Undergraduate and graduate training in neural computation and engineering

总结 该提案继续并发展了本科生和研究生（NRSA和非NRSA）培训 神经计算与工程专业。华盛顿大学历史悠久 以及在这一领域的大量和不断增长的积极教学和研究，教师导师 分布在许多部门和学校，包括生理学和生物物理学，生物 结构、计算机科学与工程、应用数学、生物学、心理学和生物工程。 该计划发展了非常成功的前五年计划，该计划看到了发展 一个积极和高度可见的培训计划，包括新的本科和研究生课程， 网站，社群活动，以利用新的机会和势头在西雅图。 对本科生和研究生教育和研究的支持将加强 理论家和实验家;扩展和整合新兴方法的课程， 神经科学，特别是神经工程和大数据方面的新产品;增强互动 本科生和研究生之间;提供本科生研究的机会， 吸引整个校园的社区，以加强我们已经优秀的跨学科 交流与合作。本科培训计划是一个为期2年的序列， 计算神经科学，每年有6名来自神经生物学或 计算/工程专业（物理，计算机科学与工程，生物工程， 应用与计算数学（Applied and Computational Mathematics）受训人员参加核心课程，包括一项研究 研讨会，选择实验室神经生物学序列和共同的定量课程。选择 在个性化的课程和职业发展的额外选修课是由指导指导 以马克思所有学生将完成至少1个，最好是4个季度的指导实验室 research.研究生培训计划将支持多达6名学生从多个研究生 程序.学生将在第一年结束时申请培训补助金支持并进行核心培训 课程包括神经生物学，定量和期刊俱乐部课程。单独定制 课程包括从计算神经科学，数学， 计算机科学和物理学将与指导委员会协商制定。学员将 可以参加华盛顿大学/艾伦研究所在圣胡安岛举办的动态大脑暑期研讨会。所有 学员将定期参加研讨会，并在每年的务虚会上介绍他们的研究成果。程序 将由教授共同指导。艾德丽安费尔霍尔，生理学和生物物理学和埃里克谢布朗， 应用数学，由领导团队协助教授比尔穆迪，主任，本科 神经生物学项目和大卫佩克尔教授，主任，神经科学研究生项目。

Summary This proposal continues and evolves an undergraduate and graduate (NRSA and non-NRSA) Training Program in Neural Computation and Engineering. The University of Washington has a rich history and a large and growing breadth of active teaching and research in this area, with faculty mentors distributed through many departments and schools, including Physiology and Biophysics, Biological Structure, Computer Science and Engineering, Applied Math, Biology, Psychology and Bioengineering. This program evolves the extremely successful previous five-year program which saw the development of an active and highly visible training program, including new undergraduate and graduate program, website, community activities, to take advantage of new opportunities and momentum in Seattle. Support for undergraduate and graduate education and research will enhance interaction between theorists and experimentalists; expand and integrate coursework in emerging approaches in neuroscience, particularly novel offerings in neuroengineering and big data; enhance interactions between undergraduate and graduate students; provide opportunities for undergraduate research and draw together the community across campus to strengthen our already excellent interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. The undergraduate training program is a 2-year sequence in computational neuroscience, with support for 6 trainees yearly from neurobiology or from a computational/engineering major (Physics, Computer Science and Engineering, Bioengineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics). Trainees take a core curriculum including a research seminar, a choice of laboratory neurobiology sequence and common quantitative courses. Choice of additional electives in an individualized curriculum and career development is guided by a mentoring committee. All students will complete at least 1 and preferably 4 quarters of mentored laboratory research. The graduate training program will support up to 6 students from multiple graduate programs. Students will apply for training grant support at the end of the first year and carry out a core curriculum consisting of neurobiology, quantitative and journal club courses. Individually tailored curricula including electives selected from offerings in computational neuroscience, mathematics, computer science and physics will be devised in consultation with a mentoring committee. Trainees will have access to the UW/Allen Institute Summer Workshop for the Dynamic Brain on San Juan Island. All trainees will attend a regular seminar and and present their research at an annual retreat. The program will be co-directed by Profs. Adrienne Fairhall, Physiology and Biophysics and Eric Shea-Brown, Applied Mathematics, assisted by Leadership Team Prof. Bill Moody, Director, Undergraduate Neurobiology Program and Prof. David Perkel, Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program.