TRAINING IN NEUROSCIENCE

在德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心，我们相信，一个高质量的神经科学培训计划，加强和发展未来研究人员的头脑是成功的关键。 神经科学领域的未来几年。因此，我们正在申请资金，以支持六名神经科学研究员在得克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心神经科学研究生课程学习的前两年进行研究生培训。神经科学研究生课程是一个为期五年的计划，导致博士学位。℃下该计划成立于20年前，由生物医学科学研究生院和医学院神经生物学和解剖学系联合管理，为研究员提供了广泛的神经科学知识，从基本机制到疾病和成瘾的神经生物学。该计划由在神经科学研究方面具有杰出记录的杰出教师组成，由以下部门提供支持，并强调以下研究领域：1）了解学习和记忆，神经可塑性和细胞信号的生物学基础（神经生物学和解剖学，以及综合生物学药理学和生理学）; 2）了解视觉的基本机制（眼科与视觉科学系、神经生物学与解剖学系）; 3）了解创伤引起的神经元损伤（神经外科学系）; 4）了解药物成瘾的生物学基础和药物对行为的影响（精神病学和行为科学系）。 在最初的两年期间，受训人员将学习生物医学科学的各种入门和基础核心课程，以及三门高级神经生物学课程。此外，所有学员在项目的第一年通过三个研究实验室轮换，并根据这一轮换，每个学员从参与教师中选择一名研究顾问。为了确保在随后的几年里，当论文研究正在进行实习生的参与，神经科学研究生课程主办神经科学计划实习生杂志和图书俱乐部，神经科学海报会议每年秋季举行，神经科学研究生课程研讨会系列和神经科学通讯。这些活动加上在著名的德克萨斯医学中心神经科学培训的整体丰富的环境，为我们的学员提供了一个优秀的机会，在神经科学研究生教育。

At The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, we believe that a quality neuroscience-training program that strengthens and develops the minds of future researchers is crucial to the success of the field of neuroscience for years to come. Accordingly, we are applying for funds to support the graduate training of six neuroscience fellows during their first two years of study in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. The Neuroscience Graduate Program is a five-year program leading to a Ph.D. degree. Founded 20 years ago and administered jointly by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Medical School's Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, the program provides fellows with a broad exposure to neuroscience, ranging from basic mechanisms to the neurobiology of disease and addiction. Staffed by distinguished faculty with outstanding track records in neuroscience research, the program is supported by the departments listed below and emphasizes the following areas of investigation: 1) understanding the biological basis of learning and memory, neuroplasticity and cell signaling (Departments of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Integrative Biology Pharmacology and Physiology); 2) understanding the basic mechanisms responsible for vision (Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Neurobiology and Anatomy); 3) understanding trauma-induced neuronal damage (Department of Neurosurgery); and 4) understanding the biological basis of drug addiction and the influence of drugs on behavior (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). During the initial two-year period, trainees are exposed to a broad range of introductory and foundation core courses in biomedical sciences, as well as three courses in advanced neurobiology. In addition, all trainees rotate through three research laboratories during their first year in the program, and based on this rotation, each trainee selects a research advisor from the participating faculty. To ensure trainee participation during subsequent years when dissertation research is being carried out, the Neuroscience Graduate Program hosts a Neuroscience Program Trainee Journal and Book Club, a Neuroscience Poster Session held each fall, a Neuroscience Graduate Program Seminar series and a Neuroscience Newsletter. These activities coupled with the overall rich environment for neuroscience training at the renowned Texas Medical Center provide our trainees with an outstanding opportunity for graduate education in the neurosciences.