Predoctoral Training in Intergrative Neuroscience

综合神经科学博士前培训

• 批准号: 8081405
• 负责人: Karen N Gale
• 金额: $ 29.88万
• 依托单位: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8081405
• 关键词: Neurosciences; Training; pre-doctoral

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences (IPN) at Georgetown University is a broad-based, transdisciplinary, non-departmental program leading to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The program, established in 1994, trains students in the scholarly pursuit of research in integrative neuroscience, from the cell to the intact behaving organism. The 32 core training faculty and 20 supporting faculty are drawn from 14 clinical and basic science departments on the Main Campus and Medical Center; they span a breadth of inquiry, ranging from neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction, to behavior and human disease. Areas of research strengths include 1) neural injury, degeneration, and plasticity; 2) synaptic modulation and signal transduction; 4) neural substrates of autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, dementias, and addiction; and 5) telencephalic neural networks subserving sensory processing, memory and language. Students gain training in a range of approaches, including molecular, genetic, neurophysiological, cognitive testing, computational and imaging techniques. Training Grant funds support prethesis training (8 slots during the first 2 years); research grants and individual fellowships support thesis research. The program enrolls 40-50 thesis and prethesis students. Aggressive recruitment of underrepresented racial and ethnic applicants continues to be a top priority. The training environment fosters interactive, pandisciplinary research of both faculty and trainees. Over 40% of the core training faculty are in close proximity in the Research Building, with state-of-the-art core facilities and custom designed laboratory and office space. Faculty are highly collaborative; students are encouraged to seek co-mentorship between faculty with interfacing interests and complementary approaches. All core training faculty have research grant support and fully equipped facilities for training pre-and postdoctoral students. The recent recruitment of several neuroscience faculty into the Departments of Pharmacology, Psychology and Neuroscience, has expanded the equipment, facilities and faculty expertise available to the training program. The training program includes broad-based didactic coursework, as well as rotations in laboratories of the training faculty. The trainees participate in a seminar series, national professional meetings, journal clubs, intensive laboratory research, and training in several essential professional skills (writing and reviewing manuscripts, grantsmanship, mentorship, teaching, conflict resolution, career choices, oral presentations) and their ethical dimensions. Opportunities for gaining practical teaching experience at the undergraduate and secondary school levels are abundant and encouraged. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed training program is to prepare future scientists for a career as highly creative, inquisitive and productive biomedical researchers. We seek to provide the trainees, who are pursuing their Ph.D. in neuroscience, with broad-based interdisciplinary training relevant to understanding a variety of diseases and disorders of the nervous system. Through didactic coursework, laboratory research, career development skills training, and instruction in the responsible conduct of research, the students supported through this training mechanism will be poised to make important discoveries aimed at preventing and curing a spectrum of neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, dementias, communicative disorders, and addiction.

描述（由申请人提供）：乔治敦大学神经科学的跨学科计划（IPN）是一项基于广泛的跨学科的非部门计划，导致博士学位。在神经科学中。该计划成立于1994年，培训学生从细胞到完整的有机体进行综合神经科学研究的学术追求。 32位核心培训教师和20位辅助教师来自主校园和医疗中心的14个临床和基础科学部门；它们跨越了询问的广度，从神经递质受体和信号转导到行为和人类疾病。研究优势领域包括1）神经损伤，变性和可塑性； 2）突触调制和信号转导； 4）自闭症，癫痫，精神分裂症，痴呆和成瘾的神经底物； 5）端脑神经网络可扩散感觉处理，记忆和语言。学生在各种方法中获得培训，包括分子，遗传，神经生理学，认知测试，计算和成像技术。培训赠款资金支持prethesis培训（在最初两年内8个插槽）；研究补助金和个人奖学金支持论文研究。该计划招募了40-50个论文和prethesis学生。积极招募代表性不足的种族和种族申请人仍然是重中之重。培训环境促进了教师和学员的互动，大脚学科研究。超过40％的核心培训教师在研究大楼附近，最先进的核心设施以及定制设计的实验室和办公空间。教师是高度协作的；鼓励学生在教职员工之间寻求兴趣与互补方法之间的同学。所有核心培训教师都有研究赠款支持和设施齐全的设施，用于培训博士后学生。最近招募了几个神经科学教师进入药理学，心理学和神经科学系，扩大了培训计划可用的设备，设施和教师专业知识。培训计划包括广泛的教学课程，以及培训教师实验室的轮换。学员参加了一个研讨会系列，全国专业会议，期刊俱乐部，强化实验室研究以及几种基本专业技能的培训（写作和审查手稿，赠款，指导，教学，教学，冲突解决，职业选择，口头陈述）和道德维度。在本科和中学阶段获得实践教学经验的机会是丰富的和鼓励的。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的培训计划的目标是为未来的科学家做好准备，使其成为高度创造性，好奇和生产性生物医学研究人员的职业。我们寻求为正在攻读博士学位的受训者提供。在神经科学中，具有与理解神经系统的各种疾病和疾病有关的广泛基础跨学科培训。通过教学课程，实验室研究，职业发展技能培训以及负责任的研究的指导，通过这种培训机制支持的学生将有望做出旨在预防和治疗各种神经和精神疾病的重要发现，例如自闭症，癫痫，癫痫，癫痫，精神分裂症，dementias，ementative disorders，complaceative disorders，consementations，consementical distrions和usdictation。