Research Training Program in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：由13名高级和中级研究人员组成的导师小组，每个人都有研究培训的经验，每个人都有积极和有竞争力的研究计划，建议在威斯康星州医学院（MOW）继续进行一项相对较新的视觉科学研究培训计划，为期5年。要求每年提供5名博士前培训生。其目的是为学员在眼部和视觉研究的研究事业做好准备。这要求学生对视觉系统的主要特征有广泛的多学科欣赏，对影响视力的疾病有当代的理解，以及现代研究技能和技术，用于视觉系统的实验工作。它还要求受训人员获得在多学科研究环境中发挥作用所需的分析和沟通技能。导师组提供视觉系统多方面的经验，从基本的感光生物学和色觉到大脑内中央视觉的组织。该计划的导师还提供了广泛的最先进的技术知识，包括分子遗传学，共聚焦和多光子成像，自适应光学， 光学相干断层扫描、功能性磁共振成像和电子自旋共振光谱学。博士前学员将完成分子遗传学，生物化学，细胞生物学和神经生物学的核心课程，以及“科学伦理与诚信”和“视觉生物学”的必修课程，作为在该计划教师的指导下进行论文研究的前奏。导师实验室的所有学员还将参加每月的视觉科学研究论坛/期刊俱乐部，每月的视觉科学杰出讲座系列和年度视觉科学研讨会。他们还将出席全国会议并提交文件。 相关性：该项目的目标是培养新一代视觉科学研究人员，他们在最新技术方面具有很强的能力，同时注意到跨学科和合作研究在重大科学进步中的重要作用。我们的挑战是让他们了解视觉研究中需要解决的主要问题，同时提供研究所需技术的深入培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: A mentor group composed of 13 senior and mid-level investigators, each with experience in research training and each with active and competitive research programs, propose to continue a relatively new research Training Program in Vision Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MOW) for another 5 years. The request is for 5 pre-doctoral trainees annually. The objective is to prepare trainees for research careers in ocular and vision research. This requires that students have a broad, multidisciplinary appreciation of the major features of the visual system, a contemporary understanding of the diseases that impact vision, and modern research skills and technologies for experimental work in the visual system. It also requires that trainees acquire the analytical and communication skills necessary to function in a multidisciplinary research environment. The mentor group provides experience in multiple facets of the visual system, ranging from fundamental photoreceptor biology and color vision to organization of the central vision within the brain. The mentors in the program also offer a wide range of state of the art technological know-how that includes molecular genetics, confocal and multiphoton imaging, adaptive optics, optical coherence tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and electron spin resonance spectroscopy. Pre-doctoral trainees will complete a core curriculum of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology as well as required courses in "Ethics and Integrity in Science" and "The Biology of Vision" as a prelude to conducting dissertation research under the mentorship of a member of the program faculty. All trainees in mentor labs will also participate in a monthly Research Forum/Journal Club in Vision Science, a monthly Distinguished Lecture Series in Vision Science, and an annual Vision Science Colloquium. They will also attend and present papers at National meetings. Relevance: The goal of the project is to train a new generation of Vision Science researchers that are highly competent in the newest technologies and at the same time mindful of the important role of interdisciplinary and collaborative research in major scientific advances. Our challenge is to expose them to the major problems that need to be solved in vision research while providing in depth training in the technologies essential for research.