Rresearch Training Program in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：由10名高级和中级研究人员组成的导师小组提出了一项新的视觉科学研究培训计划，每个人都具有研究培训经验，并且每个人都拥有由国家眼科研究所资助的积极且有竞争力的研究项目。医学院的威斯康星州（MCW）。要求每年提供3名博士前和2名博士后培训人员。其目的是为学员在眼部和视觉研究的研究事业做好准备。这要求学生对视觉系统的主要特征有广泛的，多学科的欣赏，对影响视力的疾病的当代理解，以及视觉系统实验工作的现代研究技能和技术。它还要求受训人员获得在多学科研究环境中发挥作用所需的分析和沟通技能。导师组提供视觉系统多方面的经验，从基本的感光生物学和色觉到大脑内中央视觉的组织。该计划的导师还提供了广泛的最先进的技术知识，包括分子遗传学，包括转基因动物的使用，功能性磁共振成像。博士前学员将完成分子遗传学，生物化学，细胞生物学和神经生物学的核心课程，以及“科学伦理与诚信”和“视觉的生物学和化学”的必修课程，作为在项目教师的指导下进行论文研究的前奏。博士后学员将主要在项目教师的指导下进行研究。他们还将完成“科学伦理与诚信”课程，并将有望从NIH和其他视觉相关机构单独申请博士后资金。博士前和博士后学员都将参加视觉科学的双周研究论坛/期刊俱乐部，视觉科学的月度研讨会系列和年度视觉科学研讨会。他们还将出席全国会议并提交文件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A mentor group composed of 10 senior and mid-level investigators, each with experience in research training and each with active and competitive research programs funded through the National Eye Institute, propose a new research Training Program in Vision Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). The request is for 3 pre- and 2 post-doctoral trainees annually. The objective is to prepare trainees for research careers in ocular and vision research. This requires that students have a broad, multidisciplinary appreciation of the major features of the visual system, a contemporary understanding of the diseases that impact vision, and modem research skills and technologies for experimental work in the visual system. It also requires that trainees acquire the analytical and communication skills necessary to function in a multidisciplinary research environment. The mentor group provides experience in multiple facets of the visual system, ranging from fundamental photoreceptor biology and color vision to organization of the central vision within the brain. The mentors in the program also offer a wide range of state of the art technological know-how that includes molecular genetics, including use of transgenic animals, to functional magnetic resonance imaging. Predoctoral trainees will complete a core curriculum of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology as well as required courses in "Ethics and Integrity in Science" and "The Biology and Chemistry of Vision" as a prelude to conducting dissertation research under the mentorship of a member of the program faculty. Post-doctoral trainees will primarily conduct research under the mentorship of program faculty. They will also complete a course in "Ethics and Integrity in Science", and will be expected to apply for post-doctoral funding individually from the NIH and other vision related agencies. Both pre- and post-doctoral trainees will participate in a bi-weekly Research Forum/Journal Club in Vision Science, a monthly Seminar Series in Vision Science, and an annual Vision Science Colloquium. They will also attend and present papers at National meetings.