscience in their future careers. The program will operate under the auspices of the existing interdepartmental graduate program in neuroscience at UC Davis which offers the scope and flexibility needed to meet our training objectives. The Training Program requests support for 6 predoctoral trainees to be selected annually by an Advisory Committee. Trainees will receive one year of support from the grant, typically in their first year. Internal support mechanisms and other extramural grants, that will be meshed with this program, will be used for support of the remaining -3-4 years of advanced training. Trainees will participate in a teaching program especially designed to give exposure to as broad a range of modern neuroscience subdisciplines and technologies as possible including cellular and molecular neuroscinece, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, neurogenetics, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuronscience and modeling, the neurobiology of disease, and central neural mechanisms of behavior. Trainees will receive a rigorous basic training through formal course work, seminars and laboratory rotations and will participate in colloquia in which they will be expected regularly to make oral presentations. Students will thus be well-prepared for their dissertation research and for future, independent careers in basic and disease-related neuroscience research.