Neuroscience Training Program at UC Berkeley

 描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求支持15个博士前培训名额，用于加州大学伯克利分校的广泛的多学科神经科学培训计划（NTP）。我们的培训计划提供严格的学术和研究培训，并强调多学科方法和新兴方法，旨在推动我们如何研究大脑的范式转变。我们的48名培训教师来自12个部门，代表了从分子和基因到细胞和电路，系统和计算，行为和认知的神经科学研究。我们的教师是很好的整合，协作，并根据海伦威尔斯神经科学研究所（HWNI），这是在加州大学伯克利分校神经科学的智力中心团结。该培训计划将主要支持神经科学博士课程的博士生，该课程提供神经科学研究的广泛培训，以及我们培训教师实验室的3个额外博士课程的少量学生。所有学生将接受相同的基础广泛的神经科学课程，研究和专业技能培训。每个学生都将在博士培训的第1-2年得到支持。我们的计划提供了广泛的神经科学培训，从分子到心灵。我们结合联合收割机灵活的课程，严格的研究培训，定量的技能，并主要侧重于先进的研究方法。我们的神经科学多学科方法利用伯克利在分子和细胞生物学，物理和计算科学，工程和心理学方面的深厚专业知识。我们需要基础广泛的神经科学课程作业、实验室轮换和论文研究、实验性靴子营课程和统计/定量方法课程。我们提供大量的专业技能培训和职业咨询。研讨会系列，期刊俱乐部，以及每年一度的校园范围内的务虚会提供了丰富的接触现代神经科学研究。多层次的咨询系统提供广泛的科学和职业咨询。我们每年进行计划评估，以指导改进。该计划建立在和更新，我们多年的NIH赞助的神经科学培训在伯克利分校。我们的学生进行创新研究，并在顶级期刊上发表。我们在招聘和毕业不同的博士生方面有着良好的记录。绝大多数过去的受训人员已经在学术生物医学研究和工业中从事生产性职业。创新的新培训元素将进一步为我们的学生做好前沿研究职业的准备。我们相信，这个培训项目将教育科学家，他们可以将基本发现转化为人类神经系统疾病的解决方案。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for 15 predoctoral training slots for a broad, multidisciplinary Neuroscience Training Program (NTP) at the University of California, Berkeley. Our training program provides rigorous academic and research training and emphasizes multi-disciplinary approaches and new, emerging methods, with the goal of fueling paradigm shifts in how we study the brain. Our 48 training faculty are from 12 departments, and represent neuroscience research from molecules and genes, to cells and circuits, systems and computation, behavior and cognition. Our faculty is well-integrated, collaborative, and united under the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI), which is the intellectual center for neuroscience at UC Berkeley. This training program will primarily support PhD students in the Neuroscience PhD Program, which offers broad-based training in neuroscience research, plus a smaller number of students in 3 additional PhD programs in our training faculty laboratories. All students will receive the same broad-based neuroscience coursework, research, and professional skills training. Each student will be supported in Years 1-2 of PhD training. Our program provides training across a wide range of neuroscience, from molecules to mind. We combine flexible coursework, rigorous research training, quantitative skills, and a major focus on advanced research methods. Our multi-disciplinary approach to neuroscience leverages Berkeley's deep expertise in molecular and cell biology, physical and computational sciences, engineering and psychology. We require broad-based neuroscience coursework, laboratory rotations and thesis research, an experimental Boot Camp course, and a Statistics/Quantitative Methods class. We provide substantial professional skills training and career advising. Seminar series, journal clubs, and an annual campus-wide retreat provide rich exposure to modern neuroscience research. A multi-tiered advising system provides extensive scientific and career advising. We conduct yearly program evaluations to guide improvements. This program builds on, and updates, our many years of NIH-sponsored Neuroscience training at Berkeley. Our students conduct innovative research and publish in top journals. We have a solid track record in recruiting and graduating diverse PhD students. The great majority of past trainees have gone on to productive careers in academic biomedical research and industry. Innovative new training elements will further prepare our students for cutting-edge research careers. We believe this training program will educate scientists who can translate basic discoveries into solutions for human neurological diseases.