# Visual Science Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $152,883

## Abstract

Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Zhou, Z. Jimmy
Abstract
 This application proposes to continue an integrative training program in visual science research at Yale
University School of Medicine, with a special emphasis on visual neuroscience. The goal of this program is to
foster interdisciplinary approaches to visual neuroscience that will interface with molecular genetics and clinical
medicine in the areas of development, organization, function, degeneration, and regeneration in the eye and
the central visual system. Fourteen faculty preceptors from six basic and clinical departments participate in
this multidisciplinary program. These faculty members lead vibrant vision research programs in a vision
research community at Yale that has undergone an exciting phase of revitalization and expansion, and that
has attracted an increasing number of outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The proposed
training program offers both depth and breadth. The depth derives from its substantive focus on the
neuroscience of the eye and the visual system. The breadth of the program derives from the diversity of
approaches, spanning molecular, developmental, systems, cognitive and theoretical neuroscience, as well as
from the range of experimental models used in these studies, spanning drosophila, zebrafish, rodents, and
primates. Faculty interests range from retinal development and degeneration, retinal physiology and circuits to
visual cortical function and visual behavior. Methodologies include cloning; cell culture; immunocytochemistry;
in situ hybridization; gene transfection and transgenic technology, electron and two photon microscopy;
optogenetics, patch-clamp and multielectrode recording; electroretinograph, optical imaging; biochemistry and
molecular analyses; psycho-pharmacology; rodent, monkey and human behavior; in vivo extracellular
recording in behaving animals; and fMRI and PET imaging in human subjects.
 Two predoctoral and two postdoctoral positions are requested. Trainees will be selected from a variety of
backgrounds in biological sciences on the basis of their potential for excellence and leadership in research by
an Executive Committee. Mentors are Ph.D.s and M.D.s. with NEI and other NIH institute grants or NEI related
research foci. Training includes coursework, intensive research apprentice-ship, structured seminar programs,
laboratory and departmental presentations of research progress, and instructions on responsible research
conduct.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10250449
- **Project number:** 5T32EY022312-10
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Z JIMMY ZHOU
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $152,883
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10250449

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10250449, Visual Science Training Grant (5T32EY022312-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10250449. Licensed CC0.

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