Training Program in Neuroscience

描述（申请人提供）：西奈山的神经科学培训计划为1年级和2年级的博士前学生提供由国家和国际公认的教师教授的令人兴奋的课程，以及建立在转化神经科学，基础神经生物学，精神病学和神经学专业知识基础上的实验室经验。由于西奈山医院和西奈山伊坎医学院的临床和基础神经科学研究的紧密结合，所有这些都是独一无二的“接口”。神经科学培训计划的核心是西奈山的神经科学博士，学校的第二个博士学位授予计划，和一个高超的培训教师谁共享一个共同的主题兴趣：特定的神经回路的功能和可塑性的研究，在发展过程中，在他的成年人，并在老年人，患病或退化的神经系统。在T32培训计划的最初资助期间，随着弗里德曼脑研究所的成立和赫斯科学与医学中心的开放，研究空间和神经科学培训教师人数大幅增加。西奈山的各种实验室机会利用了转化神经科学的优势，特别是在发育神经生物学，神经老化和退化，神经精神疾病的机制，认知神经科学，计算神经科学和神经成像，感觉信号转导，神经内分泌学和突触和行为可塑性。神经系统在不同的模型系统中进行了研究，从“简单”的无脊椎动物，如海蜗牛，果蝇， 蠕虫C.从线虫一直到复杂的脊椎动物，包括非人类灵长类动物和人类。学生将在基础神经科学和疾病的神经生物学方面获得坚实的基础，在积极促进多学科综合研究的协作环境中。使用这种跨学科的方法，神经科学培训计划将为学生提供必要的知识和实验工具，在我们的培训教师的实验室开始生产，独立的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Training Program offers Year 1 and Year 2 predoctoral students an exciting curriculum taught by a nationally and internationally recognized faculty, and a laboratory experience that builds on expertise in translational neuroscience, basic neurobiology, psychiatry and neurology, all uniquely 'interfaced' with one another due to close apposition of clinical and basic neuroscience research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At the heart of the Neuroscience Training Program are Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Ph.D., the school's second Ph.D. granting program, and a superb training faculty who share a common thematic interest: study of the function and plasticity of specific neural circuits, during development, in he adult, and in the aged, diseased or degenerating nervous system. During the initial funding period of this T32 training program, research space and Neuroscience training faculty number substantially expanded with the founding of the Friedman Brain Institute and opening of the Hess Center for Science and Medicine. Varied laboratory opportunities at Mount Sinai take advantage of strengths in translational neuroscience, notably in developmental neurobiology, neural aging and degeneration, mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience and neuroimaging, sensory signal transduction, neuroendocrinology and synaptic and behavioral plasticity. The nervous system is studied in diverse model systems, from 'simple' invertebrates such as the sea snail Aplasia, the fruit fly, or the worm C. elegans, all the way to complex vertebrates including nonhuman primates and humans. Students will receive a strong foundation in basic neuroscience and the neurobiology of disease, in a collaborative environment that actively promotes multidisciplinary, integrative research. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the Neuroscience Training Program will provide students with the essential knowledge and experimental tools to initiate productive, independent careers in the laboratories of our training faculty.