Training Program for the Visual Sciences

项目摘要/摘要(说明) 我们建议继续实施成功的博士前培训计划，并 视觉科学博士后研究员。培训计划的核心是紧密结合的 通过加州大学旧金山分校的神经科学研究生项目。重点将放在培训上 将应用现代生物学方法研究视觉问题的学生和研究员 科学。所有学员将在其导师的实验室接受全面的研究培训。 此外，受训人员还将获得视觉科学和 现代生物学通过正规的课程工作、研讨会、期刊俱乐部以及与临床医生的接触 以及加州大学旧金山分校医学院的基础科学教员。该校的所有教职员工 培训计划是神经科学计划的成员之一的知名科学家。多数 的教职员工还与加州大学旧金山分校的其他研究生项目有关联。其中八个 培训教员也是眼科的成员，其中七人有 科勒特远景大楼附近的实验室。其中12名教职员工收到了他们的 主要研究资金来自国家眼科研究所。全体教职员工的研究兴趣 包含或补充视觉科学的一个或多个领域， 博士前实习生将在选择研究导师并遵循以下条件后被选中 完成神经科学核心课程和3次实验室研究轮换。的进展。 博士前实习生将由一个论文委员会和视力培训计划进行监督。 博士后研究员将加入并主要在选定的教员的实验室进行培训 成员。与其他培训学院的实验室或 医学院，将受到强烈的鼓励。这样的合作是一个强大的传统 加州大学旧金山分校。 加州大学旧金山分校特别适合这一培训计划，因为它的实力 分子生物学、细胞生物学、分子遗传学和 神经科学，以及视觉科学中基础广泛的研究的质量。 成功培养博士后和博士后的模范记录 由远见培训基金的导师们展示了我们项目的能力和奉献精神。 在视力培训实验室完成培训的78名博士后研究员中 在过去的10年里，57%的教师目前在大学担任独立的学术职位， 医学院和专门的生物医学研究机构，如东京的理研。另一个 14%的人在学术环境中从事研究，另有14%的人在工业领域工作 与生物医药产品相关的公司。美国国立卫生研究院继续为这笔培训补助金提供支持 将是使我们能够继续为未来培训科学家和院士的关键。

Project Summary/Abstract (Description) We propose to continue a successful Training Program for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the visual sciences. The core of the training program is coupled strongly with and through the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF. The emphasis will be on training students and fellows who will apply modern biological methods to research problems in the visual sciences. All trainees will receive comprehensive research training in the laboratory of their mentor. Additionally, trainees will receive a strong foundation in visual sciences and the disciplines of modern biology through formal course work, seminars, journal clubs, and contacts with the clinical and basic science faculty at the UCSF School of Medicine. All of the faculty members of the Training Program are established scientists who are members of the Neuroscience Program. Most of the faculty members also have affiliations with other graduate programs at UCSF. Eight of the training faculty are also members of the Department of Ophthalmology, and seven of these have neighboring laboratories in the Koret Vision Building. Twelve of the faculty members receive their primary research funding from the National Eye Institute. The research interests of the entire faculty encompass or complement one or more areas of the visual sciences, Predoctoral trainees will be selected after choosing a research mentor and following completion of the Neuroscience Core courses and 3-laboratory research rotations. The progress of predoctoral trainees will be monitored by a thesis committee and by the Vision Training Program. Postdoctoral fellows will join and train primarily in the laboratory of a selected faculty member. Collaboration with the laboratories of other training faculty, or other faculty within the School of Medicine, will be strongly encouraged. Such collaborations are a strong tradition at UCSF. UCSF is particularly well suited for this Training Program because of the strength of its research and graduate training in molecular biology, cell biology, molecular genetics, and neurosciences, and because of the quality of broad-based research in the visual sciences. The exemplary record of successful training of predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows by the mentors on the Vision Training Grant shows the capabilities and dedication of our program. Of the 78 postdoctoral fellows who have completed training in the labs of the Vision Training Faculty in the last 10 years, 57% are presently in independent academic positions at universities, medical schools and dedicated biomedical research institutes such as the Riken in Tokyo. Another 14% remain in research in an academic setting and another 14% have taken an industrial position in companies associated with biomedical products. Continued NIH support for this training grant will be essential for enabling us to continue training scientists and academicians for the future.