Training Program in Neuroscience

描述(由申请者提供)：西奈山的神经科学培训计划为一年级和二年级的博士前学生提供激动人心的课程，由国内和国际公认的教师授课，以及建立在翻译神经科学、基础神经生物学、精神病学和神经学专业知识基础上的实验室经验，由于西奈山医院和西奈山伊坎医学院临床和基础神经科学研究的密切结合，所有这些都是相互联系的。神经科学培训计划的核心是西奈山的神经科学博士，这是该校第二个授予博士学位的项目，以及一批优秀的培训教师，他们有着共同的主题兴趣：研究特定神经回路的功能和可塑性，在发育过程中，在成人中，以及在老年人、疾病或退化的神经系统中。在这项T32培训计划的最初资助期内，随着弗里德曼脑研究所的成立和赫斯科学与医学中心的成立，研究空间和神经科学培训教师的数量大幅增加。西奈山的各种实验室机会利用了翻译神经科学的优势，特别是在发育神经生物学、神经衰老和退化、神经精神疾病的机制、认知神经科学、计算神经科学和神经成像、感觉信号转导、神经内分泌学以及突触和行为可塑性方面的优势。神经系统在不同的模型系统中进行了研究，从海螺再生障碍症、果蝇或其他简单的无脊椎动物。 线虫，一直到包括非人灵长类和人类在内的复杂脊椎动物。学生将在积极促进多学科综合研究的协作环境中，获得基础神经科学和疾病神经生物学的坚实基础。使用这种跨学科的方法，神经科学培训计划将为学生提供必要的知识和实验工具，以便在我们培训教师的实验室开始富有成效的独立职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Training Program offers Year 1 and Year 2 predoctoral students an exciting curriculum taught by a nationally and internationally recognized faculty, and a laboratory experience that builds on expertise in translational neuroscience, basic neurobiology, psychiatry and neurology, all uniquely 'interfaced' with one another due to close apposition of clinical and basic neuroscience research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At the heart of the Neuroscience Training Program are Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Ph.D., the school's second Ph.D. granting program, and a superb training faculty who share a common thematic interest: study of the function and plasticity of specific neural circuits, during development, in he adult, and in the aged, diseased or degenerating nervous system. During the initial funding period of this T32 training program, research space and Neuroscience training faculty number substantially expanded with the founding of the Friedman Brain Institute and opening of the Hess Center for Science and Medicine. Varied laboratory opportunities at Mount Sinai take advantage of strengths in translational neuroscience, notably in developmental neurobiology, neural aging and degeneration, mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience and neuroimaging, sensory signal transduction, neuroendocrinology and synaptic and behavioral plasticity. The nervous system is studied in diverse model systems, from 'simple' invertebrates such as the sea snail Aplasia, the fruit fly, or the worm C. elegans, all the way to complex vertebrates including nonhuman primates and humans. Students will receive a strong foundation in basic neuroscience and the neurobiology of disease, in a collaborative environment that actively promotes multidisciplinary, integrative research. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the Neuroscience Training Program will provide students with the essential knowledge and experimental tools to initiate productive, independent careers in the laboratories of our training faculty.