Graduate Training in Neuroscience

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的博士前培训，特别强调神经科学研究生培训。 所提出的培训计划包括神经科学，从研究视觉信息的皮层处理到突触传递的分子生物学和基因表达的神经递质调节等复杂系统。 该计划的目标是为学生在神经科学的研究生涯做好准备，重点是解决问题的多维方法。 考虑到这一目标，我们已经组装了一个教师能够直接在行为，发展，生物化学，细胞电生理学，生物物理学，分子生物学，光子学，心理物理学，皮质功能，计算神经科学和大脑疾病的分子遗传学的研究项目。 这些教师在神经科学的共同利益，并在他们的承诺，为研究生提供教学和实验室培训这一目标聚集在一起。 我们已经实施了一个新的综合神经科学的综合核心课程，为学生提供了广泛的神经科学基础，我们希望将他们在他们的工作中前进，即使他们在神经科学的具体研究可能会改变他们的职业生涯。 我们已经准备了一系列的考试，将测试我们在这奋进的努力取得的进展，并有一些机制，以促进学生和教师之间的协作互动在不同部门。 我们认为，神经科学博士前培训满足了现代神经生物学研究的重要需求，培养了一批受过广泛培训的学生，他们对当代分子，细胞和系统神经科学的广泛领域有着全面的了解。 博士学生还需要清楚地了解神经科学研究中许多与疾病相关的及时机会。 贝勒医学院神经科学研究生培训的这一计划通过招募和教育能够执行这一使命的年轻科学家，为这一奋进做出了重要贡献。

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.