Training Grant in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：罗彻斯特大学视觉科学中心（CVS）的21名教师要求重新支持一个博士前和博士后培训项目，该项目强调视觉研究的两个广泛定义的领域——利用心理物理、生理、生理光学的计算方法和研究使用先进的光学技术来研究视网膜处理的基本问题和眼病的转化研究。培训是跨学科的，特别利用中心独特的技术和智力资源。它涵盖了广泛的视觉基础和临床问题，但强调将视觉表现与潜在的神经机制联系起来的方法。我们要求每年支持六名博士预科学员，他们通常将通过脑与认知科学，计算机科学，神经科学，生物医学工程或光学研究所进入该计划。学生将学习视觉科学的核心课程和高级研讨会，并辅以他们进入该项目的部门的课程。他们参加定期座谈会、研究会议和两年一次的CVS研讨会和秋季视力会议。与课程工作同时，学生在CVS导师实验室完成研究项目，我们要求每年支持一名博士后。博士后的培养非常注重研究。培训经费将特别用于吸引其他领域有才华的科学家参与视觉研究。我们还要求八名暑期本科生研究人员参加我们正在开发的一个项目，该项目旨在介绍学生进行视觉科学研究，并招募学生参加视觉科学的研究生培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Twenty one faculty of the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester request renewal of support for a pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program that emphasizes two broadly defined areas of vision research - research into central visual processing using psychophysical, physiological, and computational approaches and research in physiological optics using advanced optical techniques to study both basic questions about retinal processing and for translational research on eye disease. Training is interdisciplinary, drawing particularly on the unique technical and intellectual resources of the Center. It covers a broad range of basic and clinical problems in vision, but emphasizes approaches that link visual performance to underlying neural mechanisms. We request each year support for six pre-doctoral trainees, who will generally enter the program through Brain and Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or the Institute of Optics. Students take core courses plus advanced seminars in visual science, augmented by courses from the department through which they entered the program. They attend regular colloquia, research meetings and the biannual CVS Symposium and Fall Vision Meeting. Concurrently with course work, students complete research projects in CVS preceptor labs we request each year support for one postdoctoral fellow. Postdoctoral training has a heavy emphasis on research. The training grant will be used especially to draw talented scientists from other areas into vision research. We are also requesting stipends for eight summer undergraduate research fellows to participate in an ongoing program that we have developed to introduce students to research in vision science and recruit students into graduate training in visual science. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The vision training grant provides interdisciplinary training in vision science for graduate students and post-docs of 21 faculty mentors in the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester. It also supports a summer undergraduate research program that attracts students from outside Rochester to spend 10 weeks in the summer working in CVS mentors' labs and attending lectures on a broad range of topics in vision science.