Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

 描述(由申请者提供)：为了满足对能够为听力科学问题带来创新技能和观点的科学家的日益增长的需求，我们继续在马里兰大学帕克学院的比较和进化生物学方面建立我们的听力比较和进化生物学培训计划。我们团队中的17个核心学院带来了非常广泛的专业知识，从细胞和分子生物学到系统神经科学，同时也展示了在培训学生方面的成功记录。这些能力使我们能够提供一个培训计划，不仅强调从比较和进化的角度来理解听觉系统，而且还可以跨不同的分析级别这样做。我们提出了新的方法来培训下一代科学家，以将知识和方法转化为生物医学科学，使局限于单一学科和使用单一模型系统的工作无法实现的突破。我们的下一个培训周期将重点放在转化性研究上，我们将继续扩大学员对基础研究的生物医学应用的欣赏，以解决与人类一生中的听力有关的问题，包括听力障碍的预防、诊断、遗传学和相关治疗干预。核心教员来自四个系：生物学、心理学、听觉和言语科学以及电气和计算机工程。来自其他UMD项目、NIDCD和其他地区性机构(如马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校(UMB)和沃尔特里德国家军事医学中心(Walter Reed National Military Medical Center))的其他附属学院与核心学院密切合作，为博士后和博士后实习生提供进一步的研究和培训机会。该培训计划包括对5名博士后和3名博士后实习生的支持。博士前实习生一般在中后期培训年中选拔，那时他们主要从事研究。除研究培训外，所有受训人员还参加听力和研究道德基础课程，参加专业发展和翻译听觉科学的研讨会/课程，以及参加所有计划活动。整个计划的重点是让受训者接触到该计划参与实验室所做的广泛工作，并通过这种接触，更好地了解当今听力科学中所提出的问题范围和跨学科研究方法

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to an emerging need for scientists who can bring innovative skills and perspectives to problems in the hearing sciences, we continue to build upon our well established Training Program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. The 17 Core Faculty in our group bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise, from cellular and molecular biology to systems neuroscience, while also demonstrating a successful track record in training students. These capabilities allow us to offer a training program that not only emphasizes a comparative and evolutionary perspective to understanding the auditory system, but also does so across different levels of analysis. We propose new approaches to train the next generation of scientists to translate knowledge and methodologies across biomedical sciences, enabling breakthroughs that cannot be achieved through work confined to a single discipline and using a single model system. The next cycle of our training program promotes a focus on translational research, in which we will continue to expand our trainees' appreciation of the biomedical applications of basic research to solving problems concerned with hearing across the human life span, including prevention, diagnosis, and genetics of hearing impairment and relevant therapeutic interventions. Core Faculty are from four departments: biology, psychology, hearing and speech sciences, and electrical and computer engineering. Additional associated faculty from other UMD programs, NIDCD, and other regional institutions, such as the University of Maryland- Baltimore (UMB) and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, work closely with the Core Faculty and provide further research and training opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral trainees. The Training Program includes support for five predoctoral and three postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees are generally selected in middle to later training years, when they are primarily engaged in research. In addition to research training, all trainees take courses in the fundamentals of hearing and research ethics, attend seminars/courses in professional development and translational auditory science, as well as participate in all program activities. Emphasis throughout the program is to expose trainees to the breadth of work done in the program's participating labs, and through this exposure, gain a better appreciation for the range of questions being asked and interdisciplinary research methods applied today in the hearing sciences