Advanced Graduate Training Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求继续支持先进的培训补助金（第3 - 5年）的学生在完善的哥伦比亚大学范围内的神经生物学和行为博士课程。需要资助5名学生。启动和继续这项培训计划的动力是希望为我们的学生提供尽可能好的准备，以实现利用他们的科学培训的生产性职业。特别是，我们将支持学生进行跨学科的研究，具有转化意义和相关性的神经系统疾病的干部。我们将进一步支持和鼓励由具有不同实验专业知识的共同导师指导的此类研究。此外，我们将通过以下方式为这些学生和其他学生提供实验室外培训： 专业技能持续课程和神经和精神疾病生物学课程”。我们还将通过与新成立的哥伦比亚转化神经科学倡议（CTNI）的合作，为该计划增加几个新的“附加值”组件。CTNI致力于作为一个伞式组织，以协调和加强哥伦比亚的基础和转化神经科学研究。除了其整体使命所带来的好处外，CTNI还将专门组织和运行一个指导性的数据展示论坛，我们支持的学生将与其他博士和博士后学员沿着参加。它还将为我们的学生提供由神经系统疾病患者的临床教师介绍。这些培训机会旨在利用，使他们受益于我们的支持学员以及其他神经科学为导向的学生在哥伦比亚。该计划最初将由目前的PD劳埃德格林，和一个共同的PD，吉尔迪保罗。格林博士将在续约期的第一年后逐步退出，迪保罗博士 将成为唯一的警察这一安排旨在使计划领导层的平稳过渡。该计划将有52名初级和高级导师，他们在与转化神经科学相关的领域工作。监督将由整个神经生物学和行为计划的董事，由外部委员会和由该计划支持的当前和过去的学生的反馈提供。在该计划的前4年，11名学生已与导师/共同导师由13个不同的院系支持。出版记录，论文完成，保留率，成功获得外部支持，继续科学生涯，越来越多的合格和共同辅导的申请人，以及学生的反馈都表明该计划正在实现其目标。这一点和其他考虑支持将受资助学生人数从目前的4人增加到5人的要求。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request continued support for a training grant for advanced (3rd-5th year) students in the well-established Columbia University-wide Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior. Support for five students is requested. The impetus for initiating and continuing this training program is the desire to provide the best possible preparation of our students to fulfill productive careers that draw on their scientific training. I particular, we will support a cadre of students carrying out cross-disciplinary research that has translational significance and relevance to neurological diseases. We will further favor and encourage such research that is directed by co-mentors with different experimental expertise. In addition, we will provide out-of-laboratory training of these and other students in the program via a continuing course in "Professional Skills" and a course in Biology of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders". We will also add several new "added value" components to the program via an association with the newly inaugurated Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative (CTNI). The CTNI is dedicated to serving as an umbrella organization to coordinate and enhance basic and translational neuroscience research at Columbia. Aside from the benefits conferred by its overall mission, the CTNI will specifically organize and run a mentored data presentation forum that our supported students will participate in along with other doctoral and post-doctoral trainees. It will also offer our students presentations by clinical faculty of patiens with neurological disorders. These training opportunities are designed to be leveraged so that they benefit our supported trainees as well as other neuroscience-oriented students at Columbia. The program initially will be directed by the current PD Lloyd Greene, and a co-PD, Gil Di Paolo. Dr. Greene will phase out after the first year of the renewal period and Dr. Di Paolo will become sole PD. This arrangement is designed to permit a smooth transition of the program leadership. The program will have 52 mentors at both junior and senior levels who work in area of relevance to translational neuroscience. Oversight will be provided by the directors of the overall Neurobiology and Behavior program, by an outside committee and by feedback from current and past students supported by the program. In the first 4 years of the program, 11 students have been supported with mentorship/co-mentorship by 13 different faculties. Publication records, thesis completion, retention rates, success in gaining outside support, continuation in science careers, increasing numbers of qualified and co-mentored applicants, and student feedback all indicate that the program is meeting its goals. This and additional considerations support the request to increase the number of supported students to five from the current number of four.