NEURAL SYSTEMS AND BEHAVIOR

自1978年以来，神经系统和行为(NS和B)暑期课程在 海洋生物实验室一直在提供强化培训 在现代行为神经生物学的概念和方法论中 优秀的博士后和博士后早期学生 从事研究工作。20名学生在课堂上沉浸了8周。 在一些最好的老师的指导下进行实验室工作 和该领域的研究人员，通过受邀的研讨会演讲者和 驻校学者。这种高度集成和交互的格式 在标准的大学培训中很少有。学生们来了 来自不同的背景，包括神经科学，生物学，心理学， 医学、数学、物理和工程学。新任联席董事 在1995年担任该课程的领导层后，一直保持着传统的 NS和B的核心优势，同时纳入新的练习和 教职员工。广泛的动手实验室培训，拥有最先进的 设备包括各种无脊椎动物和脊椎动物 准备工作。实验室部分，分为四个部分，为期2周 循环始于基本的电生理学技术。学生 然后继续研究神经调节和神经重构。 神经回路，听觉信息的接收和处理 在三个互补的准备中学习，学习和记忆 在行为、神经元群体和突触水平上进行了研究。在……里面 除了传统的电生理学技术，学生们还可以学到 贴片和全细胞记录，定量行为分析 正常和基因敲除小鼠，自由-多电极记录- 啮齿动物在空间学习过程中的行为，原位细胞内 脊椎动物大脑录制，脑切片录制，计算 复杂系统的方法、计算机化的数据采集和 分析、细胞培养记录和神经解剖学技术 包括原位杂交。过去的课程评估和 最近的NS和B级校友/考试表明，这门课程非常有效 在为学生的创造性和富有成效的研究职业生涯做准备方面 神经生物学和行为学。需要资金来继续这一独特的 目前形式的培训机会。

Since 1978, the Neural Systems and Behavior (NS and B) summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory has been providing intensive training in the concepts and methodology of modern behavioral neurobiology to outstanding pre- and postdoctoral students during early stages of their research careers. Twenty students are immersed for 8 weeks in lectures and laboratory work under the mentorship of some of the best teachers and researchers in the field, augmented by invited seminar speakers and Scholars-in-Residence. This highly integrated and interactive format is rarely available during standard university training. Students come from diverse backgrounds including neuroscience, biology, psychology, medicine, mathematics, physics and engineering. New Co-Directors who assumed leadership of the course in 1995 have maintained the traditional core strengths of NS and B while incorporating new exercises and faculty. Extensive hands-on laboratory training with state-of-the-art equipment includes a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate preparations. The laboratory section, which is divided into four 2-week Cycles begins with fundamental electrophysiological techniques. Students then move on to investigate neuromodulation and reconfiguration of neural circuits, the reception and processing of auditory information studied in three complementary preparations, and learning and memory studied at the behavioral, neuronal population and synaptic levels. In addition to conventional electrophysiological techniques, students learn patch and whole-cell recordings, quantitative behavioral analyses of normal and knockout mice, multi-electrode recordings from freely- behaving rodents during spatial learning, in situ intracellular recording from vertebrate brain, brain slice recordings, computational approaches to complex systems, computerized data acquisition and analysis, cell culture recordings, and neuroanatomical techniques including in situ hybridization. Course evaluations from past and recent NS and B alumni/ae suggest that the course is highly effective in preparing students for creative and productive research careers in neurobiology and behavior. Funding is requested to continue this unique training opportunity in its present form.