Neuroscience Graduate Training Program

神经科学研究生培训计划

• 批准号: 8474567
• 负责人: Yishi Jin
• 金额: $ 40.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8474567
• 关键词: Neurosciences; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION: The Neurosciences Graduate Program (NGP) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is committed to training the next generation of neuroscience researchers, clinician-scientists and academicians. Over the past 20 years, the UCSD NGP has become one of the top neuroscience graduate programs in the country, ranked 4th in the nation in the 2010 National Research Council ranking. This training grant supports the first- and second-year students in the program, and is endorsed by strong institutional support from the participating departments at UCSD, the Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. These institutions are world-class research centers on the Torrey Pines Mesa, with the UCSD campus as the home academic institution. The NGP provides the broad umbrella that unites neuroscientists from all these institutions. The NGP provides trainees with a rich curriculum covering a broad spectrum of sub-disciplines in neurosciences, mentored research in the individual laboratories of outstanding investigators, and collaborative opportunities across different programs. The NGP responds to emerging areas of interest; a new formal specialization that expands the scope of training is Computational Neuroscience, added in the past few years. The NGP's training plan is structured such that the students form close interactions with each other and with the faculty upon entry to the program. Incoming students receive intensive hands-on laboratory training through the NGP Boot Camp, which also gives the students a unique bonding experience and initial exposure to the breadth of NGP research options. Following the core courses and three research lab rotations, students choose their dissertation thesis labs at the end of the first year. Each student's progress is monitored through an integrated series of cohesive formal evaluations. All students take a required course for scientific conduct and ethics. Students are enriched through a variety of activities that facilitate and enhance the interactions between students and training faculty. Career advising and mentorship are in place at each successive year. Vertical interactions among students from different years are facilitated through journal club, research rounds, and a prestigious seminar series organized and run by the NGP students, and the annual recruitment and retreat activities. Recruitment and admission to NGP is highly competitive. The program makes dedicated efforts to improve the recruitment and retention of under-represented students; the NGP ranks the top in representation of URM population among the UCSD graduate programs for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). This training grant is central to the success of the UCSD neurosciences graduate training. The research productivity of the trainees is outstanding, and a large fraction of former trainees continue in scientific research and higher education. Over the next five years, the UCSD School of Medicine has set a goal to increase the size of the program through enhanced institutional support, with a strong commitment to improving the program's diversity.

加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)神经科学研究生项目(NGP)致力于培养下一代神经科学研究人员、临床科学家和院士。在过去的20年里，UCSD NGP已经成为美国最顶尖的神经科学研究生项目之一，在2010年国家研究委员会的排名中排名全国第四。这笔培训助学金支持该项目的一年级和二年级学生，并得到了加州大学圣地亚哥分校、索尔克研究所、斯克里普斯研究所和桑福德-伯纳姆医学研究所等参与部门的大力机构支持。这些机构都是位于Torrey Pines台地的世界级研究中心，加州大学圣迭戈分校的校区是其主场学术机构。NGP提供了广泛的保护伞，将所有这些机构的神经科学家团结在一起。NGP为学员提供丰富的课程，涵盖神经科学中广泛的子学科，杰出研究人员在个别实验室进行的指导研究，以及跨不同项目的合作机会。NGP对新兴的感兴趣领域做出了回应；一个新的正式专业扩大了培训范围，这是在过去几年增加的计算神经科学。NGP的培训计划的结构使学生在进入该计划时彼此之间以及与教师之间形成密切的互动。即将入学的学生通过NGP Boot Camp接受强化的动手实验室培训，这也让学生获得独特的联系体验，并初步接触到广泛的NGP研究选择。根据核心课程和三个研究实验室轮换，学生在第一年结束时选择他们的论文论文实验室。每名学生的进步都通过一系列连贯的正式评估得到监控。所有学生都要上一门科学品行和道德方面的必修课。通过促进和加强学生与培训教师之间的互动的各种活动，学生得到了丰富。职业咨询和指导在每一年都到位。来自不同年级的学生之间的垂直互动通过期刊俱乐部、研究回合、由NGP学生组织和运营的著名研讨会系列以及年度招募和退学活动来促进。NGP的招聘和录取竞争非常激烈。该计划致力于改善招收和留住人数不足的学生的情况；NGP在加州大学圣迭戈分校STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)研究生课程中，URM人口的代表性排名第一。这笔培训补助金是加州大学圣迭戈分校神经科学研究生培训成功的关键。学员的研究生产力突出，很大一部分原学员继续从事科研和高等教育。在接下来的五年里，加州大学圣迭戈分校医学院制定了一个目标，通过加强机构支持来扩大该计划的规模，并坚定地致力于改善该计划的多样性。