RESEARCH TRAINING IN VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

描述(由申请人提供)：哈佛大学神经科学计划中的21名神经学家要求继续资助我们的六个博士前职位。培训的重点是研究从视网膜到大脑的视觉通路，以及视觉系统的细胞、分子和发育神经生物学。教员分布在大学的各个角落。医学院基础科学系有11名教员，医院实验室有6名教职员工，文理学院有4名教职员工。在过去的15年里，哈佛大学大大增加了研究视觉科学的分子、发育和神经系统方法的教职员工数量。学生可以在一个庞大的视觉研究社区中选择实验室，他们中的大多数都隶属于NEI视觉研究核心助学金。视觉神经科学培训计划的新目标是建立一个更大、更有凝聚力的学生群体，他们在这个哈佛大学范围内的愿景社区中拥有社区意识，并由其教职员工进行培训。这笔助学金将支持三名选择了学位论文实验室的二年级和三年级学生，但高级学生仍积极参与该项目。这就产生了一大批附属学生。我们通过课程、论文委员会、研讨会、座谈会、培训资助项目以及我们的“系统-愿景”杂志俱乐部对这些学生进行培训和指导。因此，在整个研究生职业生涯中，实习生都会与教职员工以及彼此之间进行互动。许多视觉科学家每年都会访问哈佛大学，举办研讨会；各级受训人员都会在午餐和实验室访问中与他们互动。通过这些活动，我们将帮助培养新一代视觉科学家，他们的科学生涯将帮助我们了解视觉系统的各个方面：发育、信息处理和疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Twenty-one neuroscientists within Harvard's Neuroscience Program request continued funding for six pre-doctoral positions within our. Training focuses on the study of visual pathways from retina to brain, and cellular, molecular and developmental neurobiology of the visual system. The faculty are distributed throughout the university. Eleven faculty members are in basic science departments at the Medical School, six are in hospital based laboratories, and four are in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Over the past 15 years, Harvard University has greatly expanded the number faculty members who study the molecular, developmental, and neural-systems approaches to visual science. Students can choose laboratories among a large community of vision researchers, most of whom are affiliated with the NEI Core Grant in Vision research. The new goal of the Visual Neuroscience Training Program is to build a larger, coherent group of students who have a sense of community based in this Harvard-wide vision community, and who are trained by its faculty. The grant will support three students each in their second and third years, after they have chosen a dissertation lab, but advanced students remain actively involved with the program. This creates a large cohort of affiliated students. We train and supervise these students with courses, thesis committees, seminars, symposia, a Training Grant retreat, and our "Systems-Vision" journal club. Thus throughout their graduate careers, trainees interact with the faculty and with each other. Many vision scientists visit Harvard every year to give seminars; trainees at all levels interact with them over lunch and in lab visits. Through these activities, we will help train a new generation of vision scientists whose scientific careers will help us understand all aspects of the visual system: development, information processing, and disease.