Predoctoral Training in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份修订后的提案，旨在资助德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校神经科学研究所（INS）的神经科学既定研究生培训项目。每年要求资助五名新的博士前学员，学生在研究生培训的前两年获得该计划的支持。在此期间，学生将做实验室轮换，并在第二年结束时进入论文实验室之前完成课程要求。在奥斯汀已经建立了神经科学研究人员的临界质量，主要是由于强调这一领域的教师招聘。这些研究人员有着广泛的兴趣，但有一个共同的目标，即加强校园神经科学培训。自然科学学院、心理学系和药学院的三十四（34）名教师将参加培训。他们的研究兴趣范围从分子，通过生物化学，生理学和电生理学，到行为和计算。每个培训教师（除了刚刚被招募的初级教师）目前至少拥有一个主要的研究补助金，许多人有几个赠款。因此，进入这个研究生课程的学生有各种各样的培训选择，这也是我们课程的重要优势之一 是在合作实验室进行跨学科研究的机会。入学的学生将被要求选择实验室，他们将进行研究轮换，之后他们将根据他们的工作提出研讨会。学生还将参加一套规定的核心神经科学课程，并从各种选修课程中进行选择。研究生将被高度鼓励参加，并参加，由INS或INS调查员的不同家庭部门提供的研讨会系列过多。科学的负责任行为也将在道德课程中教授。我们将努力继续成功地招收少数民族学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised proposal for funding of an established graduate training program in neuroscience at the Institute for Neuroscience (INS) at the University of Texas at Austin. Funding is requested for five new predoctoral trainees per year, with students obtaining support from the program for their first two years of graduate training. During this time students will do laboratory rotations and complete coursework requirements before entering thesis laboratories at the end of their second years. A critical mass of neuroscience researchers has been established in Austin, largely due to an emphasis on faculty recruitment in this area. These researchers have a wide variety of interests but share a common goal of strengthening neuroscience training on campus. Thirty-four (34) faculty in the College of Natural Sciences, Department of Psychology and College of Pharmacy will participate in the training. Their research interests range from the molecular, through the biochemical, physiological and electrophysiological, to the behavioral and computational. Each of the training faculty (except for junior faculty who have just been recruited) currently holds at least one major research grant and many have several grants. Students entering this graduate program thus have a wide variety of options for training, and one of the significant strengths of our program is the opportunity for conducting cross-disciplinary research in collaborating laboratories. Incoming students will be expected to choose laboratories in which they will conduct research rotations, after which they will present seminars based on their work. Students will also take a prescribed set of core neuroscience courses as well as choose from a wide variety of elective courses. Graduate students will be highly encouraged to attend, and participate in, a plethora of seminar series offered by the INS or by the different home departments of INS investigators. The responsible conduct of science will also be taught in an ethics course. An effort will be made to 'continue our success in recruiting minority students.