Abstract

The Systems Physiology Training Grant (STG) will support a program to prepare the most qualified doctoral students for professional research careers in integrative neuroscience through a combination of original, hands-on research, and formal courses. The trainees and their mentors have appointments in the Department of Biology, Department of Human Physiology (formerly Exercise and Movement Science), and Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Their research programs span diverse model systems from humans to nematodes and employ a variety of techniques including electrophysiology, neural imaging, molecular biology, psychophysics, and computational modeling. Nevertheless, the trainees, regardless of their departmental affiliations, experience a common set of requirements and activities designed to establish a cohort of students that interact across departmental and disciplinary lines. Our intention is that these students will continue to interact throughout their graduate career, mutually enriching their research efforts with novel ideas and perspectives. The continued funding requested is for 8 predoctoral trainees within a neuroscience graduate program of approximately 50 students, of whom 40 are eligible for training grant support. ? ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)
Project #
5T32GM007257-30
Application #
7097431
Study Section
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Initial Review Group (BRT)
Program Officer
Cole, Alison E
Project Start
1975-07-01
Project End
2010-06-30
Budget Start
2006-07-01
Budget End
2007-06-30
Support Year
30
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$163,591
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Oregon
Department
Other Basic Sciences
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
948117312
City
Eugene
State
OR
Country
United States
Zip Code
97403

  Publications

Hawkes, Teresa D; Manselle, Wayne; Woollacott, Marjorie H (2014) Tai Chi and meditation-plus-exercise benefit neural substrates of executive function: a cross-sectional, controlled study. J Complement Integr Med 11:279-88
Lester, Benjamin D; Dassonville, Paul (2014) The role of the right superior parietal lobule in processing visual context for the establishment of the egocentric reference frame. J Cogn Neurosci 26:2201-9
Reed, Scott A; Dassonville, Paul (2014) Adaptation to leftward-shifting prisms enhances local processing in healthy individuals. Neuropsychologia 56:418-27
Finnigan, Gregory C; Hanson-Smith, Victor; Stevens, Tom H et al. (2012) Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine. Nature 481:360-4
Finnigan, Gregory C; Ryan, Margret; Stevens, Tom H (2011) A genome-wide enhancer screen implicates sphingolipid composition in vacuolar ATPase function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 187:771-83
Walter, Elizabeth; Dassonville, Paul (2011) Activation in a frontoparietal cortical network underlies individual differences in the performance of an embedded figures task. PLoS One 6:e20742
Rowland, David C; Yanovich, Yelizaveta; Kentros, Clifford G (2011) A stable hippocampal representation of a space requires its direct experience. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:14654-8
Lester, Benjamin D; Dassonville, Paul (2011) Attentional control settings modulate susceptibility to the induced Roelofs effect. Atten Percept Psychophys 73:1398-406
Finnigan, Gregory C; Hanson-Smith, Victor; Houser, Benjamin D et al. (2011) The reconstructed ancestral subunit a functions as both V-ATPase isoforms Vph1p and Stv1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 22:3176-91
Talbot, Jared Coffin; Johnson, Stephen L; Kimmel, Charles B (2010) hand2 and Dlx genes specify dorsal, intermediate and ventral domains within zebrafish pharyngeal arches. Development 137:2507-17

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