Research Training in Visual Neuroscience

项目摘要： 哈佛大学神经科学计划中的18名神经科学家申请继续资助4名 视觉神经科学培训计划中的博士前职位。培训的重点是学习视觉 从视网膜到大脑的通路，以及视觉的细胞、分子和发育神经生物学 系统。这些教职员工分布在整个大学。9名教职员工在BASIC 医学院的科学系，六个在医院的实验室，三个在院系 文理学院。 在过去的二十年里，哈佛大学大大扩大了教职员工的数量 研究视觉科学的分子、发育和神经系统方法。学生可以选择 来自一大群视觉研究人员的实验室，他们中的大多数都隶属于哈佛大学的 NEI视觉研究核心助学金。视觉神经科学培训计划的目标是建立一个大型、 以哈佛大学范围内的愿景社区为基础的一群连贯的学生，他们由其教职员工和 他们有很强的社区意识。 这笔助学金将资助两名二年级学生和两名三年级学生，但学生们仍然很积极 随着他们进入晚年，他们参与了这个项目，创造了一大批附属学生。我们训练 并通过课程、论文委员会、研讨会、座谈会和我们的“系统愿景”来指导这些学生 杂志俱乐部。因此，实习生在整个研究生职业生涯中都会与教职员工以及彼此之间进行互动。 每年都有许多视觉科学家访问哈佛大学，举办研讨会；各级学员都会与他们互动交流。 午餐和实验室探视。通过这些活动，我们将帮助培养新一代视觉科学家 科学职业将帮助我们理解视觉系统的方方面面：发展、信息 加工，和疾病。

Project Abstract: Eighteen neuroscientists within Harvard's Program in Neuroscience request continued funding for four predoctoral positions in the Training Program in Visual Neuroscience. Training focuses on the study of visual pathways from retina to brain, and of the cellular, molecular and developmental neurobiology of the visual system. These faculty members are distributed throughout the university. Nine faculty members are in basic science departments at the Medical School, six are in hospital-based laboratories, and three are in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Over the past two decades, Harvard University has greatly expanded the number of faculty members who study the molecular, developmental, and neural-systems approaches to visual science. Students can choose laboratories from among a large community of vision researchers, most of whom are affiliated with Harvard's NEI Core Grant in Vision research. The goal of the Visual Neuroscience Training Program is to build a large, coherent group of students based in this Harvard-wide vision community, who are trained by its faculty and who have a strong sense of community. The grant will support two students in their second year and two in their third, but students remain actively involved with the program as they advance to later years, creating a large cohort of affiliated students. We train and supervise these students with courses, thesis committees, seminars, symposia, and our “Systems-Vision” journal club. Thus trainees interact with the faculty and with each other throughout their graduate careers. Many vision scientists visit Harvard every year to give seminars; trainees at all levels interact with them over lunch and in lab visits. Through these activities, we will help train a new generation of vision scientists whose scientific careers will help us understand all aspects of the visual system: development, information processing, and disease.