Training in Systems and Integrative Biology: Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份为期五年的机构NRSA申请，旨在为埃默里大学神经科学跨系研究生项目中的优秀博士前学生提供支持。该计划的目标是为研究生提供广泛的现代系统和综合神经科学方面的知识和研究技能，以便他们能够进入生物医学研究、教育和工业的各种职业。这个项目的一个基本优势是我们在跨越几个经典学科的广泛的神经生物学问题上提供广泛的跨学科培训。在这次更新中，我们正在寻求每年10名学生的支持。神经科学课程目前有79名学生(2005年秋季招收17名新学员)，一直吸引着一大批非常高质量的申请者。在过去的五年里，该计划在招收优秀的代表不足的少数族裔学生方面取得了极大的成功。该项目目前有15%的学生是少数族裔。一个代表来自20个系的104名(76名)教职员工的执行委员会和耶克斯中心负责管理该项目。该委员会由主任领导，负责监督计划运作的所有方面；一名研究生研究主任，负责监督学生进展情况；以及招生主任，负责监督计划招生和录取的所有方面。在过去的资助期间，随着两个主要神经科学中心的开设，埃默里大学可用于神经科学研究的实验室空间和核心设施大幅增长。该项目的学生在头两年将接受一系列广泛的课程，包括神经科学的三门核心课程，生物化学和细胞生物学的一门课程，以及生物统计学的一门课程。以NRSA博士前奖学金申请的形式要求的书面论文提案(包括口头辩护)教会了宝贵的拨款撰写技能。各种各样的选修课，从分子到计算神经科学，以及必要的研究轮换计划，提供了开发和完成论文研究项目所需的专门培训。通过一系列研讨会、实验室会议和期刊俱乐部，以及每年的论文委员会会议，学生们得到积极的指导，世界各地的机构访问埃默里，展示他们的研究成果，并与我们的学生互动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing renewal of a five-year Institutional NRSA application for the support of outstanding predoctoral students in the interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Emory University. The objective of the Program is to provide graduate students a breadth of knowledge and research skills in modern systems and integrative neuroscience so that they may enter a variety of careers in biomedical research, education, and industry. A fundamental strength of this program is the broad interdisciplinary training we provide in a wide spectrum of neurobiological issues spanning several classical disciplines. We are seeking support for 10 students per year in this renewal. The Neuroscience Program currently has 79 students (+ 17 new recruits for Fall 2005) enrolled and has consistently attracted a large and very high quality applicant pool. The program has been extremely successful in enrolling outstanding underrepresented minority students during the past five years. Fifteen percent of the current pool of students in the program are minorities. An Executive Committee representing the 104 (76 on this grant) faculty from 20 departments and Yerkes Center administers the program. This committee is headed by the Director, who oversees all aspects of program operation, a Director of Graduate Studies, who oversees the monitoring of student progress, and the Director of Admissions, who oversees all aspects of recruitment and admission of students to the program. The laboratory space and core facilities available for neuroscience research at Emory have grown substantially during the past funding period with the opening of two major neuroscience centers. Students in the program receive a broad curriculum of courses in their first two years, including three core courses in Neuroscience, a course in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and a course in Biostatistics. A required written thesis proposal (with oral defense) in the form of an NRSA predoctoral fellowship application teaches valuable grant-writing skills. A wide variety of elective courses ranging from Molecular to Computational Neuroscience and a required research rotation program provides the specialized training necessary for the development and completion of a thesis research project. Students are actively mentored through series of seminars, laboratory meetings and journal clubs, and yearly thesis committee meetings, institutions around the world to visit Emory, present their research, and interact with our students.