Research Training Program in Vision Science

视觉科学研究培训计划

• 批准号: 9195097
• 负责人: JOSEPH C BESHARSE
• 金额: $ 23.63万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9195097
• 关键词: Research Training; Training Programs; vision science

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A mentor group of 12 senior and mid-level investigators and including with 2 new investigators, each with experience in research training and with active and competitive research programs, propose to continue a research Training Program in Vision Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) for another 5 years. The request is for 5 pre-doctoral trainees annually. The goal remains to prepare trainees for research careers in ocular and vision research. This requires that students have a broad, multidisciplinary appreciation of the major features of the visual system, a contemporary understanding of the diseases that impact vision, and modern research skills and technologies for experimental work in the visual system. It also requires that trainees acquire the analytical and communication skills necessary to function in a multidisciplinary research environment. The mentor group provides experience in multiple facets of the visual system, including fundamental photoreceptor biology, retinal circuitry and its development, the genetics and diseases of the anterior segment, and important technology including electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), ocular coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics. New features of the program in this renewal include an emphasis on translational research via a new MCW graduate Program in Basic and Translational Research and an enhanced focus on modern imaging technology made possible by recent recruitments that expand MCW's capabilities in OCT and adaptive optics. Pre-doctoral trainees will complete a core curriculum of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology as well as required courses in "Ethics and Integrity in Science" and "The Biology of Vision" as a prelude to conducting dissertation research under the mentorship of a member of the program faculty. All students will have the opportunity at the time they enter a mentor laboratory to participate in Program in Basic and Translational Research, which includes additional training in translational research as well as a requirement for at least one Specific Aim of the dissertation to be translational in nature. All trainees in mentor labs will also participate in a monthly Research Forum/Journal Club in Vision Science, a monthly Distinguished Lecture Series in Vision Science, and an annual Vision Science Colloquium.

描述（由申请人提供）：一个由12名高级和中级研究人员组成的导师小组，其中包括2名新研究人员，他们都有研究培训经验，并有积极和有竞争力的研究项目，建议继续在威斯康星州医学院（MCW）进行为期5年的视觉科学研究培训项目。要求每年提供5名博士前培训生。目标仍然是为学员在眼部和视觉研究的研究生涯做好准备。这要求学生对视觉系统的主要特征有广泛的多学科欣赏，对影响视力的疾病有当代的理解，以及现代研究技能和技术，用于视觉系统的实验工作。它还要求受训人员获得在多学科研究环境中发挥作用所需的分析和沟通技能。导师组提供视觉系统多方面的经验，包括基础感光细胞生物学，视网膜电路及其发展，前段遗传学和疾病，以及电子顺磁共振光谱（EPR），眼相干断层扫描（OCT）和自适应光学等重要技术。该计划在此更新的新功能包括通过一个新的MCW研究生课程在基础和转化研究的重点转化研究，并通过最近的招聘，扩大MCW在OCT和自适应光学的能力，使现代成像技术的重点得到加强。博士前学员将完成分子遗传学，生物化学，细胞生物学和神经生物学的核心课程，以及“科学伦理与诚信”和“视觉生物学”的必修课程，作为在该计划教师的指导下进行论文研究的前奏。所有学生都将有机会在他们进入导师实验室时参加基础和翻译研究计划，其中包括翻译研究的额外培训以及论文的至少一个具体目标的要求是翻译性质。导师实验室的所有学员还将参加每月的视觉科学研究论坛/期刊俱乐部，每月的视觉科学杰出讲座系列和年度视觉科学研讨会。