Training Program In Visual Neuroscience

视觉神经科学培训计划

• 批准号: 10000916
• 负责人: THOMAS D ALBRIGHT
• 金额: $ 12.25万
• 依托单位: SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10000916
• 关键词: Training Programs; visual neuroscience

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this training program is to provide postdoctoral fellows with interdisciplinary training in visual neuroscience. The Salk Institute has for many years been home to a visual neuroscience community that has been highly productive and progressive in its approach, with an unusual degree of collaboration on topics of shared interest. This community now comprises the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision (CNV), which includes research programs that employ a variety of experimental approaches - molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and computational - and address the neural structures and events that underlie visual sensation, perception, cognition, visually-guided behavior, visual plasticity, learning, memory and development. The eleven training faculty of the CNV collectively boast a lengthy, diverse and highly successful record of visual neuroscience training of both pre- and postdoctoral students. The proposed training program will place emphasis on research projects that are interdisciplinary, explore visual system organization and function across levels ranging from molecules to behavior, address multiple stages in the processing hierarchy and enable understanding of pathologies of visual function. The administrative structure of the proposed program comprises an Executive Committee with director T. Albright and committee members (E. Callaway, H. Cline, D. O'Leary, and T. Sejnowski) representative of our research strengths: neural correlates of perception, neuronal circuits and mechanisms, development and plasticity, and disorders of visual function. Training will be provided to four trainees for one to two years and designed toward exposure of a range of modern techniques including electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, fMRI, psychophysics, molecular genetics, and theory/computational modeling. In view of the high quality of postdoctoral applicants to our program, the consistent successes of current and past trainees, and diminishing private funds for training in visual neuroscience, we are requesting support for four postdoctoral trainees, which will ensure the maintenance of this training and leverage the productivity of our NEI-supported research programs.

 描述(由申请者提供)：本培训计划的目标是为博士后研究员提供视觉神经科学的跨学科培训。索尔克研究所已经 多年来一直是视觉神经科学社区的所在地，该社区在方法上一直非常富有成效和进步，在共同感兴趣的话题上进行了不同寻常的合作。这个社区现在由视觉神经生物学中心(CNV)组成，其中包括采用各种实验方法--分子、遗传、细胞、系统和计算--的研究项目，并研究构成视觉感觉、知觉、认知、视觉引导行为、视觉可塑性、 学习、记忆和发展。CNV的11名培训教师共同拥有漫长、多样化和非常成功的视觉神经科学培训记录，包括博士后和博士后。拟议的培训计划将把重点放在跨学科的研究项目上，探索从分子到行为的各个层次的视觉系统组织和功能，解决处理层次中的多个阶段，并使人们能够理解视觉功能的病理。拟议项目的管理结构由执行委员会组成，执行委员会由T·奥尔布赖特主任和委员会成员(E.Callaway、H.Cline、D.O‘Leary和T.Sejnowski)组成，代表我们的研究优势：感知的神经关联、神经元电路和机制、发育和可塑性以及视觉功能障碍。将向四名受训人员提供为期一至两年的培训，旨在接触一系列现代技术，包括电生理学、神经解剖学、功能磁共振成像、心理物理学、分子遗传学和理论/计算建模。鉴于我们项目的博士后申请者质量很高，现在和过去的学员都取得了持续的成功，而且用于视觉神经科学培训的私人资金不断减少，我们请求为四名博士后学员提供支持，这将确保培训的持续进行，并利用我们NEI支持的研究项目的生产力。