Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Neuroscience Training Program in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.

项目总结/摘要 我们的跨学科博士前神经科学培训计划致力于提供个性化的，高质量的 培训有兴趣在生物和生物医学科学领域从事科学事业的博士前学生。 这项培训补助金将支持8名学生在他们的头两年的研究生学习，然后他们开始他们的职业生涯。 论文研究我们计划的研究生接受广泛的多学科培训， 许多层次的调查，从基因到认知，并强调概念，方法，实验 设计，定量技能和程序，以及对主要文献的复杂分析。核心课程 包括研究生课程，研讨会和讲习班，提供了坚实的科学基础， 神经科学和发展的技能，是成功的，独立的研究事业在神经科学， 例如有效的科学写作和口头报告，科学审查程序的知识，以及 伦理新的举措包括修订的咨询系统，更结构化的项目评估， 扩大量化培训。我们培养一个不受传统学科界限限制的环境， 鼓励研究生在这些学科的界面上工作。培训计划 包括39名核心参与教师和约60名博士生。教师培训师来自八个 布朗大学不同的部门：神经科学;认知，语言和心理科学; 分子生物学、细胞生物学和生物化学;工程学;分子药理学、生理学和 生物技术;生物统计学;神经病学;和神经外科学。他们是一个杰出而充满活力的群体， 脑科学家共同涵盖了现代神经科学研究的范围：他们与广泛的 从蠕虫到人类的各种模式生物，并使用一系列现代神经科学技术， 包括功能性磁共振成像，机器人和神经修复术的应用，光遗传学，先进的体内和体内 体外电生理记录，小鼠转基因，行为研究， 神经元基因、功能蛋白质组学和人类全基因组关联研究。我们鼓励和 促进实验室之间的合作以及计算和转化神经科学的研究， 通常位于学科的界面。布朗大学神经科学研究生课程的主要特点 包括：优秀研究沿着优秀的教育和指导;重点努力 解决与我们整个计划的多样性和公平性相关的缺点，包括招聘和保留 学生以及教练背景的广泛代表性;跨学科和翻译的历史 研究;在实验设计和定量方法方面的严格培训，以及高度专业化的环境。 生产性实验室，研究生在研究过程中是平等的合作伙伴。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Our Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Neuroscience Training Program strives to provide individualized, high quality training to predoctoral students interested in pursuing scientific careers in the biological and biomedical sciences. This training grant will support 8 students in their first two years of graduate studies, before they start their dissertation research. Graduate students in our program receive broad, multi-disciplinary training that spans many levels of inquiry, from genes through cognition, and emphasizes concepts, methodologies, experimental design, quantitative skills and program, and sophisticated analysis of the primary literature. Our core curriculum consists of graduate only courses, seminars, and workshops that provide a strong scientific foundation in neuroscience and develop skills that are essential for successful, independent research careers in neuroscience, such as effective science writing and oral presentation, knowledge of scientific review processes, and training in ethics. New initiatives include a revised advising system, more structured program evaluation, and greatly expanded quantitative training. We foster an environment unconstrained by traditional discipline boundaries, where graduate students are encouraged to work at the interfaces of these disciplines. The training program includes 39 core participating faculty and ~60 predoctoral trainees. The faculty trainers are drawn from eight different Brown University departments: Neuroscience; Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry; Engineering; Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology; Biostatistics; Neurology; and Neurosurgery. They are a distinguished and energetic group of brain scientists that collectively cover the spectrum of modern neuroscience research: they work with a wide variety of model organisms, from worms to humans, and use an array of modern neuroscience techniques, including functional MRI, applications of robotics and neuroprosthetics, optogenetics, advanced in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recordings, mouse transgenics, behavioral studies, molecular manipulations of neuronal genes, functional proteomics, and human genome-wide association studies. We encourage and facilitate collaborations between labs as well as research in computational and translational neuroscience that typically reside at the interface of disciplines. Key features of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Brown include: Excellence in research along with excellence in education and mentorship; a focused effort on addressing shortcomings related to diversity and equity across our program, including recruitment and retention of students as well as broad representation of trainer backgrounds; a history of interdisciplinary and translational research; rigorous training in experimental design and quantitative methods, and an environment of highly productive labs where graduate students are equal partners in the research process.