Training Grant in Vision Research

 描述（由申请人提供）：范德比尔特视觉研究中心（WRC）要求继续支持博士前和博士后培训。范德比尔特的视觉和眼科研究人员保持着非常强劲的训练记录，并取得了出色的研究进展。积极的教师招聘增加了合格导师的数量和多样性，以及NEI资助的研究赠款的数量。研究和培训计划从传统的心理物理学与结构和功能脑成像和视觉神经科学延伸到细胞和分子眼睛研究。在以前的补助金期间接受培训的个人获得了有竞争力的博士后或教师职位，并在视觉研究方面发展了富有成效的独立职业。将继续进行心理物理学、视觉神经科学和信号转导分子机制、视网膜加工和视网膜疾病方面的培训。对博士前学员的具体课程要求包括：（1）视觉系统课程团队-由课程教师授课，（2）从涵盖分子生物学，神经科学，感知和工程的广泛课程中选择学员研究生课程指定的额外课程，（3）参加当地视觉培训研讨会系列，受邀演讲者视觉研究研讨会系列，和眼睛与视觉研究座谈会以及校园内的相关研讨会，（4）参加国际科学会议，如视觉与眼科学研究协会，视觉科学学会和神经科学学会，（5）参加负责任的研究项目，以及（6）最重要的是，由一个或多个导师监督的研究。博士后学员必须满足相同的要求，除了（2）当他们准备一个独立的NRSA提案。将在全国范围内征聘受训人员，重点是增加多样性。与梅哈里医学院、菲斯克大学和田纳西州立大学等纳什维尔传统的非裔美国人机构的联盟为少数族裔的招聘提供了便利。该培训计划通过范德比尔特视觉和眼科研究人员的数量和凝聚力培养视觉和眼科研究的跨学科培训，培养独立的学术视觉和眼科研究人员。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (WRC) requests continued support for predoctoral and postdoctoral training. Vision and eye researchers at Vanderbilt maintain an exceptionally strong training record with excellent research progress. Aggressive faculty recruiting has increased the number and diversity of qualified mentors and the number of NEI-funded research grants. The program of research and training extends from traditional psychophysics with structural and functional brain imaging and visual neuroscience to cellular and molecular eye research. Individuals trained during previous grant periods have obtained competitive postdoctoral or faculty positions and developed productive, independent careers in vision research. Training will continue in psychophysics, visual neuroscience and molecular mechanisms of transduction, retinal processing and retinal disease. Specific program requirements for predoctoral trainees include (1) The Visual System course team-taught by program faculty, (2) additional courses specified by the trainee's graduate program selected from an extensive curriculum covering molecular biology, neuroscience, perception and engineering, (3) participation in the local Vision Training Seminar series, the invited speaker Vision Research Seminar series, and Eye & Vision Research Colloquia as well as related seminars on campus, (4) participation in international scientific meetings such as Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Vision Science Society and Society for Neuroscience, (5) participation in a Responsible Conduct of Research program, and (6) most importantly, research supervised by one or more mentors. Postdoctoral trainees are required to fulfill the same requirements except (2) while they prepare an independent NRSA proposal. Trainees will be recruited nationally with emphasis on increasing diversity. Alliances with traditionally African- American institutions in Nashville such as Meharry Medical College, Fisk University and Tennessee State University facilitate minority recruiting. This training program develops independent, academic vision and eye researchers through interdisciplinary training in vision and eye research fostered by the number and cohesiveness of vision and eye researchers at Vanderbilt.