Training Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的提案描述了一个先进的博士前培训计划，重点是分子，细胞和翻译神经科学。培训计划的目标集中在（a）实现基本原理和技术的高质量教育，为现代神经科学研究的高度合作和跨学科性质做好准备;（B）在重点领域创造深入和最先进的实验室研究机会，以及（c）在研究生教育期间经常被忽视的必要专业技能方面的培训，包括批判性阅读、补助金写作、口头报告、领导力、管理和网络。我们将通过高级课程，研讨会，小组讨论，每周研讨会，学员演示和结构化（以及更非正式）与计划教师的会议相结合来实现这些目标。一个经过深思熟虑的指导计划将有助于学员在计划中的进步，并为参与者未来的科学职业做好准备。纽约大学的神经科学博士预科生成为他们的研究实验室以及纽约大学广阔的神经科学社区的一个组成部分，特别是因为拟议的培训计划汇集了来自纽约大学主要校区的30名教师培训师。虽然历史上两个相关的神经科学研究生课程在纽约大学共存，教师从这两个程序已经采取了几个关键步骤，以整合他们的研究生培训在过去的5-10年。在大学的大力支持下，我们进入了项目整合的新阶段。拟议的培训计划将有助于进一步努力统一广泛的纽约大学神经科学界，特别是那些在分子，细胞和转化神经科学领域，其队伍最近大幅增加，这要归功于纽约大学神经科学中心和新的纽约大学神经科学研究所积极招聘教师。这个蓬勃发展的社区，特别是选定的培训教师，支持大量的研究生人口。我们寻求资助4博士预科学生在他们的第三年或更高的这个队列;每个人将被任命为1至2年，就在我们预计他们将过渡到独立的资金。这个规模将提供一个临界质量的受训人员，以便牢固地建立在纽约大学更大的神经科学研究生课程的背景下，这个培训计划。通过我们新整合的研究生课程，我们为学员提供广阔而丰富的知识环境以及自信地追求自己的科学兴趣的资源和经验，我们希望这将导致基础神经科学和神经疾病的潜在机制的未来突破。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal describes an advanced predoctoral training program focused on molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience. The training program's goals are focused on (a) achieving a high-quality education in the fundamental principles and techniques that will prepare trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research; (b) generating in-depth and state-of-the-art laboratory research opportunities in the focus area, and (c) training in the necessary professional skills often overlooked during graduate education, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking. We will achieve these goals through a combination of advanced coursework, workshops, small group discussions, weekly seminars, trainee presentations, and structured (as well as more informal) meetings with program faculty. A well-thought out mentoring program will aid trainees' progress in the program and prepare the participants for their future careers in science. Neuroscience predoctoral trainees at NYU become an integral part of their research labs as well as the expansive neuroscience community at NYU, especially because the proposed training program brings together 30 faculty trainers from across NYU's major campuses. Although historically two related neuroscience graduate programs co-existed at NYU, faculty from both programs have taken several key steps to integrate their graduate training over the past 5-10 years. With substantial support from the University, we reached a new phase of program integration. The proposed training program will be instrumental in furthering the efforts to unify the extensive NYU neuroscience community, particularly those in the areas of molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience, whose ranks have recently increased substantially thanks to aggressive faculty recruitment by the NYU Center for Neural Science and the new NYU Neuroscience Institute. This thriving community, and especially the selected training faculty, supports a substantial graduate student population. We seek funding for 4 predoctoral students in their 3rd year or higher within this cohort; each will be appointed for 1 to 2 years, just priorto when we anticipate they will transition to independent funding. This size will provide a critical mass of trainees so as to firmly establish this training program within the context of the larger combined neuroscience graduate programs at NYU. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment and the resources and experience to confidently pursue their own scientific interests, which we hope will lead to future breakthroughs in basic neuroscience and the underlying mechanisms of neurological diseases.