Computing and the Brain: Training the next generation of neuroscientists

我们提出了一个本科生和研究生(NRSA和非NRSA)培训计划 计算神经科学。我们的校园有着丰富的历史和广袤的 在这一领域积极的教学和研究，教师导师分布在许多 系和学院，包括生理学和生物物理学，生物结构， 计算机科学与工程、应用数学、生物、心理学和 生物工程。将支持本科生和研究生教育和研究 促进这一领域的持续增长，加强理论家和 实验者，在定量方法中扩展和整合课程 神经科学，加强本科生和研究生之间的互动， 增加本科生研究机会，凝聚社会力量 以加强我们已经很好的跨学科交流和 协作。 我们的本科培训计划将建立一个为期两年的序列 计算神经科学，每年最多为12名学员提供入门培训， 神经生物学或计算机专业(物理、计算机科学和 工程数学、应用数学和计算数学)。在秋季，学生们参加一个 举办了一系列研讨会，向他们介绍教师的研究。实习生将选择一种常见的 核心楔形包括实验室神经生物学课程和定量课程， 实验室部分通过并行计算课程得到加强。选择 个性化课程中的附加选修课由指导委员会指导。 所有学生将完成至少1个，最好是4个季度的辅导实验室 研究。 我们的研究生培训计划将支持多达6名来自 神经生物学与行为学系间专业或系毕业生 程序。学生将在第一年结束时申请培训补助金支持，并 我的核心课程由两门神经生物学课程和两门量化课程组成 课程。个人定制课程，包括从以下课程中选择的选修课 计算神经科学、数学、计算机科学和物理学将 是在与指导委员会协商后设计的。一个每两周一次的青少年俱乐部将调查 数学和系统神经科学论文，并允许学生研究 演示文稿。学生将有机会在新的计算课程中授课 本科生神经生物学课程。 所有受训人员将参加每月一次的研讨会，并在年度报告中介绍他们的研究。 撤退。 该计划将由ASSOC指导。阿德里安·法拉尔教授，生理学和 生物物理学，以及比尔·穆迪教授的领导团队，他是生物学教授， 本科生神经生物学课程；David Peri&lt；el教授，耳鼻喉科 和生理学和生物物理学；弗雷德·瑞克教授，生理学和生物物理学，前 生理学和生物物理学研究生项目主任兼助理教授Eric Shea- 布朗，应用数学。

We propose an undergraduate and graduate (NRSA and non-NRSA) training program in computational neuroscience. Our campus has a rich history and an enonnous breadth of active teaching and research in this area, with faculty mentors distributed through many departments and schools, including Physiology and Biophysics, Biological Structure, Computer Science and Engineering, Applied Math, Biology, Psychology and Bioengineering. Support for undergraduate and graduate education and research will foster the ongoing growth of this area, enhance interaction between theorists and experimentalists, expand and integrate courseworic in quantitative approaches in neuroscience, enhance interactions between undergraduate and graduate students, enhance opportunities for undergraduate research and draw together the community across campus to strengthen our already excellent interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. Our undergraduate training program will establish a two-year sequence in computational neuroscience, with entry points for up to 12 trainees yearly either from neurobiology or from a computational major (Physics, Computer Science and Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics). In fall quarter students attend a series of seminars to introduce them to faculty research. Trainees wiil take a common core cunicuium including both laboratory neurobiology courses and quantitative courses, where the laboratory section is enhanced with a parallel computational course. Choice of additional electives in an individualized curriculum is guided by a mentoring committee. All students will complete at least 1 and preferably 4 quarters of mentored laboratory research. Our graduate training program will support up to 6 students joining either from the Neurobiology & Behavior interdepartmental program or from departmental graduate programs. Students will apply for training grant support at the end of the first year and can7 out a core curriculum consisting of two neurobiology courses and two quantitative courses. Individually tailored curricula including electives selected from offerings in computational neuroscience, mathematics, computer science and physics will be devised in consultation with a mentoring committee. A biweekly joumal club will survey mathematical and systems neuroscience papers and allow student research presentations. Students will have teaching opportunities in new computational courses in the undergraduate Neurobiology program. All trainees will attend a monthly seminar and and present their research at an annual retreat. The program will be directed by Assoc. Prof. Adrienne Falrhall, Physiology and Biophysics, and a leadership team of Prof. Bill Moody, Professor of Biology, Director of the Undergraduate Neurobiology Program; Assoc. Prof. David Peri<el, Otolaryngology and Physiology and Biophysics; Prof. Fred Rieke, Physiology and Biophysics, former Director of the Physiology and Biophysics graduate program and Asst. Prof. Eric Shea- Brown, Applied Mathematics.