Graduate Training in Neuroscience

神经科学研究生培训

• 批准号: 6697404
• 负责人: James Patrick
• 金额: $ 19.47万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6697404
• 关键词: photonics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continuing support for Predoctoral Training in Systems and Integrative Biology with specific emphasis on Graduate Training in Neuroscience. The training program proposed encompasses Neuroscience from the study of such complex systems as the cortical processing of visual information to the molecular biology of synaptic transmission and neurotransmitter regulation of gene expression. The goal of the program is to prepare students for research careers in Neuroscience with an emphasis on a multi-dimensional approach to the problem. With this goal in mind we have assembled a faculty able to direct research projects in behavior, development, biochemistry, cellular electrophysiology, biophysics, molecular biology, photonics, psychophysics, cortical function, computational neuroscience and the molecular genetics of diseases of the brain. These faculty members are brought together in this goal by their common interests in Neuroscience and in their commitment to providing both didactic teaching and laboratory training to graduate students. We have implemented a new integrated core curriculum in Integrative Neuroscience that provides students with a broad foundation in Neuroscience that we hope will carry them forward in their work even as their specific research in Neuroscience may change over the course of their careers. We have prepared a series of exams that will test our progress in this endeavor, and have a number of mechanisms in place to promote collaborative interactions between the students and the faculty in different departments. We believe that Predoctoral Training in Neuroscience meets an important need in modern neurobiology research, the training of a cadre of broadly trained students with an integrated understanding across the tremendously broad spectrum of contemporary molecular, cellular and systems neuroscience. Ph.D. students also need to gain a clear appreciation of the many timely disease-related opportunities in Neuroscience research. This program in Graduate Training in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine makes an important contribution to this endeavor through the recruitment and education of young scientists able to execute this mission.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求继续支持系统和综合生物学博士前培训，特别强调神经科学研究生培训。培训计划包括神经科学，从研究视觉信息的皮层处理等复杂系统到突触传递的分子生物学和基因表达的神经递质调节。该计划的目标是为学生在神经科学的研究事业做好准备，重点是对问题的多维方法。为了实现这一目标，我们组建了一支能够指导行为、发育、生物化学、细胞电生理学、生物物理学、分子生物学、光子学、精神物理学、皮质功能、计算神经科学和大脑疾病分子遗传学等研究项目的师资队伍。这些教职员工聚集在一起，因为他们对神经科学有共同的兴趣，并致力于为研究生提供教学和实验室培训。我们在综合神经科学中实施了一个新的综合核心课程，为学生提供了神经科学的广泛基础，我们希望即使他们在神经科学的具体研究可能会在他们的职业生涯中发生变化，也能在他们的工作中发挥作用。我们准备了一系列的考试来测试我们在这方面的进展，并建立了一些机制来促进不同部门的学生和教师之间的合作互动。