Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

描述(由申请者提供)：为了应对对能够为听力科学问题带来创新技能和视角的科学家的日益增长的需求，我们将继续在马里兰大学帕克学院的比较和进化生物学听力方面的培训计划的基础上继续发展。我们团队中的14个核心学院带来了非常广泛的专业知识，从细胞和分子生物学到系统神经科学，这些能力使我们能够提供培训计划，不仅强调从比较和进化的角度来理解听觉系统，而且还在不同的分析水平上做到这一点。我们提出了新的方法来培训下一代科学家，他们能够将知识和方法转化为生物医学科学，使仅在单一学科内使用单一模型系统无法实现的突破成为可能。下一轮培训将重点放在翻译研究上，我们将继续扩大学员对基础研究在生物医学应用方面的欣赏，以解决人类一生中与听力有关的问题，包括听力障碍的预防、诊断和遗传学以及相关的治疗干预。核心学院来自5个系，生物学、心理学、语言学、听力和言语科学，以及电气和计算机工程。来自其他UMD项目以及NIDCD和其他地区性机构的其他兼职和附属教师与核心学院密切合作，为研究员提供进一步的研究和培训机会。该培训计划包括支持5名博士后和3名博士后实习生。博士前实习生一般处于中后期培训阶段，主要从事研究工作。博士前支持一般为1至3年。除了研究培训，学生还参加研究伦理课程、专业发展和翻译听觉科学的研讨会/课程，以及参与所有项目活动。博士后实习生的支持期限为1-2年。如果他们以前没有参加过这样的课程，他们被要求审计与博士前研究员相同的必修课程/研讨会。整个计划的重点是让受训人员接触到该计划参与实验室所做的广泛工作，并通过这种接触，更好地了解当今听力科学中所提出的问题和应用的研究方法。 相关性：对听觉系统功能的更全面的了解有望解决人类健康中一些最令人困惑和毁灭性的问题，并巩固将改变我们生活方式的系统和设备的设计。因此，CEBH培训计划将提供听力科学方面的深入和跨学科培训，为个人在基础科学和医学的界面上推进发现和创新做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to the emerging need for scientists who can bring innovative skills and perspectives to problems in the hearing sciences, we will continue to build upon our well established Training Program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. The 14 Core Faculty in our group bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise, from cellular and molecular biology to systems neuroscience, and these capabilities allow us to offer a training program that not only emphasizes a comparative and evolutionary perspective to understanding the auditory system, but also does this across different levels of analysis. We propose new approaches to train the next generation of scientists who can translate knowledge and methodologies across biomedical sciences, enabling breakthroughs that cannot be achieved through work solely within a single discipline and using a single model system. The next cycle of the training program will promote a focus on translational research, in which we will continue to expand our trainees' appreciation of the biomedical applications of basic research to solving problems concerned with hearing across the human life span, including prevention, diagnosis, and genetics of hearing impairment and relevant therapeutic interventions Core Faculty are from 5 departments, biology, psychology, linguistics, hearing and speech sciences, and electrical and computer engineering. Additional adjunct and affiliate faculty from other UMD programs, as well as NIDCD and other regional institutions, work closely with the Core Faculty and provide further research and training opportunities for fellows. The Training Program includes support for 5 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees are generally in middle to later training where they are primarily doing research. Predoctoral support is generally for 1 to 3 years. In addition to research training, students take a course in research ethics, and seminars/courses in professional development and translational auditory science, as well as participate in all program activities. Postdoctoral trainees are supported for 1-2 years. They are required to audit the same required courses/seminars as the predoctoral fellows if they have not previously had such courses. Emphasis throughout the program is to expose trainees to the breadth of work done in the program's participating labs, and through this exposure, gain a better appreciation for the range of questions being asked and research methods applied today in the hearing sciences. RELEVANCE: More complete knowledge of auditory system function promises both to solve some of the most perplexing and devastating problems of human health, and cement the design of systems and devices that will transform how we live. Accordingly, the CEBH Training Program will provide in-depth and interdisciplinary training in the hearing sciences that prepares individuals to advance discovery and innovation at the interface of basic science and medicine.