CSHL VISION: A PLATFORM FOR LINKING CIRCUITS, PERCEPTION AND BEHAVIOR COURSE

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议课程的主要目标是提供视觉系统电路的深入和现代教程：它们如何工作，它们如何发展，以及它们在特定疾病状态下为什么和如何退化。本课程的格式已经开发和更新了20多年，以便为学生提供视觉科学最全面，最现代和最有影响力的培训，更广泛地说，为思考感觉系统提供一个框架。来自视觉神经科学特定学科的2位世界领导者的每日研究研讨会提供i）视觉系统特定子领域的全面概述，包括其探索历史，ii）每个领域的现代理解，关键问题和出现的问题。iii）学生和教师之间有大量的互动机会，分享想法，提出问题，并接受过去，现在和未来研究的反馈。总体而言，该课程强调在现有模型和技术进步的背景下开发特定的调查路线。一个相对较新的方面（2013年课程开始，计划于2015年及以后）是专注于视觉系统疾病和修复患病/受损电路的方法。教员的选择是基于他们对该领域的长期和/或特别重大的贡献。每个讲师提供深入的专业知识，在一个特定的领域，补充其他和讲师是“集群”沿沿着主题或主题超过1-2天的跨度，以鼓励彻底覆盖一个子领域，争议和所有。在邀请演讲者时，教学能力和与学生互动的意愿也是一个严肃的考虑因素。学员（约22人）由课程主任从大量申请者中挑选。本课程为已经在视觉科学领域的科学家提供了一个不寻常的机会，加深他们的知识，制定他们的工作计划，并为那些新的系统，以加快与视觉科学的历史，模型和现代技术和理解。所有这些都使他们成为在视觉神经科学领域推动自己的研究路线的优秀候选人，这一点从大部分学生继续经营自己的独立实验室中得到了证明。该课程一直在努力，并将继续特别努力，以包括不同的参与者群体，特别注意妇女，美国少数民族和国家和国际科学家的良好平衡。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of the proposed course is to provide an in depth and modern tutorial in visual system circuits: how they work, how they develop and why and how they degenerate in specific disease states. The format of this course has been developed and updated for >20 years, in order to deliver to the students the most comprehensive, modern and impactful training in vision science and more generally, to provide a framework for thinking about sensory systems. Daily research seminars from 2 world leaders in a specific discipline of visual neuroscience provide i) a comprehensive overview of specific subfields of the visual system including a history of their exploration, ii) modern understanding o progress in each area, critical issues, and matters arising. iii) substantial opportunity for interactions between students and instructors to share ideas, ask questions and receive feedback on research past, present and future. Overall, the course emphasizes development of specific lines of inquiry in the context of existing models and technical advances. A relatively new aspect (started in the 2013 course and planned for 2015 and thereafter) is a focus on diseases of visual system and approaches to repair diseased/damaged circuits. Instructors are chosen on the basis of their long-standing and/or particularly significant contributions to the field. Each instructor provides in- depth expertise in a specific area that complements the others and the instructors are "clustered" along themes or topics over 1-2 day spans to encourage thorough coverage of a subfield, controversies and all. Teaching ability and willingness to interact with students is also a serious consideration when inviting speakers. The trainees (~22) are chosen by the course directors from a larger pool of applicants. This course provides an unusual opportunity for scientists already in vision science to deepen their knowledge and formulate plans for their work and for those new to the system, to get up to speed with the history, models and modern techniques and understanding in vision science. All this makes them excellent candidates for driving their own lines of inquiry in visual neuroscience, evidenced by the large percentage of students that go on to run their own independent labs. The course has consistently made, and will continue to make particular efforts to include a diverse group of participants, being particularly mindful of the inclusion of women, US minorities and a good balance of national and international scientists.