Predoctoral Training Program in Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：该计划将在现有的亚利桑那大学神经科学委员会的框架内，强调神经科学的跨学科博士前培训。该计划将在攻读博士学位的头两年为博士前实习生提供支持，并将重点放在神经科学的基本概念上，无论最终的专业领域如何，这些基本概念都是必不可少的。培训学院将由神经科学跨部门委员会的35名成员组成，他们是根据他们在研究和培训方面的杰出记录而被挑选出来的。培训教员在主校区和医学院的18个不同部门进行预约，这两个部门是毗邻的。课程介绍了几个学科的研究优势，包括发育神经科学、昆虫神经生物学、运动控制、认知、学习和记忆、语音产生和神经药理学。根据目前培训教师的规模和他们的研究活动水平，我们要求提供6个博士前培训职位，并提供两年的支持 给那些最有前途的新学员，希望他们接受神经科学方面的培训。所有学员将完成一套共同的核心要求，并可以选择通过神经科学的跨系博士课程(所有培训教师都参加)或通过培训教师参与的系博士课程之一获得博士学位，包括细胞生物学和解剖学、分子和细胞生物学、心理学、生理学和药理学。研究培训设施包括各个教员实验室的广泛设备和专业知识，以及亚利桑那大学的全面共享资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program will emphasize interdisciplinary predoctoral training in neuroscience within the framework of the existing Committee on Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. The program will support predoctoral trainees during the initial two years of study towards the Ph.D. degree and will focus on the fundamental concepts of neuroscience that are essential regardless of the eventual area of specialization. The training faculty will consist of 35 members of the interdepartmental Committee on Neuroscience, who were selected on the basis of their distinguished records in research and training. Training faculty members hold appointments in 18 different departments on the main campus and College of Medicine, which are contiguous. Research strengths in several disciplines are represented, including developmental neuroscience, insect neurobiology, motor control, cognition, learning and memory, speech production, and neuropharmacology. Based upon the current size of the training faculty and their level of research activity, we are requesting 6 predoctoral training positions, with two years of support being offered to the most promising new students seeking training in neuroscience. All trainees will complete a common set of core requirements, and may choose to seek the Ph.D. degree either through the interdepartmental doctoral Program in Neuroscience (in which all of the training faculty participate) or through one of the departmental doctoral programs in which the training faculty participate, including Cell Biology & Anatomy, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Psychology, Physiological Sciences and Pharmacology. Facilities for research training include the extensive equipment and expertise in individual faculty laboratories, as well as comprehensive shared resources at the University of Arizona.