CHEMOSENSORY TRAINING PROGRAM

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请申请资金用于继续在佛罗里达州立大学(FSU)进行基础化学传感研究的培训计划。要求提供四个博士后职位和两个博士后职位。FSU神经科学项目在感觉系统，特别是化学感觉系统方面的高质量培训和研究方面有着悠久的历史。佛罗里达州立大学的培训计划坚定地将重点放在寻找基础科学知识上，而所有的临床理解都必须以此为基础。它的特点是相关教员之间研究视角的多样性和研究方法的多样性，甚至在一个研究人员的实验室内也是如此。因此，该项目为博士后和博士后实习生提供了不同寻常的机会，以探索关于化学感觉功能的重要问题的替代和补充研究方法，并在习惯于富有成效的合作的备受尊敬的教师的指导下这样做。该计划所代表的研究方法包括电生理、分子、解剖学和定量行为分析。研究支持设施也很特别；例如，电子学、计算机、电子/共焦显微镜和摄影专业人员及其设备齐全，都可以向项目成员和学员提供。除了其杰出的历史和优秀的教师队伍外，该项目的显著特点是它专注于从几个不同的角度深入和广泛地研究基础机制。受训人员有机会获得成功突破知识界限所必需的观点，并获得咨询意见和协助，以获得从事外部资助的生产性研究事业所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds for continuation of a training program in fundamental chemosensory research at Florida State University (FSU). Four positions at the predoctoral level and two positions at the postdoctoral level are requested. The FSU Neuroscience Program has a long history of high quality training and research in sensory systems, especially the chemosensory systems. The training program at FSU is firmly focused on the search for fundamental scientific knowledge, on which all clinical understanding must be based. It is characterized by a diversity of research perspectives among the associated faculty and a diversity of research methodologies even within a single investigator's laboratory. Thus, the program affords pre- and postdoctoral trainees with unusual opportunities to explore alternative and complementary research approaches to important questions about chemosensory function, and to do so under the guidance of well respected faculty used to productive collaborations. The research approaches represented in the Program include electrophysiological, molecular, anatomical, and quantitative behavioral analysis. The research support facilities are also exceptional; for example, electronics, computer, electron/confocal microscopy and photography professionals, with their fully equipped facilities, are all available to program members and trainees. The notable features of this program, other than its distinguished history and excellent faculty, are its focus on basis mechanisms studied in depth and in breadth from several different perspectives. Trainees have an opportunity to acquire the perspective that is necessary for success in pushing out the boundaries of knowledge and the advice and assistance in obtaining the skills necessary for a career in externally funded productive research.