Graduate Training in Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请请求继续支持系统和综合生物学的博士前培训，重点是神经科学方面的研究生培训。拟议的培训计划涵盖了神经科学，从研究视觉信息的皮质处理等复杂系统，到突触传递的分子生物学和基因表达的神经递质调控。该计划的目标是为学生在神经科学领域的研究生涯做好准备，重点是用多维的方法来解决问题。考虑到这一目标，我们组建了一支能够指导行为、发育、生物化学、细胞电生理学、生物物理学、分子生物学、光子学、心理物理学、皮质功能、计算神经科学和大脑疾病分子遗传学的研究项目的教职员工。这些教职员工因他们对神经科学的共同兴趣和致力于为研究生提供教学和实验室培训而聚集在一起，以实现这一目标。我们已经实施了一门新的综合神经科学核心课程，为学生提供广泛的神经科学基础，我们希望这将推动他们的工作，即使他们在神经科学方面的具体研究可能会在他们的职业生涯中发生变化。我们已经准备了一系列考试来测试我们在这方面的进展，并建立了一些机制来促进不同系的学生和教职员工之间的协作互动。 我们相信，神经科学的博士前培训满足了现代神经生物学研究的一个重要需求，即培养一批受过广泛培训的学生，他们对当代分子、细胞和系统神经科学的广泛领域有全面的理解。博士生还需要清楚地认识到神经科学研究中许多及时的与疾病相关的机会。贝勒医学院神经科学研究生培训计划通过招募和教育能够执行这一使命的年轻科学家，为这一努力做出了重要贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continuing support for Predoctoral Training in Systems and Integrative Biology with specific emphasis on Graduate Training in Neuroscience. The training program proposed encompasses Neuroscience from the study of such complex systems as the cortical processing of visual information to the molecular biology of synaptic transmission and neurotransmitter regulation of gene expression. The goal of the program is to prepare students for research careers in Neuroscience with an emphasis on a multi-dimensional approach to the problem. With this goal in mind we have assembled a faculty able to direct research projects in behavior, development, biochemistry, cellular electrophysiology, biophysics, molecular biology, photonics, psychophysics, cortical function, computational neuroscience and the molecular genetics of diseases of the brain. These faculty members are brought together in this goal by their common interests in Neuroscience and in their commitment to providing both didactic teaching and laboratory training to graduate students. We have implemented a new integrated core curriculum in Integrative Neuroscience that provides students with a broad foundation in Neuroscience that we hope will carry them forward in their work even as their specific research in Neuroscience may change over the course of their careers. We have prepared a series of exams that will test our progress in this endeavor, and have a number of mechanisms in place to promote collaborative interactions between the students and the faculty in different departments. We believe that Predoctoral Training in Neuroscience meets an important need in modern neurobiology research, the training of a cadre of broadly trained students with an integrated understanding across the tremendously broad spectrum of contemporary molecular, cellular and systems neuroscience. Ph.D. students also need to gain a clear appreciation of the many timely disease-related opportunities in Neuroscience research. This program in Graduate Training in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine makes an important contribution to this endeavor through the recruitment and education of young scientists able to execute this mission.