Vision Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：密歇根大学的视觉研究培训计划（VRTP）旨在招募和培训将成为视觉研究领导者的学生。所有学员都在导师的实验室接受全面的研究培训。此外，通过一系列结构化的讲座，广泛的研讨会，众多的期刊俱乐部和与学术眼科医生的计划互动，VRTP提供了一个环境，帮助学生获得视觉科学的坚实基础。培训学院由13人组成，每个人都专注于视觉系统，并得到NEI的支持。培训学院的成员分布在六个基础科学部门（生物化学;细胞与发育生物学;流行病学;人类遗传学;分子，细胞与发育生物学;分子与综合生理学），两个学位授予培训计划（神经科学计划;细胞和分子生物学）和三个学校（医学;公共卫生;文学，科学和艺术）的大学。通常情况下，博士前学生在研究生院第二年开始论文研究时加入VRTP。博士后研究员获得一年的支持，同时他们在申请未来几年的独立支持时获得指导。为了使VRTP继续密歇根大学在培养科学家研究视觉系统的生物学，遗传学和生理学方面的悠久传统，要求继续支持4名博士前和2名博士后学员，重点是眼科疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Vision Research Training Program (VRTP) of the University of Michigan is designed to recruit and train students who will become leaders in vision research. All trainees receive comprehensive research training in their mentor's laboratory. In addition, through a structured series of lectures, a wide-range of seminars, numerous journal clubs and planned interactions with academic ophthalmologists, the VRTP provides an environment to help students obtain a strong foundation in the visual sciences. The Training Faculty consists of 13 individuals each of whom focuses on the visual system and is supported by the NEI. Members of the Training Faculty are distributed across six basic science departments (Biological Chemistry; Cell & Developmental Biology; Epidemiology; Human Genetics; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Molecular & Integrative Physiology), two degree-granting training programs (Neuroscience Program; Cell and Molecular Biology) and three schools (Medicine; Public Health; Literature, Science & Arts) of the University. Typically, predoctoral students join the VRTP when they commence their thesis research after the second year of graduate school. Postdoctoral fellows are supported for one year while they receive guidance in applying for independent support for future years. Continued support for 4 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral trainees is requested in order for the VRTP to continue the long tradition that the University of Michigan has in training scientists to study the biology, genetics and physiology of the visual system with an emphasis on ophthalmic diseases.