Training Program in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：继续支持，要求在视觉科学在加州大学戴维斯分校的跨学科培训。培训由14个部门的45名视觉科学家（31名导师和14名副导师）提供，这些部门将在一个或多个基础科学方面提供坚实的基础。培训计划的目标是培养视觉科学家，他们将能够建立独立的研究计划，解决视觉科学中的重大问题。它将在加州大学戴维斯分校现有研究生课程的主持下运作，因为它们提供了实现我们的培训目标所需的广泛灵活性。在过去十年中，我们的300名博士前和博士后视觉科学学员（其中38人得到了T32的部分支持）中，90%的人通过继续培训或职业岗位积极参与研究。在完成所有培训的人中，82%在大约71所不同的学院、大学基础科学系和医学或兽医学院从事研究和/或教学工作。培训计划要求支持4名博士前学生（每两年; 8个插槽）和1名博士后实习生（一年）由咨询委员会选择。其他几年的培训将利用内部支助机制和校外赠款。学员将参与我们的导师聚集的五个重叠领域中的一个或多个：（1）分子和细胞生物学，视网膜电生理学和遗传学，（2）眼前节解剖学和生理学，（3）分子和细胞视网膜成像，（4）系统视觉神经科学，以及（5）功能成像，计算建模和感知。31位导师中的每一位都有一个积极的视觉科学研究计划，对培训的坚定承诺和校外资金。计划资源得到了强大的机构承诺，视觉科学中心和NEI核心补助金的增加。该培训计划借鉴了入学计划的严格研究培训，但也需要一个为期一年的课程，涵盖更广泛的视觉科学和临床视觉科学。研究生受训人员只有在完成第一年的研究生培训后才能得到支助，因此他们是一个非常有选择性的群体，已经完成了大部分基础科学课程。所有学员将参加一个积极的座谈会系列在他的视觉科学，中心视觉科学专题讨论会，期刊俱乐部和研究的道德行为的培训。所有学员将参与视觉科学研究，这些研究将在国家会议上提出，并提交给同行评审的期刊。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for interdisciplinary training in the vision sciences at the University of California, Davis. Training is provided by 45 vision scientists (31 preceptors and 14 associate preceptors) across 14 departments that will provide a strong foundation in one or more basic sciences. The goal of the training program is to produce vision scientists who will be capable of establishing independent research programs that will address significant problems in vision science. It will operate under the auspices of existing graduate programs at UC Davis as they offer the broad flexibility needed to achieve our training objectives. Among our 300 pre- and postdoctoral vision science trainees in the past ten years (38 of whom were partially supported by this T32), 90% are active in research through continuing training or in career positions. Among those who have completed all training, 82% are active in research and/or teaching positions at some 71 different colleges, university basic science departments and schools of medicine or veterinary medicine. The training program requests support for 4 predoctoral students (for two years each; 8 slots) and 1 postdoctoral trainee (for one year) to be selected by an Advisory Committee. Internal support mechanisms and extramural grants will be used for the other years of training. The trainees will participate i one or more of five overlapping areas in which our preceptors are clustered: (1) molecular & cellular biology, retinal electrophysiology, and genetics, (2) anterior segment anatomy and physiology, (3) molecular and cellular retinal imaging, (4) systems visual neuroscience, and (5) functional imaging, computational modeling and perception. Each of the 31 preceptors has an active program of vision science research, a strong commitment to training, and extramural funding. Program resources are augmented by a strong institutional commitment, the Center for Visual Sciences and an NEI Core grant. The training program draws on the rigorous research training of the admitting programs, but also requires a one-year course that covers the broader vision sciences and clinical vision science. Graduate trainees will be supported only after their first year of graduate training and will thus be a highly selective group that has completed much of their basic science curriculum. All trainees will participate in an active colloquium series in he vision sciences, Center for Visual Sciences symposia, journal clubs and training in the ethical conduct of research. All trainees will be engaged in vision science research that will be presented at national meetings and submitted to peer-reviewed journals.