Training Program in Basic Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份由加州大学戴维斯分校11个学术部门的40名神经科学家共同赞助的Ruth L. Kirchstein机构博士前培训计划拨款的修订申请。该计划的目标是为新生提供神经科学基本原理的广泛培训，为他们的高级专业研究奠定坚实的基础，并为他们在未来的职业生涯中建立成功的神经科学独立研究项目提供广阔的视角。该项目将在加州大学戴维斯分校现有的神经科学跨部门研究生项目的支持下运作，该项目提供了满足我们培训目标所需的范围和灵活性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for a jointly sponsored Ruth L. Kirchstein Institutional Predoctoral Training Program grant from 40 neuroscientists across 11 academic departments at the University of California, Davis. The goal of the program is to provide a broad training in the fundamental principles of neuroscience for entering students that will lay solid foundations for their specialized research in advanced years and provide them with the broad perspective essential for their establishing successful independent research programs in neuroscience in their future careers. The program will operate under the auspices of the existing interdepartmental graduate program in neuroscience at UC Davis which offers the scope and flexibility needed to meet our training objectives. The Training Program requests support for 6 predoctoral trainees to be selected annually by an Advisory Committee. Trainees will receive one year of support from the grant, typically in their first year. Internal support mechanisms and other extramural grants, that will be meshed with this program, will be used for support of the remaining -3-4 years of advanced training. Trainees will participate in a teaching program especially designed to give exposure to as broad a range of modern neuroscience subdisciplines and technologies as possible including cellular and molecular neuroscinece, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, neurogenetics, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuronscience and modeling, the neurobiology of disease, and central neural mechanisms of behavior. Trainees will receive a rigorous basic training through formal course work, seminars and laboratory rotations and will participate in colloquia in which they will be expected regularly to make oral presentations. Students will thus be well-prepared for their dissertation research and for future, independent careers in basic and disease-related neuroscience research.