Rresearch Training Program in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：一个由10名高级和中级研究人员组成的导师小组，每个人都有研究培训经验，每个人都有活跃的和有竞争力的研究项目，由国家眼科研究所资助，在威斯康星医学院（MCW）提出一个新的视觉科学研究培训计划。每年招收博士预科生3人，博士后培养2人。其目的是为受训者在眼科和视觉研究方面的研究事业做好准备。这要求学生对视觉系统的主要特征有一个广泛的、多学科的认识，对影响视觉的疾病有一个当代的理解，以及对视觉系统实验工作的现代研究技能和技术。它还要求受训人员掌握在多学科研究环境中发挥作用所必需的分析和沟通技巧。导师小组提供视觉系统的多个方面的经验，从基本的光感受器生物学和色彩视觉到大脑中心视觉的组织。该计划的导师还提供广泛的最新技术知识，包括分子遗传学，包括转基因动物的使用，功能性磁共振成像。博士预科生将完成分子遗传学、生物化学、细胞生物学和神经生物学的核心课程，以及“科学中的伦理与诚信”和“视觉的生物与化学”的必修课程，作为在项目教师指导下进行论文研究的前导。博士后研修生将在项目教师的指导下进行研究。他们还将完成一门“科学中的道德与诚信”课程，并将有望从美国国立卫生研究院和其他视觉相关机构单独申请博士后资助。每两周一次的视觉科学研究论坛/期刊俱乐部，每月一次的视觉科学系列研讨会，以及每年一次的视觉科学研讨会。他们还将出席全国会议并提交文件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A mentor group composed of 10 senior and mid-level investigators, each with experience in research training and each with active and competitive research programs funded through the National Eye Institute, propose a new research Training Program in Vision Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). The request is for 3 pre- and 2 post-doctoral trainees annually. The objective is to prepare trainees for research careers in ocular and vision research. This requires that students have a broad, multidisciplinary appreciation of the major features of the visual system, a contemporary understanding of the diseases that impact vision, and modem research skills and technologies for experimental work in the visual system. It also requires that trainees acquire the analytical and communication skills necessary to function in a multidisciplinary research environment. The mentor group provides experience in multiple facets of the visual system, ranging from fundamental photoreceptor biology and color vision to organization of the central vision within the brain. The mentors in the program also offer a wide range of state of the art technological know-how that includes molecular genetics, including use of transgenic animals, to functional magnetic resonance imaging. Predoctoral trainees will complete a core curriculum of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology as well as required courses in "Ethics and Integrity in Science" and "The Biology and Chemistry of Vision" as a prelude to conducting dissertation research under the mentorship of a member of the program faculty. Post-doctoral trainees will primarily conduct research under the mentorship of program faculty. They will also complete a course in "Ethics and Integrity in Science", and will be expected to apply for post-doctoral funding individually from the NIH and other vision related agencies. Both pre- and post-doctoral trainees will participate in a bi-weekly Research Forum/Journal Club in Vision Science, a monthly Seminar Series in Vision Science, and an annual Vision Science Colloquium. They will also attend and present papers at National meetings.