Neuroscience Graduate Training Program

描述：加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）神经科学研究生项目（NGP）致力于培养下一代神经科学研究人员、临床科学家和院士。在过去的20年里，加州大学圣地亚哥分校的神经科学研究生项目已经成为美国顶尖的神经科学研究生项目之一，在2010年美国国家研究委员会的排名中排名第四。该培训基金支持该项目的一年级和二年级学生，并得到了加州大学圣地亚哥分校参与部门、索尔克研究所、斯克里普斯研究所和桑福德-伯纳姆医学研究所的大力支持。这些机构都是位于托里派恩斯梅萨的世界级研究中心，加州大学圣地亚哥分校是主要的学术机构。NGP提供了一个广泛的保护伞，将所有这些机构的神经科学家联合起来。NGP为受训者提供丰富的课程，涵盖神经科学的广泛分支学科，在杰出研究者的个人实验室指导研究，以及跨不同项目的合作机会。国家计划对新出现的感兴趣领域作出反应；在过去几年中增加的一个新的正式专业是计算神经科学，它扩大了培训的范围。NGP的培训计划的结构使学生在进入该计划时与彼此以及与教师形成密切的互动。新生通过NGP新兵训练营接受强化的动手实验训练，这也为学生提供了独特的联系经验和初步接触NGP研究选择的广度。在核心课程和三个研究实验室轮转之后，学生在第一年结束时选择他们的论文论文实验室。每个学生的进步都是通过一系列完整的有凝聚力的正式评估来监控的。所有学生都要修一门科学行为和伦理的必修课。通过促进和加强学生与培训教师之间的互动的各种活动，学生们得到了丰富。每年都有职业咨询和指导。不同年级学生之间的垂直互动通过期刊俱乐部、研究轮次、由NGP学生组织和运营的著名系列研讨会以及年度招聘和静修活动来促进。NGP的招聘和录取竞争非常激烈。该计划致力于改善代表性不足的学生的招聘和保留；在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）研究生项目中，NGP在URM人数方面排名第一。这项培训补助金对加州大学圣地亚哥分校神经科学研究生培训的成功至关重要。学员科研生产力突出，有很大一部分原学员继续从事科学研究和高等教育。在接下来的五年里，加州大学圣地亚哥分校医学院设定了一个目标，通过加强机构支持来增加项目的规模，并坚定地致力于提高项目的多样性。

DESCRIPTION: The Neurosciences Graduate Program (NGP) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is committed to training the next generation of neuroscience researchers, clinician-scientists and academicians. Over the past 20 years, the UCSD NGP has become one of the top neuroscience graduate programs in the country, ranked 4th in the nation in the 2010 National Research Council ranking. This training grant supports the first- and second-year students in the program, and is endorsed by strong institutional support from the participating departments at UCSD, the Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. These institutions are world-class research centers on the Torrey Pines Mesa, with the UCSD campus as the home academic institution. The NGP provides the broad umbrella that unites neuroscientists from all these institutions. The NGP provides trainees with a rich curriculum covering a broad spectrum of sub-disciplines in neurosciences, mentored research in the individual laboratories of outstanding investigators, and collaborative opportunities across different programs. The NGP responds to emerging areas of interest; a new formal specialization that expands the scope of training is Computational Neuroscience, added in the past few years. The NGP's training plan is structured such that the students form close interactions with each other and with the faculty upon entry to the program. Incoming students receive intensive hands-on laboratory training through the NGP Boot Camp, which also gives the students a unique bonding experience and initial exposure to the breadth of NGP research options. Following the core courses and three research lab rotations, students choose their dissertation thesis labs at the end of the first year. Each student's progress is monitored through an integrated series of cohesive formal evaluations. All students take a required course for scientific conduct and ethics. Students are enriched through a variety of activities that facilitate and enhance the interactions between students and training faculty. Career advising and mentorship are in place at each successive year. Vertical interactions among students from different years are facilitated through journal club, research rounds, and a prestigious seminar series organized and run by the NGP students, and the annual recruitment and retreat activities. Recruitment and admission to NGP is highly competitive. The program makes dedicated efforts to improve the recruitment and retention of under-represented students; the NGP ranks the top in representation of URM population among the UCSD graduate programs for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). This training grant is central to the success of the UCSD neurosciences graduate training. The research productivity of the trainees is outstanding, and a large fraction of former trainees continue in scientific research and higher education. Over the next five years, the UCSD School of Medicine has set a goal to increase the size of the program through enhanced institutional support, with a strong commitment to improving the program's diversity.