Simple Vertebrate and Invertebrate Systems

描述(改编自申请人提供的摘要)：这是一个 广泛的神经生物学多学科培训计划，现在是 进入了哥伦比亚大学的第23个年头。该项目包括博士前和博士后 博士后部分。这是各部门之间的合作努力。 解剖学和细胞生物学，神经生物学和行为中心，以及 生物系。神经生物学和行为中心现在的作用是 这是哥伦比亚大学大多数神经科学家关注的焦点。这一变化， 随后扩大了中心，并增加了 生物系大大加强了哥伦比亚大学的S计划 神经科学。该大学还作出重大承诺，继续 通过提供物质资助和支持，在神经生物学领域取得卓越成就。许多 通过这三个项目，学员可以获得设施和资源 参赛单位。一项重要的改进是核心成像设施。 尽管多年来这一计划发生了变化，但领导层的稳定 一直保持着。因此，新的教员在没有改变的情况下增加了活力 这是节目的重点。主要目标仍然是为学员提供 接触神经科学的多个学科。代表的学科 包括分子生物学、发育神经科学、神经解剖学(包括 新开发的成像方法)，神经化学，神经免疫学， 神经药理学、神经生理学、生物物理学和行为分析。这个 培训计划有一支研究兴趣具有代表性的教职员工 现代神经科学的大多数主要方法。其中包括重组 DNA技术，膜片钳分析，电子显微镜，免疫细胞化学， 细胞内离子的荧光分析，细胞培养，以及 追踪神经元的相互连接和移行的神经细胞和 神经胶质细胞。培训中最有价值的一个要素就是研究工作 在教职员工的赞助下。一个重要的变化是 加强和加强对博士前和博士后的正式监测 博士后实习生。联合赞助和学员自由转学 实验室之间的联系是频繁的。辅导式培训的补充是 核心课程和选修课程，研讨会系列(在两个参与者中各有一个， 单位)，学员和成员所作的研究进展报告 教职员工、期刊俱乐部，以及新推出的(非常受欢迎的)年度静修活动。 建议将博士后计划的规模扩大到6人 博士后实习生，因为申请人数大幅增加 已经发生的培训，教职员工对提供 培训，以及大学对该计划的更大承诺 (包括提供补充支助)。已进入的受训人员 该计划使其做好了充分的准备，并对以下职位有很大的需求 学术界和工业界。几乎所有受训人员都继续在 生物医学科学和一些已经获得了领导地位。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Abstract Provided By Applicant): This is a broadly-based multidisciplinary training program in Neurobiology that is now entering its 23rd year at Columbia. The program has both predoctoral and post-doctoral components. It is a cooperative effort between the Departments of Anatomy & Cell Biology, the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and the Department of Biology. The Center for Neurobiology and Behavior now serves as the focal point for most of the neuroscientists at Columbia. This change, the consequent enlargement of the Center, and the addition of members of the Department of Biology have greatly strengthened Columbia?s program in Neuroscience. The University has also made a major commitment to continuing excellence in neurobiology by providing material funding and support. Many facilities and resources are available to the trainees through the three participating units. An important improvement has been a core imaging facility. Although the program has changed over the years, stability in the leadership has been maintained. The new faculty have thus added vitality without altering the focus of the program. The major goal is still to provide trainees with exposure to more than one discipline of neuroscience. Disciplines represented include molecular biology, developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy (including newly developed methods of imaging), neurochemistry, neuroimmunology, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, biophysics, and behavioral analysis. The training program has a faculty whose research interests are representative of most of the major approaches to modern neuroscience. These include recombinant DNA technology, patch-clamp analyses, electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry, fluorescence assay of intracellular ions, cell culture, as well as methods of tracing neuronal interconnections and the movements of migrating neural and glial cells. The single most valuable element of training is research done under the sponsorship of members of the faculty. An important change has been to enhance and strengthen the formal monitoring of both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees. Joint sponsorship and the free transfer of trainees between laboratories is frequent. Training by mentorship is supplemented by core and elective courses, seminar series (in each of the 2 participating, units), research progress reports given by trainees and by members of the faculty, journal clubs, and a newly introduced (very popular) annual retreat. It is proposed that the size of the post-doctoral program be expanded, to 6 post-doctoral trainees, because of the large increase in applications for training that has occurred, the strong interest of the faculty in providing training, and the enhanced commitment of the University to the program (including the provision of supplemental support). Trainees that have entered the program have left it well prepared and much in demand for positions in academia and industry. Almost all trainees have continued to be productive in biomedical science and some have acquired leadership positions.