From Cells to Systems and Applications: Comp. Neurosci. Training at Emory and GT

从细胞到系统和应用：比较。

• 批准号: 8520278
• 负责人: DIETER JAEGER
• 金额: $ 18.02万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8520278
• 关键词: Address; Behavioral; Biological; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biomedical Engineering; Cells; Computer Simulation; Computing Methodologies; DNA Sequencing Facility; Disease; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Epilepsy; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Grant; Individual; Institution; Joints; Link; Medical; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Parkinson Disease; Principal Investigator; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Stretching; Students; System; Touch sensation; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; cohort; computational neuroscience; disease mechanisms study; graduate student; interest; planetary Atmosphere; programs; relating to nervous system; research study; web site

Emory and Georgia Tech have steadily grown the number of faculty involved in computational neuroscience over the past 15 years. The research of these faculty stretch from cellular to systems and theoretical approaches. In 1997 the two Institutions formed a joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, further strengthening the highly collaborative atmosphere between researchers on both campuses. In addition both campuses have a strong track record both in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The proposed training program in computational neuroscience aims to capitalize on these strengths by formalizing an integrated approach to class work and research on both undergraduate and graduate levels. The strong NIH and NSF funded research programs of more than 15 principal investigators identified as computational neuroscientists range from detailed cellular computer simulations of neural dynamics to engineering approaches and the quantitative study of disease mechanisms underlying important disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease using computational methods. Therefore students will be exposed to multiple levels of approaches aimed ultimately at addressing medical questions. A highly qualified and diverse applicant pool for student fellowships under this program exists on both undergraduate and graduate levels, and will bring some applicants with a primarily background in the biological sciences to integrate computational approaches into their research, and vice versa brings more computational or theoretically oriented applicants in touch with biological experimental research. The program encompasses a cohort of 6 undergraduate and 6 graduate student fellows, who will absolve a rigorous curriculum in neurobiology and mathematical and computational methods through a core sequence of required classes as well as individually chosen electives. Undergraduate fellows will be funded for a period of two years in their junior and senior years, during which they will undertake specialized class work and research in a computational neuroscience lab. Undergraduate trainees will be primarily recruited from the Emory Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and the Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering majors, who bring a biological and quantitative strength to the program, respectively. Over 200 students join these majors annually, and we will only take applicants with a GPA of 3.5 or better and expressing an interest in future research graduate training. The graduate students in this program will be recruited from the applicant pools for the Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering programs, which together receive more than 120 highly qualified applications each year. A special track for fellows in computational neuroscience will be announced on the program websites, that will also link to an extensive independent website describing this program. Graduate students will be funded for the first two years of their education, and then obtain individual training grants or be funded by research grants.

埃默里（Emory）和佐治亚理工学院（Georgia Tech）稳定地增加了参与计算神经科学的教师的数量 在过去的15年中。这些教师从细胞到系统的研究和理论 方法。 1997年，这两个机构成立了生物医学工程联合部，进一步 增强两个校园研究人员之间高度协作的氛围。另外两者 校园在本科和研究生教学方面都有很强的记录。拟议的培训 计算神经科学的计划旨在通过形式化综合 在本科和研究生水平上进行课堂工作和研究的方法。强大的NIH和NSF 资助的15多名主要研究人员的研究计划被确定为计算神经科学家 范围从详细的蜂窝计算机模拟到工程方法和工程方法和 对重要疾病（例如癫痫和帕金森氏症）的疾病机制的定量研究 使用计算方法的疾病。因此，学生将接触多种方法 最终旨在解决医疗问题。一个高素质和多样化的学生池 该计划下的奖学金都存在于本科和研究生级别上，并将带来一些 在生物科学中主要背景的申请人将计算方法整合到 他们的研究，反之亦然，使更多的计算或理论上的申请人与 生物实验研究。该计划涵盖了6个本科生和6个毕业生的队列 学生研究员，他们将在神经生物学和数学和计算中免除严格的课程 通过所需类别的核心顺序以及单独选择的选修课的方法。本科生 研究员将在大三和高年级中资助两年，在此期间 计算神经科学实验室中的专业课程和研究。本科学员将 主要是从埃默里神经科学和行为生物学和佐治亚技术生物医学的招募 工程专业的专业，分别为该计划带来了生物学和定量力量。超过200 学生每年加入这些专业，我们只会以GPA为3.5或更高的申请人 对未来的研究研究生培训表示兴趣。该课程的研究生将是 从申请人池中招募的神经科学和生物医学工程计划，共同招募 每年收到120多个高素质申请。计算中研究员的特殊曲目 神经科学将在计划网站上宣布，该网站也将链接到广泛的独立 描述此程序的网站。研究生将在教育的头两年获得资金， 然后获得个人培训补助金或由研究补助金资助。