Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

项目总结/摘要 为了满足对科学家的新需求，他们可以为解决问题带来创新的技能和观点， 听力科学，我们继续建立在我们完善的比较和 听力进化生物学，马里兰州大学帕克分校。我们集团的17名核心教师 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。这些功能使我们能够提供 培训计划，不仅强调比较和进化的角度来理解 听觉系统，而且在不同的分析层次上也是如此。我们提出了新的方法来训练 下一代科学家将知识和方法转化为生物医学科学， 单一学科、单一模式无法实现的突破 系统我们的培训计划的下一个周期促进了对转化研究的关注，我们将 继续扩大我们的学员对基础研究的生物医学应用的理解，以解决 与人类寿命有关的听力问题，包括预防，诊断和遗传学。 听力障碍和相关的治疗干预。核心教师来自四个部门和一个 UMD（生物学，心理学，听力和语音科学，电气和计算机工程， 和神经科学与认知科学）和马里兰州，巴尔的摩大学（UMB： 生命科学研究生课程）。来自其他UMD计划，NIDCD的其他相关教师，以及 其他地区机构，如UMB和沃尔特里德国家军事医疗中心，与 核心学院，并提供进一步的研究和培训机会，为前和博士后学员。 培训方案要求为5名博士前和2名博士后受训人员提供支助。博士前实习生 一般选在培训的中后期，主要从事科研工作。在 除了研究培训外，所有学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，并参加 在所有方案活动中。整个计划的重点是让学员了解在 该计划的参与实验室，并通过这种接触，获得更好的欣赏范围， 提出的问题和跨学科的研究方法今天应用在听力科学。

Project Summary/Abstract 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 and one program at UMD (Biology, Psychology, Hearing and Speech Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Neuroscience and Cognitive Science) and one program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB: Graduate Program in Life Sciences). Additional associated faculty from other UMD programs, NIDCD, and other regional institutions, such as 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 requests support for five predoctoral and two 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.