Early Stage Training in the Neurosciences

描述(由申请者提供)：这份申请寻求继续支持我们的培训拨款中的八个职位，“神经科学的早期培训”。这笔培训补助金是密歇根大学跨系神经科学研究生项目对预考生的综合支持计划的核心。一旦学生完成候选人前的培训，他们就会在93个不同培训学院的实验室中进行全日制的博士研究。这些教师中约有一半在基础科学系任职，另一半在临床系任职。在课堂和实验室中，我们的学生都可以接触到涵盖广泛主题的研究项目，包括发育科学、系统科学和分子神经科学。此外，我们的学生还可以接触到基于疾病的和转化性的神经科学研究。该计划的头两年旨在确保所有学生毕业时都是受过广泛培训的神经科学家。在第一年，学生们要参加一门密集的实验室课程，这是一门为期一年的跨学科神经科学、人体神经解剖学原理课程，还有一门关于研究责任和伦理学的课程，他们在实验室里轮流学习两次。在第二年，学生们选修课程，参加强化神经科学研讨会课程，完成他们的实验室轮换，并开始博士论文的初步工作。密歇根大学为其招收和培训代表不足的少数族裔学生的历史感到自豪。我们描述了我们的成就以及招募和留住人数不足的少数族裔的详细计划。同样，我们提出了详细的计划，用于评估我们的计划，并指导负责任的研究行为。在这笔培训助学金提供的头四年支持期间，被我们项目录取的55名学生中有一半得到了这笔培训助学金的支持。这笔培训补助金是我们招聘和教育成功的关键。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks continuation of support for eight positions in our training grant, 'Early Stage Training in the Neurosciences.' This training grant serves as the centerpiece in an integrated plan of support for precandidate students in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program at The University of Michigan. Once students complete pre-candidate training, they perform full-time doctoral research in the laboratory of one of 93 different Training Faculty. Approximately half these faculty hold appointments in basic science departments, and the other half hold appointments in clinical departments. In both the classroom and laboratory, our students are exposed to research programs that cover a broad range of topics, including developmental, systems and molecular neuroscience. In addition, our students are exposed to disease-based and translational neuroscience research. The first two years of this program are designed to ensure that all students graduate as broadly trained neuroscientists. In the first year, students take an intensive lab course, a year-long, interdisciplinary course in the Principles of Neuroscience, human neuroanatomy, a course in research responsibilities and ethics and they perform two laboratory rotations. During the second year, students take elective courses, participate in an intensive neuroscience seminar course, complete their lab rotations and begin the initial work on the doctoral thesis. The University of Michigan is proud of its history of recruiting and training underrepresented minority students. We describe our accomplishments and a detailed plan for recruiting and retaining underrepresented minorities. Similarly, we present detailed plans for the evaluation of our program and for the instruction in the responsible conduct of research. During the first four years of support provided by this training grant, one-half of the 55 students admitted to our program received support from this training grant. This training grant is key to our recruiting and educational success