Training in Vision Science

 描述(由申请人提供)：罗切斯特大学视觉科学中心(CVS)的29名教职员工请求续签一项博士后和博士后培训计划，该计划强调两个广泛定义的视觉研究领域：(1)使用先进的光学技术研究生理光学，研究视网膜处理的基本问题和眼睛疾病的翻译研究；(2)使用心理物理、生理和计算方法研究中央视觉处理。培训是跨学科的，特别是利用该中心独特的技术和智力资源。它涵盖了广泛的视觉基本和临床问题，但强调将视觉表现与潜在的生物机制联系起来的方法。我们要求每年为六名博士前实习生提供支持，他们一般将通过脑与认知科学、神经科学、光学研究所或生物医学工程进入该项目。学生们参加核心课程和视觉科学方面的高级研讨会，再加上他们进入该项目所在系的课程。他们定期参加研讨会、研究会议和一年两次的CVS研讨会和秋季远景会议。在课程工作的同时，学生在CVS导师实验室完成研究项目。我们要求每年支持一名博士后研究员。博士后培训非常重视研究。培训补助金将特别用于吸引其他领域的有才华的科学家从事视觉研究。我们还要求为十名暑期本科生研究员提供津贴，让他们参加我们开发的一个正在进行的项目，该项目旨在向学生介绍视觉科学研究，并招收学生参加视觉科学研究生培训。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Twenty nine faculty of the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester request renewal of support for a pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program that emphasizes two broadly defined areas of vision research: (1) research in physiological optics using advanced optical techniques to study both basic questions about retinal processing and for translational research on eye disease and (2) research into central visual processing using psychophysical, physiological, and computational approaches. Training is interdisciplinary, drawing particularly on the unique technical and intellectual resources of the Center. It covers a broad range of basic and clinical problems in vision, but emphasizes approaches that link visual performance to underlying biological mechanisms. We request each year support for six pre-doctoral trainees, who will generally enter the program through Brain and Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, the Institute of Optics or Biomedical Engineering. Students take core courses plus advanced seminars in visual science, augmented by courses from the department through which they entered the program. They attend regular colloquia, research meetings and the biannual CVS Symposium and Fall Vision Meeting. Concurrently with course work, students complete research projects in CVS preceptor labs We request each year support for one postdoctoral fellow. Postdoctoral training has a heavy emphasis on research. The training grant will be used especially to draw talented scientists from other areas into vision research. We are also requesting stipends for ten summer undergraduate research fellows to participate in an ongoing program that we have developed to introduce students to research in vision science and recruit students into graduate training in visual science.