Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

描述(由申请人提供)：马里兰大学(UMD)的听力比较和进化生物学课程，位于学院园区，培养高资质的听觉神经科学家，他们能够担任学术和研究职位，在那里他们将在听力科学方面进行独立研究。此外，受训者将接触到UMD研究小组在与听力中的比较和进化问题有关的问题上的相当大的实力和重点。UMD的研究小组使用了从昆虫到人类的各种动物模型，以及从分子遗传学到脑成像的现代研究方法，以了解听觉系统的结构和功能。因此，该培训计划的目标是培训博士后和博士后研究员，使他们成为能够欣赏和使用各种模型的听觉神经科学家，这些模型将使他们能够提出关于听力科学的最基本的问题。 该培训项目包括来自五个部门的10名马里兰大学终身教职和终身教职调查人员。该计划与美国国立卫生研究院NIDCD和其他几个机构的UMD兼职教师密切合作。UMD调查人员分布在五个部门，尽管这些人中的大多数人的实验室都在一栋楼里。该计划中的实验室之间有相当大的互动，学员和教职员工被鼓励在实验室之间移动，以使用不同的设施，更重要的是，在实验室之间学习和合作。 博士前实习生通常是完成大部分课程工作并被录取为博士生候选人的个人。博士后实习生的选择是基于他们的研究兴趣和他们将从培训计划中获得多少，以及他们是否有兴趣在UMD的不同实验室工作，或者作为UMD和NIDCD实验室之间的桥梁。每年将有两名博士后实习生获得博士学位，第三名将是医学博士，即将进入马里兰大学医学院的耳鼻喉科住院医生项目。 所有受训人员都必须参加培训计划研讨会、期刊俱乐部、听力课程和科学研究伦理课程。博士前实习生应该在基础细胞、分子、计算和系统神经科学方面有广泛的基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing program at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, trains highly qualified auditory neuroscientists who are able to take up academic and research positions where they will conduct independent research in the hearing sciences. Moreover, trainees are exposed to the considerable strength and emphasis in the UMD research group on questions that relate to comparative and evolutionary issues in hearing. The research group at UMD uses a wide range of animal models, from insects to humans, and modern research methodologies from molecular genetics to brain imaging, to understand the structure and function of the auditory system. Thus, the goal of the training program is to train predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows so that they are auditory neuroscientists who are able to appreciate, and use, a wide range of models that will enable them to ask the most fundamental questions about the hearing sciences. The training program includes 10 University of Maryland tenured and tenure-track investigators from five departments. The program collaborates closely with adjunct UMD faculty from the NIDCD of NIH and several other institutions. The UMD investigators are in five departments, although most of these individuals have their laboratories in one building. There is considerable interaction between laboratories in the program, and trainees, as well as faculty, are encouraged to move between laboratories to use different facilities and, more importantly, to learn and collaborate across labs. Predoctoral trainees are generally individuals who have completed most of their course work and have been admitted to doctoral candidacy. Postdoctoral trainees are selected on the basis of their research interests and how much they would gain from being part of the training program, and whether they would be interested in potentially working across laboratories at UMD or to serve as a bridge between UMD and NIDCD laboratories. Two postdoctoral trainees each year will have obtained a Ph.D. degree, while a third will be an MD who is entering into the Otolaryngology residency program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. All trainees are required to participate in the training program seminars, journal clubs, course on hearing, and course on Ethics in Scientific Research. Predoctoral trainees are expected to have a broad grounding in fundamental cell, molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience.