Training in Fundamental Neuroscience

这项建议是为了更新范德比尔特大学的研究生培训计划，该计划旨在支持神经科学博士前教育和培训的早期阶段。为了支持NIH的整体使命，该项目的总体目标是为下一代神经科学家提供一个特殊的培训环境，并建立在强大的培训教师队伍的基础上，这些教师在奖学金、研究支持和研究生指导方面有着出色的记录。这一使命的核心体现在该项目的学术和研究目标上，即通过我们的核心课程为我们的学生提供坚实的神经科学教学基础，并为他们提供在一群非常成功和坚定的导师的实验室进行最先进的神经科学研究的机会。此外，该方案非常重视专业发展、多样性、量化素养和严谨的科学，目的是培养在研究生院及以后取得成功所需的必要技能，并培养一支包容各方的未来神经科学研究独立调查人员队伍。范德比尔特大学的神经科学研究生计划是一个跨学科的计划，包括5个不同的学院和18个系。学生可以直接或通过三个伞式“支线”计划(IGP/MSTP/CPB)进入该计划。该计划的传统和新兴研究领域包括：成瘾、注意力、脑进化、细胞信号、认知神经科学、昼夜节律和睡眠、中枢神经系统药物开发、发育、发育障碍、分子遗传学、神经变性和神经毒性、神经成像、可塑性、精神病学疾病、感觉和多感觉系统、突触传递和视觉。该项目目前有86名实习生和76名培训教师。该提案要求将支助名额从8个增加到10个，并提出了这一要求的理由和理由。

This proposal is for the renewal of a graduate training program at Vanderbilt University that is structured to support the early phases of neuroscience predoctoral education and training. In support of the overall NIH mission, the overarching objective of the program is to provide an exceptional training environment for the next generation of neuroscientists, and is built on the foundation of a strong training faculty with exceptional records of scholarship, research support and graduate mentoring. The heart of this mission is expressed in the academic and research goals of the program, which are to provide our students with a strong didactic foundation in the neurosciences through our core curriculum offerings, and to provide them with the opportunity to carry out state-of- the-art neuroscience research in the laboratories of a group of highly successful and committed mentors. In addition, the program has strong emphases on professional development, diversity, quantitative literacy and rigorous science, with the objective of building the requisite skills needed for success in graduate school and beyond, and of training an inclusive cadre of future independent investigators in neuroscience research. The Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vanderbilt is an interdisciplinary program that encompasses 5 different colleges and schools and 18 departments. Students can enter the program either directly or via three umbrella “feeder” programs (IGP/MSTP/CPB). Traditional and emerging areas of research strength in the program include: addiction, attention, brain evolution, cell signaling, cognitive neuroscience, circadian rhythms and sleep, CNS drug development, development, developmental disabilities, molecular genetics, neurodegeneration and neurotoxicity, neuroimaging, plasticity, psychiatric illness, sensory and multisensory systems, synaptic transmission, and vision. The program is currently home to 86 trainees and 76 training faculty. The proposal requests an increase in support from 8 to 10 slots and provides the rationale and justification for this request.