Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求资金在匹兹堡大学建立听觉和前庭神经科学的培训计划。请求提供资源，每年支助两名博士前和两名博士后受训人员。虽然在确定内耳缺陷的遗传和分子基础方面取得了相当大的进展，但中枢产生的听力和平衡障碍的生物学基础仍然很难理解。该计划旨在培养能够解决这些问题的听觉和前庭科学家，通过基础神经科学和听力和平衡障碍的临床方面的培训。一个由11名导师组成的小组，他们致力于听觉和前庭神经科学研究，并招募和教育优秀的博士前和博士后研究员。导师采用的研究方法从细胞和分子到发展到系统和认知，这样学员就可以在他们的实验中采用各种不同的技术。除了进行研究，学员将采取专注于前庭和听觉神经科学的专业课程，参加每周杂志俱乐部，并参加一系列的专业发展研讨会，提供明确的培训，如书面和口头沟通，获得工作和赠款，教学和管理研究实验室等“生存技能”。所有受训人员必须提交一份奖学金申请，作为该方案的一部分，该申请的编写将通过与提供建议和指导的当地委员会定期举行会议来促进。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一个组成部分。一个坚实的结构是到位，以指导学员和监测他们的进展，通过该计划。

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.