Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience

 描述(由申请人提供)：此申请申请资金继续在匹兹堡大学的听觉和前庭神经科学的培训计划。请拨资源，每年支持两名博士后和两名博士后实习生。虽然在确定内耳缺陷的遗传和分子基础方面已经取得了相当大的进展，但中枢性听力和平衡障碍的生物学基础仍然存在，这些障碍越来越被认为是导致听力和前庭功能障碍的主要因素。 人们对此知之甚少。拟议的计划旨在培养能够通过基础神经科学以及听力和平衡障碍的临床方面的培训来解决这些问题的听觉和前庭科学家。一个由15名导师组成的小组将组成培训教师，他们致力于听觉和前庭神经科学研究，并招募和培养优秀的博士后和博士后研究员。受训者采用的研究方法从细胞和分子到发育到系统，再到使用各种模型系统的认知，确保受训者接触到定义该领域现代研究的技术和概念方法的广度和多样性。除了进行研究外，学员还参加每月的研究研讨会，并参加一系列专业发展研讨会，这些研讨会提供书面和口头沟通、获得工作和补助金、教学和管理研究实验室等“生存技能”的明确培训。所有学员必须提交一份奖学金申请，作为该计划的一部分，写作 将通过与提供咨询和指导的地方委员会定期举行会议以及利用学术职业发展办公室提供的赠款编写讲习班来促进这方面的工作。负责任的科学行为培训是专业人员不可或缺的一部分 发展讲习班、核心课程和实验室培训。已经建立了一个坚实的结构来指导受训人员并监测他们在整个计划中的进展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to continue a training program in auditory and vestibular neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Resources to support two predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year are requested. While considerable progress has been made in identifying the genetic and molecular bases of inner ear deficits, the biological bases of centrally-generated hearing and balance disorders, which are increasingly recognized as major contributors to auditory and vestibular dysfunction, are still poorly understood. The proposed program is intended to generate auditory and vestibular scientists who can address these problems, through training in basic neuroscience and the clinical aspects of hearing and balance disorders. A group of 15 preceptors who are committed to auditory and vestibular neuroscience research and to recruit and educate outstanding pre- and postdoctoral fellows will comprise the training faculty. The research methodology employed by the preceptors ranges from cellular and molecular to developmental to systems and cognition using a variety of model systems, ensuring that trainees use are exposed to the breadth and variety of technical and conceptual approaches that define modern research in the field. In addition to conducting research, trainees attend monthly research seminars, and participate in a series of professional development workshops that provide explicit training in such "survival skills" as written and oral communication, obtaining jobs and grants, teaching, and managing a research lab. All trainees must submit a fellowship application as part of the program, the writing of which will be facilitated by periodic meetings with a local committee that provides advice and guidance, as well as utilizing grant-writing workshops provided by the office of academic career development. Training in the responsible scientific conduct is an integral part of the professional development workshops, the core curriculum, and laboratory training. A solid structure is in place to mentor the trainees and monitor their progress through the program.