Advanced Graduate Neuroscience Training Grant - Travel Supplement

项目摘要/摘要 目前的提案描述了一个高级博士前培训计划，重点是分子、细胞和 翻译神经科学。培训方案的目标是：(A)实现高质量的教育 在基本原则和技术方面，将使受训人员为密集的合作和 现代神经科学研究的跨学科性质；(B)产生深入和最先进的 重点领域的实验室研究机会；以及(C)经常进行必要的专业技能培训 在研究生教育中被忽视，包括批判性阅读、助学金写作、口头陈述、领导力、 管理和网络。我们将通过高级课程的组合来实现这些目标， 研讨会、小组讨论、每周研讨会、实习生演示和结构化(以及更多 非正式)与项目教职员工的会议。经过深思熟虑的指导计划将有助于学员在 为参与者未来的科学职业生涯做好计划和准备。神经科学博士前实习生 纽约大学成为他们研究实验室和纽约大学庞大的神经科学界不可或缺的一部分， 尤其是因为拟议的培训计划汇集了来自纽约大学专业的30名教员培训人员 校园。尽管历史上有两个相关的神经科学研究生课程在纽约大学共存，但来自纽约大学的 在过去的5-10年，这两个项目都采取了几个关键步骤来整合他们的研究生培训。使用 在大学的大力支持下，我们达到了项目整合的新阶段。拟议中的培训 该计划将有助于进一步努力统一纽约大学广泛的神经科学界， 特别是在分子、细胞和翻译神经科学领域，他们的队伍最近 由于纽约大学神经科学中心和 纽约大学新神经科学研究所。这个蓬勃发展的社区，特别是经过挑选的培训教师， 支持数量可观的研究生群体。我们为4名三年级的博士前学生寻求资助 或这一队列中的更高级别；每个人的任期为1至2年，恰好在我们预期他们将 向独立筹资过渡。这一规模将提供足够多的受训人员，从而牢固地确立这一点 在纽约大学更大的神经科学研究生课程的背景下的培训计划。穿过 我们新整合的研究生课程，我们为学员提供广阔而丰富的知识环境和 自信地追求自己的科学兴趣的资源和经验，我们希望这将导致 未来在基础神经科学和神经系统疾病的潜在机制方面的突破。

Project Summary/Abstract The current proposal describes an advanced predoctoral training program focused on molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience. The training program’s goals are focused on (a) achieving a high-quality education in the fundamental principles and techniques that will prepare trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research; (b) generating in-depth and state-of-the-art laboratory research opportunities in the focus area, and (c) training in the necessary professional skills often overlooked during graduate education, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking. We will achieve these goals through a combination of advanced coursework, workshops, small group discussions, weekly seminars, trainee presentations, and structured (as well as more informal) meetings with program faculty. A well-thought out mentoring program will aid trainees’ progress in the program and prepare the participants for their future careers in science. Neuroscience predoctoral trainees at NYU become an integral part of their research labs as well as the expansive neuroscience community at NYU, especially because the proposed training program brings together 30 faculty trainers from across NYU’s major campuses. Although historically two related neuroscience graduate programs co-existed at NYU, faculty from both programs have taken several key steps to integrate their graduate training over the past 5-10 years. With substantial support from the University, we reached a new phase of program integration. The proposed training program will be instrumental in furthering the efforts to unify the extensive NYU neuroscience community, particularly those in the areas of molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience, whose ranks have recently increased substantially thanks to aggressive faculty recruitment by the NYU Center for Neural Science and the new NYU Neuroscience Institute. This thriving community, and especially the selected training faculty, supports a substantial graduate student population. We seek funding for 4 predoctoral students in their 3rd year or higher within this cohort; each will be appointed for 1 to 2 years, just prior to when we anticipate they will transition to independent funding. This size will provide a critical mass of trainees so as to firmly establish this training program within the context of the larger combined neuroscience graduate programs at NYU. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment and the resources and experience to confidently pursue their own scientific interests, which we hope will lead to future breakthroughs in basic neuroscience and the underlying mechanisms of neurological diseases.