Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

描述（由申请人提供）：为了满足对能够为听力科学问题带来创新技能和观点的科学家的新需求，我们将继续在马里兰大学帕克分校建立我们完善的听力比较和进化生物学培训计划。我们团队的14位核心教师拥有非常广泛的专业知识，从细胞和分子生物学到系统神经科学，这些能力使我们能够提供一个培训项目，不仅强调从比较和进化的角度来理解听觉系统，而且还能在不同的分析水平上做到这一点。我们提出了新的方法来培养下一代科学家，他们可以将生物医学科学的知识和方法转化为生物医学科学，从而实现仅在单一学科和使用单一模型系统内无法实现的突破。下一轮的培训计划将促进对转化研究的关注，我们将继续扩大我们的学员对基础研究的生物医学应用的认识，以解决与人类生命周期有关的听力问题，包括听力障碍的预防、诊断、遗传学和相关的治疗干预，核心教师来自5个系：生物学、心理学、语言学、听力和语言科学。还有电气和计算机工程。其他来自马里兰大学其他项目以及NIDCD和其他地区机构的兼职和附属教员与核心教员密切合作，并为研究员提供进一步的研究和培训机会。培养计划包括培养5名博士预科生和3名博士后。博士预科受训者通常处于中后期训练阶段，主要从事研究工作。博士预科支持通常为1至3年。除了研究训练之外，学生还需要学习研究伦理课程，专业发展和转化听觉科学的研讨会/课程，以及参加所有的项目活动。资助博士后研修生1-2年。如果他们以前没有上过这些课程，他们必须和博士前研究员一样，旁听相同的必修课程/研讨会。整个项目的重点是让受训者接触到项目参与实验室所做的广泛工作，并通过这种接触，更好地了解听力科学中所提出的问题范围和应用的研究方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to the emerging need for scientists who can bring innovative skills and perspectives to problems in the hearing sciences, we will continue to build upon our well established Training Program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. The 14 Core Faculty in our group bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise, from cellular and molecular biology to systems neuroscience, and these capabilities allow us to offer a training program that not only emphasizes a comparative and evolutionary perspective to understanding the auditory system, but also does this across different levels of analysis. We propose new approaches to train the next generation of scientists who can translate knowledge and methodologies across biomedical sciences, enabling breakthroughs that cannot be achieved through work solely within a single discipline and using a single model system. The next cycle of the training program will promote a focus on translational research, in which we will continue to expand our trainees' appreciation of the biomedical applications of basic research to solving problems concerned with hearing across the human life span, including prevention, diagnosis, and genetics of hearing impairment and relevant therapeutic interventions Core Faculty are from 5 departments, biology, psychology, linguistics, hearing and speech sciences, and electrical and computer engineering. Additional adjunct and affiliate faculty from other UMD programs, as well as NIDCD and other regional institutions, work closely with the Core Faculty and provide further research and training opportunities for fellows. The Training Program includes support for 5 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees are generally in middle to later training where they are primarily doing research. Predoctoral support is generally for 1 to 3 years. In addition to research training, students take a course in research ethics, and seminars/courses in professional development and translational auditory science, as well as participate in all program activities. Postdoctoral trainees are supported for 1-2 years. They are required to audit the same required courses/seminars as the predoctoral fellows if they have not previously had such courses. Emphasis throughout the program is to expose trainees to the breadth of work done in the program's participating labs, and through this exposure, gain a better appreciation for the range of questions being asked and research methods applied today in the hearing sciences. RELEVANCE: More complete knowledge of auditory system function promises both to solve some of the most perplexing and devastating problems of human health, and cement the design of systems and devices that will transform how we live. Accordingly, the CEBH Training Program will provide in-depth and interdisciplinary training in the hearing sciences that prepares individuals to advance discovery and innovation at the interface of basic science and medicine.