CSHL Vision: A Platform for Linking Circuits, Perception and Behavior Course

项目总结 拟议课程的主要目标是提供关于以下方面的深入和现代的教程 视觉系统的组织、结构和功能。在过去的三次迭代中 当然，新的重点已经放在视觉系统的疾病和发展 以及采用新的技术和方法来研究细胞的结构和功能 视觉系统--无论是在细胞层面还是在系统层面。课程形式在继续发展 25年后，为了提供最全面和最有效的视力培训 向学生传授科学知识，鼓励学生发展自己的思维框架 关于远见。一天被组织成主题主题(例如，色觉、运动检测 整个视觉系统)，其中两位世界知名的专家为学生提供：1) 子领域的全面概述，包括历史观点；2)描述 当前对子领域的进展、关键问题和使用中的新方法的了解；3) 在子领域内介绍前沿研究，通常是未发表的研究；以及4)充足 与教师互动的机会，以分享想法并接收对学生的反馈 自己的研究。指导员的选择是基于他们的长期和/或特别 对这一领域做出了重大贡献。每位讲师都在特定领域提供深入的专业知识 与其他领域相辅相成的领域，讲师们围绕着主题或主题聚集在一起 超过1-2天的时间跨度，以鼓励对某一子领域、争议和所有问题的全面报道。 教学能力和与学生互动的意愿也是一个严肃的考虑因素 邀请讲师。学员(约22-25人)是由课程主任从一个大群体中挑选出来的 申请者的数量。这门课程为已经有远见的科学家提供了一个不寻常的机会。 科学加深他们的知识，并为他们的工作和那些新手制定计划 系统以加快对历史、模型和现代技术的了解 视觉科学。这门课程的学生获得了无与伦比的上述知识基础和 比一般研究生院课程提供的任何东西都要好。但也许更重要的是 在他们未来的职业生涯中，学生们定义了他们研究视觉系统的框架，通常 在他们的课程经历之后开始新的调查和/或合作。 愿景课程成功的证据在于，有很大比例的学生继续 运营自己的独立实验室。课程一贯地取得了，并将继续 作出努力，包括不同的参与者群体，特别注意 吸纳妇女、美国少数族裔以及国内和国际学生的良好平衡 和指导员。

PROJECT SUMMARY The primary objective of the proposed course is to provide an in-depth and modern tutorial on the organization, structure, and function of the visual system. In the past three iterations of the course, renewed focus has been placed on diseases of the visual system and the development and implementation of novel techniques and approaches to study the structure and function of the visual system – both on a cellular and systems level. The course format continues to evolve after >25 years in order to deliver the most comprehensive and impactful training in vision science to the students and to encourage students to develop their own framework for thinking about vision. Days are organized into thematic topics (e.g. color vision, motion detection throughout the visual system) in which two world-renowned experts provide the students: 1) a comprehensive overview of the subfield including historical perspective; 2) descriptions of current understanding of progress in the subfield, critical issues, and novel methods in use; 3) presentations of cutting edge, often unpublished, research within the subfield; and 4) ample opportunities for interaction with instructors to share ideas and receive feedback on students' own research. Instructors are chosen on the basis of their longstanding and/or particularly significant contributions to the field. Each instructor provides in-depth expertise in a specific area that complements the others and the instructors are “clustered” along themes or topics over 1-2 day spans to encourage thorough coverage of a subfield, controversies and all. Teaching ability and willingness to interact with students is also a serious consideration when inviting instructors. The trainees (~22-25) are chosen by the course directors from a large pool of applicants. This course provides an unusual opportunity for scientists already in vision science to deepen their knowledge and formulate plans for their work and for those new to the system to get up to speed on the history, models, and modern techniques and understanding in vision science. Students of the course gain an unparalleled foundation of knowledge above and beyond anything offered in a typical graduate school course. But perhaps more importantly for their future careers, students define their framework for studying the visual system, often embarking on new lines of inquiry and/or collaborations following their course experience. Evidence for success of the Vision Course lies in the large percentage of students who go on to run their own independent laboratories. The course has consistently made, and will continue to make, efforts to include a diverse group of participants, being particularly mindful of the inclusion of women, US minorities and a good balance of national and international students and instructors.