Developmental Psychobiology and Neurobiology Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：这项提案要求在导师奖励计划的支持下，在发育心理生物学和神经生物学方面继续提供非常成功的跨学科培训赠款。博士后和博士后实习生为从事研究和教学工作做好准备。以前的实习生在获得学术或某些情况下的行业职位方面有着良好的记录。培训项目强调广泛而深入的研究文献知识和方法的复杂性，学生在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校注册神经科学或生物心理学博士项目。一个教师委员会指导每个博士后和博士后学员的培训，制定适合学员当前准备状态和未来目标的个性化培训计划。为了培养口语交流技能，每位学员每年至少举办一次研讨会，向包括其他学员在内的研讨会小组描述她/他的研究和活动 他们的顾问和实习生委员会的成员。参加培训计划的所有教职员工 神经科学计划的成员。包括PI/PD在内的两个主要教员是 国家科学院成员和其他许多人在他们的专业组织中获得了研究员身份或其他成就标志。帕金森病在神经发育和可塑性领域非常著名，并通过他对脆性X综合征的工作提供了“翻译”经验。其他几个教职员工也在开发类似的翻译研究路线。负责任的科学行为指导包括参加研究生课程--MCB 580--“研究道德与责任”，以及由教师导师进行个人培训。大量的努力使我们能够吸引优秀的少数族裔学员，一些以前的少数族裔学员成功地在主要大学获得了教员职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests continued support of a highly successful interdisciplinary training grant in Developmental Psychobiology and Neurobiology under the auspices of the MENTOR award program. Pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees are prepared for research and teaching careers. Former trainees have an excellent track record in obtaining academic or in some cases industry positions. Broad and deep knowledge of research literature and methodological sophistication are emphasized in the training program, in which students are enrolled in the Neuroscience or Biological Psychology Ph.D. programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A faculty committee guides the training of each pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainee, developing an individualized training program appropriate to the trainee's current state of preparation and future goals. To build skills in oral communication, each trainee will present at least one seminar each year describing her/his research and activities to a seminar group that includes other trainees and their advisors and members of the trainee's committee. All faculty in the training program are members of the Neuroscience Program. Two of the primary faculty, including the PI/PD, are members of the National Academy of Sciences, and many others have received fellow status or other indications of accomplishment within their professional organizations. The PD is very well known in the field of neural development and plasticity and provides "translational" experience through his work on fragile X syndrome. Several other faculty are similarly developing translational lines of research. Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Science includes both enrollment in a graduate course, MCB 580 - "Research Ethics and Responsibilities" and individual training by the faculty mentor. Substantial efforts have allowed us to attract outstanding minority trainees, and a number of former minority trainees have successfully obtained faculty positions at major universities.