Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience

描述(由申请者提供)：此申请申请资金用于在匹兹堡大学建立一个听觉和前庭神经科学培训项目。请拨资源，每年支持两名博士后和两名博士后实习生。虽然在确定内耳缺陷的遗传和分子基础方面已经取得了相当大的进展，但中枢性听力和平衡障碍的生物学基础仍然很难理解。拟议的计划旨在培养能够通过基础神经科学以及听力和平衡障碍的临床方面的培训来解决这些问题的听觉和前庭科学家。一个由11名导师组成的小组将组成培训教师，他们致力于听觉和前庭神经科学研究，并招募和培养优秀的博士后和博士后研究员。受训者采用的研究方法从细胞和分子到发育再到系统和认知，因此受训者可以在他们的实验中融入各种不同的技术。除了进行研究外，学员还将参加一门专注于前庭和听觉神经科学的专门课程，参加每周一次的期刊俱乐部，并参加一系列专业发展研讨会，这些研讨会提供书面和口头交流、获得工作和拨款、教学和管理研究实验室等“生存技能”的明确培训。所有学员必须提交一份奖学金申请，作为项目的一部分，其撰写将通过与提供建议和指导的当地委员会的定期会议来促进。负责任的科学行为培训是专业发展讲习班、核心课程和实验室培训的组成部分。已经建立了一个坚实的结构来指导受训人员并监测他们在整个计划中的进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to establish a training program in auditory and vestibular neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Resources to support two predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year are requested. While considerable progress has been made in identifying the genetic and molecular bases of inner ear deficits, the biological bases of centrally-generated hearing and balance disorders are still hardly understood. The proposed program is intended to generate auditory and vestibular scientists who can address these problems, through training in basic neuroscience and the clinical aspects of hearing and balance disorders. A group of eleven preceptors who are committed to auditory and vestibular neuroscience research and to recruit and educate outstanding pre- and postdoctoral fellows will comprise the training faculty. The research methodology employed by the preceptors ranges from cellular and molecular to developmental to systems and cognition, such that trainees can incorporate a variety of different techniques in their experiments. In addition to conducting research, trainees will take a specialized course focused on vestibular and auditory neuroscience, attend weekly journal clubs, and participate in a series of professional development workshops that provide explicit training in such "survival skills" as written and oral communication, obtaining jobs and grants, teaching, and managing a research lab. All trainees must submit a fellowship application as part of the program, the writing of which will be facilitated by periodic meetings with a local committee that provides advice and guidance. Training in the responsible scientific conduct is an integral part of the professional development workshops, the core curriculum, and laboratory training. A solid structure is in place to mentor the trainees and monitor their progress through the program.