Training Program in Vision Science

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学戴维斯分校的视觉科学跨学科培训需要持续的支持。培训由加州大学戴维斯分校9个系的36名视觉科学家（22名导师和14名副导师）提供。培训计划的目标是培养能够建立独立研究项目的视觉科学家，这些研究项目将解决视觉科学中的重大问题。它将在加州大学戴维斯分校现有研究生项目的支持下运作，因为它们为实现我们的培训目标提供了广泛的灵活性。加州大学戴维斯分校对视觉科学培训有着坚定的制度承诺，这一点得到了大力支持，并新成立了视觉科学中心。该培训计划要求由咨询委员会选出4名博士预科生和2名博士后实习生。博士预科生通常会获得两年的培训资助，而博士后学员通常会获得一年的培训资助。内部支持机制和校外资助将用于其他年份的培训（博士培训~5年，博士后培训~3年）。受训者将参与加州大学戴维斯分校拥有视觉科学专业小组的五个领域中的一个或多个领域：(i)分子生物学和遗传学，（ii）解剖学和生理学，（iii）视网膜成像，（iv）中枢机制神经生理学和行为，以及(v)功能成像，计算建模和心理物理学。22个导师中的每一个都有一个积极的视觉科学研究项目，对培训的坚定承诺和足够的校外资金来支持博士预科和/或博士后学员。培训计划借鉴了招收研究生项目的严格研究培训，但也包括涵盖更广泛的视觉科学和临床视觉科学的调查课程。研究生受训人员将只在其研究生院的第一年之后得到支持，因此将是一个高度选择性的群体，他们已经完成了大部分基础科学课程。博士前和博士后受训者将参加视觉科学、期刊俱乐部和关于研究伦理行为的课程的一系列积极的讨论会。所有学员都将从事视觉科学研究，并将在国家会议上发表并提交给同行评议的期刊。博士后培训将着重强调获得独立的研究经费。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for interdisciplinary training in the vision sciences at the University of California, Davis. Training is provided by 36 vision scientists (22 preceptors and 14 associate preceptors) across 9 departments at the University of California, Davis. The goal of the training program is to produce vision scientists who will be capable of establishing independent research programs that will address significant problems in vision science. It will operate under the auspices of existing graduate programs at UC Davis as they offer the broad flexibility needed to achieve our training objectives. UC Davis has a strong institutional commitment to vision science training as evidenced by substantial support and a newly formed Center for Visual Science. The training program requests support for 4 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral trainees to be selected by an Advisory Committee. Predoctoral trainees will typically receive two years of support from the training grant, while postdoctoral trainees will typically be supported for one year. Internal support mechanisms and extramural grants will be used for the other years of training (~5 years for Ph.D. training and ~3 years for postdoctoral training). The trainees will participate in one or more of the five areas in which UC Davis has groups with vision science expertise: (i) molecular biology and genetics, (ii) anatomy and physiology, (iii) retinal imaging, (iv) central mechanism neurophysiology and behavior, and (v) functional imaging, computational modeling and psychophysics. Each of the 22 preceptors has an active program of vision science research, a strong commitment to training and sufficient extramural funding to support predoctoral and/or postdoctoral trainees. The training program draws on the rigorous research training of the admitting graduate programs, but also includes survey courses that cover the broader vision sciences and clinical vision science. Graduate trainees will be supported only after their first year of graduate school and will thus be a highly selective group that has completed much of their basic science curriculum. Predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will participate in an active colloquium series in the vision sciences, journal clubs and a course on the ethical conduct of research. All trainees will be engaged in vision science research that will be presented at national meetings and submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Postdoctoral training will have a strong emphasis on achieving independent research funding.