Training in Learning and Memory

项目摘要/摘要 得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的学习和记忆中心(CLM)汇集了研究人员 其目标是确定支持学习和记忆的神经机制。CLM已经发展到 包括自2004年成立以来的18名教职员工。具有高度跨学科和协作性质的 CLM教师为创新和积极的学习和记忆培训计划提供了关键要素。这个 CLM教师代表了学习和记忆机制的广泛方法-从 神经信号和突触可塑性的分子到细胞和系统水平的功能研究 人类的神经成像。我们将利用这种协作教员的优势来提供有组织的培训 在严谨的研究设计和方法、最先进的量化方法和专业的 发展培训活动，为研究生和博士后培训人员创新做准备 学习和记忆研究领域的领军人物。拟议的培训将支持四名博士后和两名博士后。 每年都有博士后实习生。预计受训人员被任命参加培训计划的时间不超过 在过渡到个人助学金和奖学金之前的3年。拟议的培训有四个重要的方面 组件。首先，我们将为学员提供实施跨学科的实践指导 研究跨分析层次的学习和记忆的方法。第二，我们将广泛提供 高级统计和计算神经科学方法的培训，这些方法越来越有必要 了解支持学习和记忆的神经机制。第三，拟议的活动将 使我们的受训人员能够将他们的研究放在生物医学的背景下，重点放在 精神健康障碍中的学习和记忆过程。最后，拟议的活动和资源 为我们的学员提供许多职业发展的机会，包括获得 终身教职跟踪职位(例如，演示文稿和助学金写作技能)以及与研究相关的外部职业 学术界。这些组成部分将使我们的学员成为下一代尖端研究人员 致力于了解学习和记忆的神经生物学机制及其如何受到影响 精神健康方面的障碍。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Center for Learning and Memory (CLM) at the University of Texas at Austin brings together researchers whose goal is to identify the neural mechanisms that support learning and memory. The CLM has grown to include eighteen faculty since its inception in 2004. The highly interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the CLM faculty provide the key elements for an innovative and active training program in learning and memory. The CLM faculty represent a broad range of approaches to the mechanisms of learning and memory – from the molecules of neural signaling and synaptic plasticity to cellular and systems level studies to functional neuroimaging in humans. We will leverage the strengths of this collaborative faculty to provide structured training in rigorous research design and methodologies, state-of-the-art quantitative approaches, and professional development training activities to prepare graduate students and postdoctoral trainees to become innovative leaders in the field of learning and memory research. The proposed training will support four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees each year. Trainees are expected to be appointed to the training program for no more than 3 years before transitioning to individual grants and fellowships. The proposed training has four important components. First, we will provide our trainees with hands-on instruction in the implementation of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of learning and memory that cross levels of analysis. Second, we will provide extensive training in advanced statistical and computational neuroscience methods that are increasingly necessary to understanding the neural mechanisms that support learning and memory. Third, the proposed activities will provide our trainees with the ability to place their research in a biomedical context, with an emphasis on the role of learning and memory processes in disorders of mental health. Finally, the proposed activities and resources provide our trainees with many opportunities for career development, including the skills necessary to obtain a tenure track position (e.g., presentation and grant writing skills) as well as research-related careers outside of academia. These components will prepare our trainees to be the next generation of leading-edge researchers dedicated to understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of learning and memory and how they are impacted in disorders of mental health.