Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Program in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：乔治城大学神经科学跨学科项目（IPN）是一个基础广泛，跨学科，非部门的项目，可获得神经科学博士学位。该项目成立于1994年，培养学生从事综合神经科学的学术研究，从细胞到完整的行为有机体。32名核心培训教师和17名辅助教师来自主校区和医疗中心的12个临床和基础科学部门；它们跨越了广泛的探究，从神经递质受体和信号转导，到行为和人类疾病。研究优势领域包括：1)神经损伤、退化和可塑性；2)突触调节和信号转导；4)自闭症、癫痫和成瘾的神经基础；5)端脑神经网络服务于感觉处理、记忆和语言。学生获得一系列方法的培训，包括分子，遗传，神经生理学，认知测试和成像技术。培训补助金资助预设培训（头两年8个学额）；研究补助金和个人奖学金支持论文研究。该项目招收40-50名论文和预科学生。积极招募代表性不足的种族和族裔申请人仍然是重中之重。培训环境促进教师和学员之间的互动和跨学科研究。超过40%的核心培训教师都在研究大楼附近，拥有最先进的核心设施和定制设计的实验室和办公空间。教师们高度协作；鼓励学生在兴趣相投和方法互补的教师之间寻求共同指导。所有核心培训学院都有研究经费支持和设备齐全的设施，用于培训博士生和博士后。最近几位神经科学教师被招募到药学系，以及神经科学学系的发展，扩大了培训项目所需的设备、设施和教师专业知识。培训计划包括广泛的教学课程，以及在培训教师实验室的轮岗。受训者参加一系列研讨会、全国专业会议、期刊俱乐部、密集的实验室研究，以及几种基本专业技能（写作和审查手稿、资助、指导、教学、解决冲突、职业选择、口头陈述）及其伦理方面的培训。在本科和中学阶段获得实践教学经验的机会是丰富和鼓励的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences (IPN) at Georgetown University is a broad-based, transdisciplinary, non-departmental program leading to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The program, established in 1994, trains students in the scholarly pursuit of research in integrative neuroscience, from the cell to the intact behaving organism. The 32 core training faculty and 17 supporting faculty are drawn from 12 clinical and basic science departments on the Main Campus and Medical Center; they span a breadth of inquiry, ranging from neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction, to behavior and human disease. Areas of research strengths include 1) neural injury, degeneration, and plasticity; 2) synaptic modulation and signal transduction; 4) neural substrates of autism, epilepsy, and addiction; and 5) telencephalic neural networks subserving sensory processing, memory and language. Students gain training in a range of approaches, including molecular, genetic, neurophysiological, cognitive testing, and imaging techniques. Training Grant funds support prethesis training (8 slots during the first 2 years); research grants and individual fellowships support thesis research. The program enrolls 40-50 thesis and prethesis students. Aggressive recruitment of underrepresented racial and ethnic applicants continues to be a top priority. The training environment fosters interactive, pandisciplinary research of both faculty and trainees. Over 40% of the core training faculty are in close proximity in the Research Building, with state-of-the-art core facilities and custom designed laboratory and office space. Faculty are highly collaborative; students are encouraged to seek co-mentorship between faculty with interfacing interests and complementary approaches. All core training faculty have research grant support and fully equipped facilities for training pre-and postdoctoral students. The recent recruitment of several neuroscience faculty into the Department of Pharmacology, and the growth of the Department of Neuroscience, has expanded the equipment, facilities and faculty expertise available to the training program. The training program includes broad-based didactic coursework, as well as rotations in laboratories of the training faculty. The trainees participate in a seminar series, national professional meetings, journal clubs, intensive laboratory research, and training in several essential professional skills (writing and reviewing manuscripts, grantsmanship, mentorship, teaching, conflict resolution, career choices, oral presentations) and their ethical dimensions. Opportunities for gaining practical teaching experience at the undergraduate and secondary school levels are abundant and encouraged.