Quantitative Neurobiology at the University of Texas at San Antonio

我们建议在圣安东尼奥的德克萨斯大学进行SNRP。UTSA是一个年轻的机构，致力于神经科学研究生培训和研究的快速增长，并强调定量和计算研究。在过去的3年中，UTSA的生物学系从全国最好的实验室中聘请了6名有前途的年轻终身制神经生物学教师，代表神经科学学科的一个横截面，并在我们的机构内推进神经科学。这些新科学家中的大多数是助理教授，他们以前从未担任过教职。在接下来的5年里，我们致力于聘请5个额外的终身制神经科学家，他们的研究兴趣是理解神经系统功能和疾病的基础，包括运动的神经控制，中枢模式生成，成人神经系统的结构可塑性，离子通道结构和功能，以及行为遗传学。 在我们的神经科学组快速增长的这段时间里，我们设想SNRP作为UTSA神经科学社区的中心。该计划将发展UTSA研究人员及其在其他机构的合作者的社区。它将通过提供数字和图像数据的设计，收集和定量分析方面的资源和专业知识，支持为神经生物学研究量身定制的共享研究基础设施。我们将提供培训和领导，以促进我们有前途的新教师的发展。我们将为他们的合作试点研究提供重要的评估，建议和支持，在建立新实验室时出现的行政和管理问题上提供指导和直接帮助。SNRP领导层还将在学院和大学一级为他们的利益辩护，因为他们建立了独立的研究计划，并发展成为富有成效的管理人员，科学家和学者。SNRP的第二个重点将是提供补充神经生物学博士课程的培训机会，包括研讨会，研讨会和为期一年的竞争性培训奖学金，为有兴趣在我们的课程中进行高级数学或统计研究的学生提供。

We propose a SNRP at the University of Texas at San Antonio. UTSA is a young institution with a commitment to rapid growth in graduate training and research in Neuroscience, and an emphasis on quantitative and computational research. In the past 3 years the Department of Biology at UTSA has hired 6 promising young tenure-track neurobiology faculty from among the best labs in the country to represent a cross-section of neuroscience disciplines and advance Neuroscience within our institution. Most of these new scientists are assistant professors, who have never previously held faculty positions. In the upcoming 5 years we are committed to hiring 5 additional tenure-track Neuroscientists with research interests in topics fundamental to the understanding of nervous system function and disorders, including neural control of movement, central pattern generation, structural plasticity in the adult nervous system, ion channel structure and function, and behavioral genetics. During this time of rapid growth of our Neuroscience group, we envision the SNRP functioning as the center of the Neuroscience community at UTSA. The program will develop a community of UTSA researchers and their collaborators at other institutions. It will support a shared research infrastructure tailored to Neurobiology research by providing resources and expertise in the design, collection and quantitative analysis of numerical and image data. We will offer training and leadership to foster the development of our promising new faculty. We will provide critical evaluation, advice and support for their collaborative pilot research, by providing guidance and direct help in the administrative and management issues that arise in establishing their new laboratories. The SNRP leadership will also act as an advocate for their interests at the college and university levels as they establish their independent research programs and develop into productive managers, scientists and scholars. A second focus of the SNRP will be to provide training opportunities that supplement the Neurobiology Ph.D program, including seminars, symposia, and year-long competitive training fellowships for students interested in pursuing advanced mathematical or statistical studies while in our program.