Vision Sciences Training Grant

视觉科学培训补助金

• 批准号: 7681045
• 负责人: Carol A. Mason
• 金额: $ 22.63万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7681045
• 关键词: Grant; Training; vision science

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to continue to support five predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year, in a university-wide training program in visual science, at the systems, cellular, and molecular levels. Training focuses on analysis of the visual pathways from retina to brain, and cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of the normal and diseased eye. Thirty-nine faculty are distributed on two campuses of Columbia University: Thirty-two of this faculty are in basic and clinical science departments on the Health Sciences Campus, 168th Street and Broadway, and 7 are drawn from four departments from the main (Morningside) campus at 116th and Broadway. During the last funding period, Columbia established a new Mind-Brain Institute with 6 investigators focused on the primate visual cortex, a new fMRI and MR spectroscopy facility in the Neurological Institute, and a new clinical research center within the Department of Ophthalmology. A Center for Theoretical Neuroscience has been initiated by two new faculty. Four of the 34 original mentors have been replaced by 5 new faculty and 4 extant faculty. Section 1 includes 13 faculty focused on the visual and oculomotor systems in humans and monkeys using neurophysiology, psychophysics, computational modeling, and imaging. Four faculty in Section 2 focus on cell specification, retinal axon guidance, and biophysics and plasticity of dendrites and spines. Section 3 comprises 22 faculty studying structure/function of rhodopsin, retinoid processing, and degenerative processes, including macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, and cataracts. The research carried out by the mentors and trainees matches the goals in NEI's National Plan for Eye and Vision Research for Retinal Diseases, Cornea, and Lens and Cataract programs, as well as the Strabismus, Amblyopia and Visual Processing. Trainees will continue to be recruited by advertisement and via acceptance through a number of other strong and selective graduate programs such as the MD-PhD program, Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, and Integrated Program in Cellular, Biochemical and Biophysical studies. Through activities such as courses, thesis committees, symposia, seminars, and a Greater New York Vision Club, it is expected that faculty and trainees will continue to interact, and produce a new generation of vision scientists who will further elucidate information processing, development, and disease of the visual system.

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请申请资金继续支持大学范围内的视觉科学培训项目中的五名博士后和两名博士后，培训范围包括系统、细胞和分子水平。培训的重点是分析从视网膜到大脑的视觉通路，以及正常和疾病眼睛的细胞、分子和遗传方面。39名教员分布在哥伦比亚大学的两个校区：其中32人在健康科学校区、第168街和百老汇的基础和临床科学系，7人来自第116号和百老汇的主校区(Morningside)的四个系。在上一次资助期间，哥伦比亚大学成立了一个新的大脑研究所，有6名研究人员专注于灵长类动物的视觉皮质，在神经研究所建立了一个新的功能磁共振成像和磁共振波谱设施，并在眼科系内建立了一个新的临床研究中心。一个理论神经科学中心已经由两名新教师发起。34名最初的导师中有4名被5名新教师和4名现有教师取代。第一部分包括13名教师，利用神经生理学、心理物理学、计算建模和成像，重点研究人类和猴子的视觉和眼动系统。第二部分的四个教授专注于细胞规格、视网膜轴突引导、树突和棘突的生物物理学和可塑性。第三部分由22名教员组成，研究视紫红质的结构/功能、视黄醇的加工和退化过程，包括黄斑变性、视网膜色素变性、糖尿病视网膜病变和白内障。导师和学员进行的这项研究符合NEI针对视网膜疾病、角膜、晶状体和白内障以及斜视、弱视和视觉处理的国家眼科和视力研究计划中的目标。受训人员将继续通过广告和接受方式通过其他一些强有力和有选择性的研究生项目招聘，如MD-PhD项目、神经生物学和行为博士项目以及细胞、生化和生物物理研究综合项目。通过课程、论文委员会、座谈会、研讨会和大纽约视觉俱乐部等活动，预计教职员工和受训人员将继续互动，并培养出新一代视觉科学家，他们将进一步阐明视觉系统的信息处理、发育和疾病。