Sensory Mechanisms and Disorders

描述（申请人提供）：本培训项目面向博士生和博士后，提供听力、平衡和化学感官（HBCS）的跨学科教育和研究经验。博士前培训以16个学术部门和授予学位的研究生课程之一为基础，这些课程与23个培训学院相关联。博士论文研究和博士后研究培训主要在导师的实验室进行。我们的附属教师在每个相应学科提供优秀的培训：生物工程，细胞和分子生物学，遗传学，分子和神经生理学，发育生物学和感觉处理的生物心理学。HBCS项目将听觉、前庭和化学感觉研究的研究人员与来自这些学科的学员结合起来，从而为听力、平衡、味觉和嗅觉的机制和障碍提供创新的培训机会。跨学科整合是通过以下培训计划实现的：a)感官系统的入门和高级课程；b)由密歇根大学内外专家举办的有关听力、平衡和化学感官的研讨会；C)学生和教师研讨会、期刊俱乐部和研究论坛；d)接触耳鼻喉科的临床研究问题和密歇根大学医学院可用的临床/转化资源，以及e)研究标准和伦理方面的培训。申请培养博士预科生4名、博士后3名。博士预科生将从培训学院附属院系和项目中最优秀的研究生中选拔。对感官系统研究的兴趣和动机将是一个重要的选择标准。博士后培训生（博士，医学博士或D.D.S.）将从对感官生物学有强烈承诺和有前景的研究背景的申请人中选择。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows provides an interdisciplinary education and research experience in hearing, balance and chemical senses (HBCS). Predoctoral training is based in one of the 16 academic departments and degree-granting graduate programs with which the 23 training faculty are associated. Doctoral thesis research and postdoctoral research training reside primarily within the laboratories of the mentors. Our affiliated faculty provides outstanding training in each of their corresponding disciplines: bioengineering, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, molecular and neurophysiology, developmental biology, and biopsychology of sensory processing. The HBCS program integrates investigators in auditory, vestibular, and chemosensory research with trainees from across these disciplines and thereby fosters innovative training opportunities into mechanisms and disorders of hearing, balance, taste and smell. Cross- disciplinary integration is made possible by the training program through: a) introductory and advanced courses in sensory systems; b) seminars relevant to hearing, balance and chemical senses from experts within and outside the University of Michigan; c) student and faculty seminars, journal clubs and research forums; d) exposure to clinical research issues in Otolaryngology and clinical/translational resources available at the University of Michigan Medical School, and e) training in research standards and ethics. Support for 4 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees is requested. Predoctoral trainees will be selected from the most highly qualified graduate students in the training faculty's affiliated departments and programs. Interest and motivation for research in sensory systems will be an important selection criterion. Postdoctoral trainees (Ph.D., M.D., or D.D.S.) will be selected from applicants with a strong commitment to sensory biology and promising research backgrounds.