Advanced Graduate Training Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

 描述(由申请人提供)：我们请求继续支持哥伦比亚大学神经生物学和行为学博士课程中高级(3-5年级)学生的培训资助。请求为五名学生提供支持。启动和继续这一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，以实现他们依靠科学培训实现富有成效的职业生涯。特别是，我们将支持一批学生开展具有翻译意义和与神经疾病相关的跨学科研究。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该项目中的其他学生提供实验室外培训 “专业技能”继续课程和神经学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翻译神经科学倡议(CTnI)建立联系，为该计划增加几个新的“附加值”部分。CTnI致力于充当一个伞形组织，协调和加强哥伦比亚大学的基础和翻译神经科学研究。除了总体使命带来的好处外，CTNI还将专门组织和运营一个有指导的数据演示论坛，我们支持的学生将与其他博士后和博士后学员一起参加论坛。它还将为我们的学生提供神经疾病患者的临床教师的演示文稿。这些培训机会旨在利用这些机会，使我们支持的受训人员以及哥伦比亚大学其他神经科学专业的学生受益。该项目最初将由现任PD Lloyd Greene和联席PD Gil Di Paolo指导。格林医生将在续约期的第一年后逐步退出，迪保罗医生 将成为唯一的警局。这一安排旨在允许计划领导层的平稳过渡。该项目将有52名初级和高级导师，他们在与翻译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项目的主任、一个外部委员会以及该项目支持的当前和过去学生的反馈提供。在该计划的前4年，11名学生得到了13个不同院系的导师/共同导师的支持。发表记录、论文完成率、保留率、获得外部支持的成功率、科学职业生涯的延续、合格和共同指导的申请者数量的增加，以及学生的反馈，都表明该项目正在实现其目标。这一点和其他考虑因素支持将受资助学生人数从目前的四人增加到五人的请求。

 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.