Research Training Program in Vision Science

项目概述：一个由13名具有研究培训经验的高级和中级研究人员组成的导师小组，每个人都有活跃的和有竞争力的研究项目，建议在威斯康星医学院（MOW）继续一个相对较新的视觉科学研究培训计划再进行5年。每年招收5名博士预科生。其目的是为受训者在眼科和视觉研究方面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一个广泛的、多学科的认识，对影响视觉的疾病有一个当代的理解，以及对视觉系统实验工作的现代研究技能和技术。它还要求受训人员掌握在多学科研究环境中发挥作用所必需的分析和沟通技巧。导师小组提供视觉系统的多个方面的经验，从基本的光感受器生物学和色彩视觉到大脑中心视觉的组织。该计划的导师还提供广泛的先进技术知识，包括分子遗传学，共聚焦和多光子成像，自适应光学，

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.