Predoctoral Training in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份为德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校神经科学研究所（INS）已建立的神经科学研究生培训计划提供资金的修订提案。每年申请资助5名新的博士预科学员，学生们将获得该项目前两年研究生培训的支持。在此期间，学生将进行实验室轮转并完成课程要求，然后在第二学年结束时进入论文实验室。在奥斯汀已经建立了大量的神经科学研究人员，这在很大程度上是由于对该领域教师招聘的重视。这些研究人员有着广泛的兴趣，但有一个共同的目标，那就是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34名教师将参加培训。他们的研究兴趣从分子到生物化学、生理和电生理，再到行为和计算。每个培训教员（除了刚被招募的初级教员）目前至少持有一项主要研究经费，许多教员拥有多项研究经费。因此，进入研究生课程的学生有各种各样的培训选择，这是我们课程的重要优势之一

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.