Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2002

这一行动为NSF 2002财年少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金的目标是为少数族裔科学家在学术界和工业界担任科学领导职位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士后获得者提供了高质量的博士后培训机会。这项计划是美国国家科学基金会的一项努力，目的是增加来自少数族裔群体的研究科学家的数量，从而为国家科学事业的未来活力做出贡献。预计通过这些奖学金培养的研究员将在未来的劳动力培训中发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和培训计划名为“神经信号跨单个神经元的转换”。这个项目解决了谷仓猫头鹰相位编码背后的单个神经元的生理和生物物理机制，特别是它们如何编码时间。首先，它将专注于验证突触后细胞中是否存在亚阈值前突触代码。其次，将确定突触的形态和生理特征。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY2002. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare minority scientists for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. This program is an effort by the NSF to increase the number of research scientists from underrepresented minority groups, thereby contributing to the future vitality of the Nation's scientific enterprise. It is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Transformation of neural signals across single neurons." This project addresses the physiological and biophysical mechanisms of individual neurons that underlie phase-coding in barn owls, specifically how they encode time. First, it will focus on verifying the presence of a subthreshold presynaptic code in postsynaptic cells. Second, morphological and physiological characteristics of the synapse will be determined.