Training in Fundamental Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的申请要求继续支持范德比尔特大学一个非常成功的培训项目，该项目专注于神经科学基础。该基金旨在支持14名博士预科学员，重点关注神经科学研究生项目的前两年博士培训。这个项目是医学院和文理学院的合资项目，由范德比尔特大脑研究所管理。培训计划的目标是提供一个课程，以确保每个学生都有神经科学的核心知识，涵盖从分子和细胞到高阶大脑功能的许多不同层次。除了核心知识体系外，我们希望学生成为与论文研究直接相关的神经科学领域的学者。显著的优势包括项目领导，世界一流的培训师资，优秀的学生和高度合议的培训环境。项目主管是一位著名的神经科学家有着出色的资历和出色的培训经历。该培训计划的特点是跨学科课程结合了最先进的研究机会。学生可以选择两个重点领域（分子/细胞神经科学或综合/认知神经科学），其中有重叠的入门级课程和针对特定兴趣定制的高级课程。所有受训者都参加正在进行的研讨会，每周交替举行由著名访问学者主持的神经科学研究生研讨会和由研究生作科学报告的神经科学研究论坛。第一年的研究轮转让学生有机会学习各种技术，并在决定论文研究之前了解实验室。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current application requests continuing support for a highly successful training program at Vanderbilt University that focuses on the fundamentals of neuroscience. The grant seeks support for fourteen predoctoral trainees, focusing on the first two years of Ph.D. training in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. This program is a joint venture between the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Science, administered through the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. The goal of the training program is to provide a curriculum that assures that each student has a core knowledge in neuroscience, spanning a number of different levels from molecules and cells to higher order brain function. In addition to a core body of knowledge, we expect students to become scholars in the area of neuroscience that relates directly to their thesis research. Significant strengths include program leadership, world-class training faculty, excellent students and a highly collegial training environment. The program director is a well-known neuroscientist with excellent credentials and a stellar training career. The training program is characterized by an interdisciplinary curriculum combined with state-of-the-art research opportunities. Students choose between two focus areas (Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience or Integrative/Cognitive Neuroscience), with overlapping entry-level courses with advanced courses that are tailored to a specific interest. All trainees participate in ongoing seminars, alternating weekly between the Neuroscience Graduate Seminar, presented by a renowned visiting scholar, and the Neuroscience Research Forum, in which graduate students make scientific presentations. Research rotations during the first year allow students an opportunity to learn a variety of techniques and get to know a laboratory before making a decision about a thesis research home. The 54-member training faculty, representing fifteen departments across campus, have diverse, well-funded research programs. Areas of particular specialty include synaptic mechanisms, intracellular signal transduction, neural development, sensory systems, behavior, and genetics of brain diseases. Graduates have strong publication records and are pursuing scientific careers that will address the national needs for biomedical and behavioral research relevant to brain diseases and disorders.