Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

描述（由申请人提供）：在应对科学家谁可以带来创新的技能和观点，在听力科学的问题出现的需求，我们将继续建立在我们完善的听力比较和进化生物学在马里兰州，学院公园大学的培训计划。我们团队的14名核心教师带来了非常广泛的专业知识，从细胞和分子生物学到系统神经科学，这些能力使我们能够提供一个培训计划，不仅强调比较和进化的角度来理解听觉系统，而且还在不同的分析水平上做到这一点。我们提出了新的方法来培养下一代科学家，他们可以将知识和方法转化为生物医学科学，实现突破，而这些突破不能仅仅通过单一学科的工作和使用单一模型系统来实现。培训计划的下一个周期将促进对转化研究的关注，我们将继续扩大我们的学员对基础研究的生物医学应用的理解，以解决与人类寿命有关的听力问题，包括听力障碍的预防，诊断和遗传学以及相关的治疗干预核心教师来自5个部门，生物学，心理学，语言学，听力和语言科学，以及电子和计算机工程。来自其他UMD项目以及NIDCD和其他区域机构的其他附属和附属教师与核心教师密切合作，并为研究员提供进一步的研究和培训机会。培训计划包括支持5名博士前和3名博士后学员。博士预科生一般是在中期到后期的培训，他们主要是做研究。博士前支持一般为1至3年。除了研究培训外，学生还参加研究伦理课程，专业发展和翻译听觉科学的研讨会/课程，以及参加所有计划活动。博士后培训人员支持1-2年。他们被要求审计相同的必修课程/研讨会作为博士前研究员，如果他们以前没有这样的课程。整个计划的重点是让学员接触到该计划参与实验室所做工作的广度，并通过这种接触，更好地了解当今听力科学中所提出的问题和研究方法。 相关性：对听觉系统功能的更完整的了解有望解决人类健康中一些最令人困惑和最具破坏性的问题，并巩固将改变我们生活方式的系统和设备的设计。因此，CEBH培训计划将提供听力科学方面的深入和跨学科培训，使个人能够在基础科学和医学的界面上推进发现和创新。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to the emerging need for scientists who can bring innovative skills and perspectives to problems in the hearing sciences, we will continue to build upon our well established Training Program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. The 14 Core Faculty in our group bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise, from cellular and molecular biology to systems neuroscience, and these capabilities allow us to offer a training program that not only emphasizes a comparative and evolutionary perspective to understanding the auditory system, but also does this across different levels of analysis. We propose new approaches to train the next generation of scientists who can translate knowledge and methodologies across biomedical sciences, enabling breakthroughs that cannot be achieved through work solely within a single discipline and using a single model system. The next cycle of the training program will promote a focus on translational research, in which we will continue to expand our trainees' appreciation of the biomedical applications of basic research to solving problems concerned with hearing across the human life span, including prevention, diagnosis, and genetics of hearing impairment and relevant therapeutic interventions Core Faculty are from 5 departments, biology, psychology, linguistics, hearing and speech sciences, and electrical and computer engineering. Additional adjunct and affiliate faculty from other UMD programs, as well as NIDCD and other regional institutions, work closely with the Core Faculty and provide further research and training opportunities for fellows. The Training Program includes support for 5 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees are generally in middle to later training where they are primarily doing research. Predoctoral support is generally for 1 to 3 years. In addition to research training, students take a course in research ethics, and seminars/courses in professional development and translational auditory science, as well as participate in all program activities. Postdoctoral trainees are supported for 1-2 years. They are required to audit the same required courses/seminars as the predoctoral fellows if they have not previously had such courses. Emphasis throughout the program is to expose trainees to the breadth of work done in the program's participating labs, and through this exposure, gain a better appreciation for the range of questions being asked and research methods applied today in the hearing sciences. RELEVANCE: More complete knowledge of auditory system function promises both to solve some of the most perplexing and devastating problems of human health, and cement the design of systems and devices that will transform how we live. Accordingly, the CEBH Training Program will provide in-depth and interdisciplinary training in the hearing sciences that prepares individuals to advance discovery and innovation at the interface of basic science and medicine.