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We train pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows in key areas of respiratory neurobiology.

Pre-doctoral trainees enter one of the graduate degree programs available to our training faculty at the University of Wisconsin. The specific degree granting program will be chosen based on the affiliations of the primary supervisor, and the qualifications and interests of the trainee.

The detailed requirements of these respective programs are at their specific web sites.

Regardless of their degree program affiliation, all trainees funded by this grant participate in the training related activities defining the essential character of this program in respiratory neurobiology.

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All trainees receive training at multiple levels of biological organization. Pre-doctoral trainees in the Neuroscience Training Program, Physiology Graduate Program, Veterinary Science Training Program and the Cell/ Molecular Biology Training Program are all required to undertake course work in molecular/cellular biology, as well as organ system and whole animal physiology.
Pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees are also exposed to respiratory neurobiology at different levels of biological organization through:
  • Participation in journal clubs and book clubs featuring fundamental areas of neurobiology as applied to the respiratory system, including molecular neurobiology, cellular neurobiology, neurotransmitter biology and nonlinear dynamical systems analysis, a powerful integrative tool for the study of complex systems,

  • Participation in special courses offered at other venues including the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Promega Inc., Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute or the Short Course in Clinical Research,
    offered at the University of Wisconsin (a number of trainees have attended such specialty courses in the past),

  • Participation in collaborative projects with investigators specializing in studies at the cellular/molecular or whole animal levels,

  • Participation in seminar series organized explicitly to include topics ranging broadly in the level of organization under investigation (the "Gas Club," the Neuroscience Seminar Series, etc.). Furthermore, all trainees appointed to this training grant will be co-mentored by trainers specifically chosen to emphasize approaches to respiratory neurobiology or airway control at diverse levels of biological organization.

  • Participation in the Wisconsin Regulation of Respiration Conference