Systems and Computational Neuroscience at Emory University

埃默里大学系统与计算神经科学

• 批准号: 7856288
• 负责人: Ronald L Calabrese
• 金额: $ 58.25万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7856288
• 关键词: Systems; Computational; Neuroscience; Emory; University

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We seek to foster and enhance Systems and Computational Neuroscience at Emory University by hiring a new assistant professor with primary appointment in the Department of Biology and adjunct appointments in the Departments of Physics, and Mathematics and Computer Science. A group of 4 NIH supported investigators in the Department of Biology, all of whom do both neurophysiology and computational neuroscience, will serve as the focus group for this new hire. This new hire will strengthen and broaden this core group by providing much needed systems expertise and will foster greater links to computational biologists in the Departments of Physics, and Mathematics and Computer Science and to the greater biomedical research complex of the health science centers of Emory University (principally the School of Medicine and the inter-institutional Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University) through the interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neuroscience (NS) and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and through direct collaboration. This hire would be particularly beneficial to the greater neuroscience and computational biology communities at Emory because systems level research, particularly sensory systems and sensory motor integration is not well represented in our faculty. The new faculty will have his/her lab located in the Department of Biology in space committed by Victor Corces, Chair of Biology on the second floor of the Rollins Research Building (Rooms 2152 and 2158- -1,100 ft2) in immediate proximity to the 4 computational neuroscientists in the Department of Biology. In the Department of Biology (part of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences), tenure track assistant professor appointments are normally for 6 years after which promotion to tenure is considered pending a successful 4th year review. The new faculty member will have limited teaching responsibilities, commensurate with the requirements of the P30 award and will be expected to join the graduate programs in Neuroscience (NS) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) and thus will have access to graduate students as research assistants. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Systems and Computational Neuroscience are growing areas within the neuroscience research community because they offer a synthesis of research at lower (molecular and cellular) and higher (behavioral). Thus these areas will become crucial to our understanding of disease states of the nervous system.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们寻求培养和加强埃默里大学的系统和计算神经科学，现招聘一名新的助理教授，主要在生物系任职，同时在物理系、数学系和计算机科学系兼任。一个由4名NIH支持的生物系研究人员组成的小组，他们都从事神经生理学和计算神经科学的研究，将作为这个新雇员的焦点小组。这名新员工将通过提供急需的系统专业知识来加强和扩大这个核心小组，并将促进与物理系计算生物学家的更大联系，通过跨部门的神经科学研究生课程（NS）和生物医学工程研究生课程（BME）以及直接合作，向埃默里大学健康科学中心更大的生物医学研究综合体（主要是医学院和乔治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的跨机构华莱士·h·库尔特生物医学工程系（BME））提供支持。这次聘用对埃默里大学的神经科学和计算生物学社区尤其有益，因为系统级的研究，特别是感觉系统和感觉运动整合在我们的教职员工中并没有得到很好的代表。新教师的实验室将设在生物系，由生物学系主任Victor Corces负责，位于罗林斯研究大楼二楼（2152和2158室-1,100平方英尺），紧邻生物系的4名计算神经科学家。在生物系（埃默里艺术与科学学院的一部分），终身助理教授的任命通常为6年，之后晋升为终身教授需要等待第四年的成功审查。新教师将承担有限的教学责任，与P30奖的要求相称，并有望加入神经科学（NS）和生物医学工程（BME）的研究生课程，因此可以作为研究助理接触研究生。相关性（见说明）：系统和计算神经科学是神经科学研究界的新兴领域，因为它们提供了较低（分子和细胞）和较高（行为）研究的综合。因此，这些区域将成为我们理解神经系统疾病状态的关键。