Training in Systems and Integrative Biology: Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个为期五年的机构NRSA申请的竞争性更新，用于支持埃默里大学神经科学跨部门研究生课程的优秀博士前学生。该计划的目标是为研究生提供现代系统和综合神经科学的广泛知识和研究技能，以便他们可以进入生物医学研究，教育和工业的各种职业。该计划的一个基本优势是我们在跨越几个经典学科的广泛神经生物学问题中提供广泛的跨学科培训。我们正在寻求支持10名学生每年在此更新。神经科学课程目前有79名学生（2005年秋季有17名新学员）入学，并一直吸引着大量高质量的申请人。在过去的五年里，该计划在招收优秀的代表性不足的少数民族学生方面非常成功。目前该项目学生中有15%是少数民族。一个代表来自20个部门和耶基斯中心的104名（76名）教师的执行委员会负责管理该项目。该委员会由主任领导，负责监督程序运行的各个方面，研究生研究主任，负责监督学生进度的监测，以及招生主任，负责监督招生和录取学生的各个方面。在过去的资助期间，随着两个主要神经科学中心的开放，埃默里大学神经科学研究的实验室空间和核心设施大幅增长。该计划的学生在前两年接受广泛的课程，包括神经科学的三门核心课程，生物化学和细胞生物学课程以及生物统计学课程。一个必要的书面论文提案（与口头答辩）在NRSA博士前奖学金申请的形式教宝贵的赠款写作技巧。各种各样的选修课程，从分子到计算神经科学和所需的研究轮换计划提供了必要的开发和完成论文研究项目的专业培训。学生通过一系列的研讨会，实验室会议和期刊俱乐部，以及每年的论文委员会会议，世界各地的机构访问埃默里大学，展示他们的研究，并与我们的学生互动积极辅导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing renewal of a five-year Institutional NRSA application for the support of outstanding predoctoral students in the interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Emory University. The objective of the Program is to provide graduate students a breadth of knowledge and research skills in modern systems and integrative neuroscience so that they may enter a variety of careers in biomedical research, education, and industry. A fundamental strength of this program is the broad interdisciplinary training we provide in a wide spectrum of neurobiological issues spanning several classical disciplines. We are seeking support for 10 students per year in this renewal. The Neuroscience Program currently has 79 students (+ 17 new recruits for Fall 2005) enrolled and has consistently attracted a large and very high quality applicant pool. The program has been extremely successful in enrolling outstanding underrepresented minority students during the past five years. Fifteen percent of the current pool of students in the program are minorities. An Executive Committee representing the 104 (76 on this grant) faculty from 20 departments and Yerkes Center administers the program. This committee is headed by the Director, who oversees all aspects of program operation, a Director of Graduate Studies, who oversees the monitoring of student progress, and the Director of Admissions, who oversees all aspects of recruitment and admission of students to the program. The laboratory space and core facilities available for neuroscience research at Emory have grown substantially during the past funding period with the opening of two major neuroscience centers. Students in the program receive a broad curriculum of courses in their first two years, including three core courses in Neuroscience, a course in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and a course in Biostatistics. A required written thesis proposal (with oral defense) in the form of an NRSA predoctoral fellowship application teaches valuable grant-writing skills. A wide variety of elective courses ranging from Molecular to Computational Neuroscience and a required research rotation program provides the specialized training necessary for the development and completion of a thesis research project. Students are actively mentored through series of seminars, laboratory meetings and journal clubs, and yearly thesis committee meetings, institutions around the world to visit Emory, present their research, and interact with our students.