PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

纽约州立大学石溪分校的神经生物学和行为学博士前培训项目旨在为对神经科学职业感兴趣的学生提供广泛的培训机会。学生可以从他们的本科培训或通过医学博士项目进入。几名来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生已经进入该项目，并已经毕业或正在取得良好的进步。受训者在几个方面受益于项目的广度。在最初的两年里，他们选修了一门按功能(视觉、运动)而不是按传统学科(生理学、解剖学)组织的非常广泛的神经科学课程。在最初的几年里，他们可以对各种各样的研究实验室进行抽样，包括分子神经生物学、细胞神经生物学、发育神经生物学、系统神经生物学和行为神经科学。在选择其中一个实验室进行论文研究后，鼓励他们根据需要与其他实验室合作，使用他们的论文实验室没有的技术。在他们居住的整个期间，他们的计划都丰富了活跃的研讨会计划、期刊俱乐部、年度静修、数据口头演示课程和科学伦理课程。虽然该计划的主要目标是培养学生进行独立研究，但所有学生都必须在本科生物学专业担任两个学期的助教，为他们提供宝贵的教学培训，这增加了他们对四年制大学职位的渴望。为了进行这项培训，该计划召集了一支约40人的培训队伍，代表石溪大学神经生物学和行为系以及7个不同的系。最近加入该项目教职的是冷泉港实验室的神经科学小组。开展研究培训的设施可以通过参与的实验室获得，也可以通过与该计划相关的部门以及更集中地通过大学维护的中央设施来获得。学生们在《自然》、《细胞》、《神经元》和《神经科学杂志》等期刊上发表了他们的研究成果。此外，该方案成功地将其毕业生安置在优秀的博士后职位上，并有几个人获得了大学、医学院或学院的独立教师职位。培训补助金将主要用于在教学培训的最初几年支持学生。

The university-wide predoctoral training program in neurobiology and behavior at the State University of New York Stony Brook is designed to provide broad training opportunities for students interested in careers in the neurosciences. Students can enter from their undergraduate training or through the M.D.-Ph.D. Program. Several students from underrepresented minorities have entered the program and have graduated or are making good progress. Trainees benefit from program breadth in several ways. In the initial 2 years they take a very broad neuroscience course organized by function (vision, motion) rather than by traditional discipline (physiology, anatomy). During these initial years they can sample a wide variety of research laboratories including molecular neurobiology, cellular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology, systems neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience. After choosing one of these laboratories for their thesis research, they are encouraged to collaborate as required with other laboratories using techniques that are not available in their thesis laboratory. Throughout their period of residence their program is enriched with an active seminar program, journal clubs, a yearly retreat, a course in oral presentation of data and a course in scientific ethics. Although a major aim of the program is to train students to do independent research, all students must serve as teaching assistants in undergraduate biology for 2 semesters providing them with valuable training in teaching which increases their desirability for positions in 4-year colleges. In order to carry out this training the program has assembled a training faculty of about 40 representing the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and 7 different departments at Stony Brook. A recent addition to the Program faculty is the Neuroscience Group at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Facilities for carrying out research training are available through the participating laboratories as well as centralized facilities maintained through departments associated with the program as well as more centrally through the University. Students have published their research in journals among which are Nature, Cell, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience. In addition, the Program has succeeded in placing its graduates in excellent postdoctoral positions and several have obtained independent faculty positions in universities, medical schools or colleges. The stipends from the training grant are to be used mainly to support students during the initial years of didactic training.