IGERT: Musculoskeletal and Neural Adaptations in Form and Function

9987619吉平和亚利桑那州立大学IGERT：形式和功能上的神经和肌肉骨骼适应这个综合教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持建立一个多学科的研究生教育和研究计划，在形式和功能上适应神经和肌肉骨骼。这一主题通过生物工程、神经生理学、体质人类学、运动科学、计算机和系统科学的综合方法进行研究。该项目的目标是向具有不同生物和工程背景的学生介绍在综合和计算神经科学、运动障碍和康复方面破译复杂现象的挑战。该计划将在应对这些挑战的研究工作中促进跨学科教育和培训。研究生培训将扩展到参与研究和教学合作的两个相关领域：(1)神经控制运动的机制，强调手的功能和运动，(2)人类手和两足动物的进化形态。围绕核心研究实验室(生物力学/解剖学、神经生理学/神经工程和计算/可视化)建立的三门跨学科课程将支撑该计划。研究培训将通过获得医学成像资源以及与主要医疗机构、生物医学企业和人类起源研究所的进化研究资源合作的基础和应用研究项目来加强。该项目满足了研究生教育的多学科需求，为神经工程、进化形态学、运动控制、立体建模和可视化领域的前沿研究创造了丰富的创新想法。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景的博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该项目旨在通过建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，19个机构被授予奖项，这些项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项的知识焦点位于工程学、生物科学、社会科学、行为学和经济学、计算机和信息科学与工程以及教育和人力资源理事会。

9987619Ji-Ping He - Arizona State UniversityIGERT: Neural and Musculoskeletal Adaptation in Forms and FunctionThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research on neural and musculoskeletal adaptation in form and function. This theme is examined with integrated approaches from bioengineering, neurophysiology, physical anthropology, exercise sciences, computer and system sciences. The goal of the program is to introduce students with diverse biological and engineering backgrounds to the challenges of deciphering complex phenomena in integrative and computational neuroscience, motor diorders and rehabilitation. The program will foster interdisciplinary education and training in research efforts toward meeting these challenges. Graduate training will expand upon two related areas in which participating faculty have developed research and teaching collaborations: (1) mechanisms underlying neural control of movements, emphasizing hand function and locomotion, and (2) evolutionary morphology of the human hand and bipedality. Three interdisciplinary courses built around core research laboratories (Biomechanics/Anatomy, Neurophysiology/Neuroengineering, and Computation/Visualization) will anchor the program. Research training will be enhanced by access to medical imaging resources and by basic and applied research projects in collaboration with leading medical institutions, biomedical enterprises and evolutionary research resources at the Institute of Human Origins. The program addresses the multidisciplinary needs of graduate education, creates a rich environment for generation of innovative ideas for leading edge research in neuroengineering, evolutionary morphology, motor control, stereo modeling and visualization. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Engineering; Biological Sciences; Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; and Education and Human Resources.