INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN THE CHEMICAL SENSES

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：自成立以来，Monell中心在化学意义上享有成功的多层次跨学科培训计划，包括高中和本科生，博士前和博士后学员以及研究员和访问科学家的教育，培训和研究。本申请要求资金支付博士后组成部分的费用。来自不同学科的研究员被接受进入该计划，在导师的监督下进行交叉培训。该方案的近期目标是使青年科学家（我们寻求为2名0级、2名1级和1名2级研究员提供支助）熟悉以前和正在进行的研究成果，并提供一个有利于进行富有成果的独立研究的环境。长期目标是提供一批训练有素的科学家，他们能够维持化学意义上的基础研究课程，或者能够在应用和/或临床环境中利用他们的培训。 相关性：在培训计划中，无论以前的背景如何，研究员都接触到中心内发现的许多学科，从分子遗传学到动物和人类行为的整体生物研究。目前，有23名教师在他们的追求，为进一步了解化学感觉系统及其对日常生活的影响，采用这些无数的实验方法。这是在不同的基础水平上完成的，在临床环境中，通过接触Monell-Jefferson化学感觉临床研究中心的患者，通过使用化学感觉功能和功能障碍的哺乳动物模型，以及通过体外测试系统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: Since its inception, the Monell Center has enjoyed a successful multi-level interdisciplinary training program in the chemical senses which consists of education, training and research by high school and undergraduate students, pre- and postdoctoral trainees and fellows and visiting scientists. This application requests funds to defray costs of the postdoctoral components only. Fellows are accepted into the Program from various disciplines to be cross-trained under the supervision of preceptors. The immediate goal of the Program is to familiarize young scientists (we seek support for 2 level-0, 2 level 1 and 1 level-2 fellows) with the results of previous and on-going investigations and to provide an environment that is conducive to fruitful independent research. The long-term goal is to provide a pool of well-trained scientists who are capable of maintaining a course of fundamental research in the chemical senses or who can utilize their training in applied and/or clinical settings. Relevance: In the Training Program, irrespective of previous background, fellows are exposed to the many disciplines found within the Center, from molecular genetics to whole organism research with animals and human behavior. Currently there are 23 faculty members employing these myriad experimental approaches in their quests for further understanding of chemosensory systems and their impact on daily lives. This is done at the vary basic level, in clinical settings via access to patients in the Monell-Jefferson Chemosensory Clinical Research Center, through the use mammalian models of chemosensory function and dysfunction, and via in vitro test systems.