Predoctoral Training in Intergrative Neuroscience

综合神经科学博士前培训

• 批准号: 8263417
• 负责人: Karen N Gale
• 金额: $ 36.11万
• 依托单位: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8263417
• 关键词: Neurosciences; Training; pre-doctoral

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences (IPN) at Georgetown University is a broad-based, transdisciplinary, non-departmental program leading to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The program, established in 1994, trains students in the scholarly pursuit of research in integrative neuroscience, from the cell to the intact behaving organism. The 32 core training faculty and 20 supporting faculty are drawn from 14 clinical and basic science departments on the Main Campus and Medical Center; they span a breadth of inquiry, ranging from neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction, to behavior and human disease. Areas of research strengths include 1) neural injury, degeneration, and plasticity; 2) synaptic modulation and signal transduction; 4) neural substrates of autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, dementias, and addiction; and 5) telencephalic neural networks subserving sensory processing, memory and language. Students gain training in a range of approaches, including molecular, genetic, neurophysiological, cognitive testing, computational and imaging techniques. Training Grant funds support prethesis training (8 slots during the first 2 years); research grants and individual fellowships support thesis research. The program enrolls 40-50 thesis and prethesis students. Aggressive recruitment of underrepresented racial and ethnic applicants continues to be a top priority. The training environment fosters interactive, pandisciplinary research of both faculty and trainees. Over 40% of the core training faculty are in close proximity in the Research Building, with state-of-the-art core facilities and custom designed laboratory and office space. Faculty are highly collaborative; students are encouraged to seek co-mentorship between faculty with interfacing interests and complementary approaches. All core training faculty have research grant support and fully equipped facilities for training pre-and postdoctoral students. The recent recruitment of several neuroscience faculty into the Departments of Pharmacology, Psychology and Neuroscience, has expanded the equipment, facilities and faculty expertise available to the training program. The training program includes broad-based didactic coursework, as well as rotations in laboratories of the training faculty. The trainees participate in a seminar series, national professional meetings, journal clubs, intensive laboratory research, and training in several essential professional skills (writing and reviewing manuscripts, grantsmanship, mentorship, teaching, conflict resolution, career choices, oral presentations) and their ethical dimensions. Opportunities for gaining practical teaching experience at the undergraduate and secondary school levels are abundant and encouraged. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed training program is to prepare future scientists for a career as highly creative, inquisitive and productive biomedical researchers. We seek to provide the trainees, who are pursuing their Ph.D. in neuroscience, with broad-based interdisciplinary training relevant to understanding a variety of diseases and disorders of the nervous system. Through didactic coursework, laboratory research, career development skills training, and instruction in the responsible conduct of research, the students supported through this training mechanism will be poised to make important discoveries aimed at preventing and curing a spectrum of neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, dementias, communicative disorders, and addiction.

描述（由申请人提供）：乔治敦大学神经科学跨学科课程（IPN）是一个基础广泛的，跨学科的，非部门的计划，导致博士学位。神经科学该计划成立于1994年，培养学生在综合神经科学研究的学术追求，从细胞到完整的行为有机体。32名核心培训教师和20名支持教师来自主校区和医疗中心的14个临床和基础科学部门;他们跨越了从神经递质受体和信号转导到行为和人类疾病的调查范围。研究领域的优势包括1）神经损伤，变性和可塑性; 2）突触调制和信号转导; 4）自闭症，癫痫，精神分裂症，痴呆和成瘾的神经基质;和5）端脑神经网络subserving感觉处理，记忆和语言。学生获得一系列方法的培训，包括分子，遗传，神经生理学，认知测试，计算和成像技术。培训补助金用于支持论文前培训（前两年有8个名额）;研究赠款和个人研究金用于支持论文研究。该计划招收40-50论文和预论文的学生。积极征聘任职人数不足的种族和族裔申请人仍然是一个最优先事项。培训环境促进教师和学员的互动，泛学科研究。超过40%的核心培训教师都在研究大楼附近，拥有最先进的核心设施和定制设计的实验室和办公空间。教师高度合作;我们鼓励学生在兴趣和方法互相配合的教师之间寻求共同导师。所有核心培训教师都有研究资助支持和设备齐全的设施，用于培训博士前和博士后学生。最近招募了几名神经科学教师进入药理学，心理学和神经科学系，扩大了培训计划的设备，设施和教师专业知识。培训计划包括基础广泛的教学课程，以及培训教师的实验室轮换。受训人员参加一系列研讨会、国家专业会议、期刊俱乐部、密集的实验室研究，并接受若干基本专业技能（撰写和审查手稿、授权、指导、教学、解决冲突、职业选择、口头陈述）及其道德方面的培训。在本科和中学一级获得实际教学经验的机会很多，并受到鼓励。 公共卫生关系：拟议的培训计划的目标是准备未来的科学家作为一个高度创造性的职业生涯，好奇和生产的生物医学研究人员。我们寻求为正在攻读博士学位的学员提供在神经科学，与相关的理解各种疾病和神经系统紊乱的基础广泛的跨学科培训。通过教学课程，实验室研究，职业发展技能培训和指导负责任的研究行为，通过这种培训机制支持的学生将准备作出旨在预防和治疗一系列神经和精神疾病的重要发现，如自闭症，癫痫，精神分裂症，痴呆症，沟通障碍和成瘾。