Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

 描述（由申请人提供）：在响应科学家谁可以带来创新的技能和观点，在听力科学的问题出现的需求，我们继续建立在我们完善的听力比较和进化生物学培训计划在马里兰州，学院公园大学。我们团队的17名核心教师带来了非常广泛的专业知识，从细胞和分子生物学到系统神经科学，同时也展示了培养学生的成功记录。这些能力使我们能够提供一个培训计划，不仅强调比较和进化的角度来理解听觉系统，而且还在不同的分析水平上这样做。我们提出了新的方法来培养下一代科学家，将知识和方法转化为生物医学科学，实现突破，这是通过局限于单一学科和使用单一模型系统无法实现的。我们的培训计划的下一个周期促进了对转化研究的关注，我们将继续扩大我们的学员对基础研究的生物医学应用的理解，以解决与人类寿命有关的听力问题，包括听力障碍的预防，诊断和遗传学以及相关的治疗干预。核心教师来自四个部门：生物学，心理学，听力和语言科学，电气和计算机工程。来自其他UMD项目，NIDCD和其他区域机构，如马里兰州-巴尔的摩大学（UMB）和沃尔特里德国家军事医学中心的其他相关教师与核心教师密切合作，并为博士前和博士后学员提供进一步的研究和培训机会。培训方案包括为五名博士前和三名博士后学员提供支助。博士预科生一般选择在中期到后期的培训年，当他们主要从事研究。除了研究培训，所有学员参加听力和研究道德的基础课程，参加专业发展和翻译听觉科学的研讨会/课程，以及参加所有计划活动。整个计划的重点是让学员接触到该计划参与实验室所做工作的广度，并通过这种接触，更好地了解当今听力科学中所提出的问题和跨学科研究方法。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to an emerging need for scientists who can bring innovative skills and perspectives to problems in the hearing sciences, we continue to build upon our well established Training Program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. The 17 Core Faculty in our group bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise, from cellular and molecular biology to systems neuroscience, while also demonstrating a successful track record in training students. These capabilities allow us to offer a training program that not only emphasizes a comparative and evolutionary perspective to understanding the auditory system, but also does so across different levels of analysis. We propose new approaches to train the next generation of scientists to translate knowledge and methodologies across biomedical sciences, enabling breakthroughs that cannot be achieved through work confined to a single discipline and using a single model system. The next cycle of our training program promotes a focus on translational research, in which we will continue to expand our trainees' appreciation of the biomedical applications of basic research to solving problems concerned with hearing across the human life span, including prevention, diagnosis, and genetics of hearing impairment and relevant therapeutic interventions. Core Faculty are from four departments: biology, psychology, hearing and speech sciences, and electrical and computer engineering. Additional associated faculty from other UMD programs, NIDCD, and other regional institutions, such as the University of Maryland- Baltimore (UMB) and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, work closely with the Core Faculty and provide further research and training opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral trainees. The Training Program includes support for five predoctoral and three postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees are generally selected in middle to later training years, when they are primarily engaged in research. In addition to research training, all trainees take courses in the fundamentals of hearing and research ethics, attend seminars/courses in professional development and translational auditory science, as well as participate in all program activities. Emphasis throughout the program is to expose trainees to the breadth of work done in the program's participating labs, and through this exposure, gain a better appreciation for the range of questions being asked and interdisciplinary research methods applied today in the hearing sciences