Training Program In Visual Neuroscience

摘要 该培训计划的目标是为博士后研究员提供视觉方面的跨学科培训。 神经科学。索尔克研究所多年来一直是视觉神经科学社区的所在地，该社区 在方法上高度富有成效和进步，在以下主题上进行了非同寻常的合作 共同的兴趣。这个社区现在由视觉神经生物学中心(CNV)组成，该中心 包括采用各种实验方法的研究计划--分子、遗传、细胞、 系统和计算--并解决构成视觉感觉的神经结构和事件， 感知、认知、视觉引导行为、视觉可塑性、学习、记忆和发展。这个 CNV的12名培训人员共同拥有漫长、多样化和非常成功的视觉记录 对博士后和博士后进行神经科学培训。拟议的培训计划将把 强调跨学科的研究项目，探索视觉系统的组织和功能 跨越从分子到行为的各个层次，解决处理层次结构中的多个阶段 能够理解视功能的病理变化。拟议方案的管理结构 由执行委员会组成，执行委员会由T.奥尔布赖特主任和委员会成员(E.Callaway，R.Krauzlis， D.O‘Leary和T.Sejnowski)代表了我们的研究优势：知觉的神经关联， 神经回路和机制，发育和可塑性，以及视觉功能障碍。培训将会 以一系列现代技术提供，包括电生理学、神经解剖学、功能磁共振成像、心理物理学、 分子遗传学和理论/计算模型。鉴于博士后申请者的高素质 对我们的计划来说，现在和过去学员的持续成功，以及私人资金的减少 在视觉神经科学培训方面，我们请求为四名博士后实习生提供支持，这将确保 维持这一培训，并利用我们由NEI支持的15个研究项目的生产力。

ABSTRACT The goal of this training program is to provide postdoctoral fellows with interdisciplinary training in visual neuroscience. The Salk Institute has for many years been home to a visual neuroscience community that has been highly productive and progressive in its approach, with an unusual degree of collaboration on topics of shared interest. This community now comprises the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision (CNV), which includes research programs that employ a variety of experimental approaches - molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and computational - and address the neural structures and events that underlie visual sensation, perception, cognition, visually-guided behavior, visual plasticity, learning, memory and development. The twelve training faculty of the CNV collectively boast a lengthy, diverse and highly successful record of visual neuroscience training of both pre- and postdoctoral students. The proposed training program will place emphasis on research projects that are interdisciplinary, explore visual system organization and function across levels ranging from molecules to behavior, address multiple stages in the processing hierarchy and enable understanding of pathologies of visual function. The administrative structure of the proposed program comprises an Executive Committee with director T. Albright and committee members (E. Callaway, R. Krauzlis, D. O'Leary, and T. Sejnowski) representative of our research strengths: neural correlates of perception, neuronal circuits and mechanisms, development and plasticity, and disorders of visual function. Training will be provided in a range of modern techniques including electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, fMRI, psychophysics, molecular genetics, and theory/computational modeling. In view of the high quality of postdoctoral applicants to our program, the consistent successes of current and past trainees, and diminishing private funds for training in visual neuroscience, we are requesting support for four postdoctoral trainees, which will ensure the maintenance of this training and leverage the productivity of our fifteen NEI-supported research programs.