IGERT Proposal - Integrated Training in the Evolution of Development

新形式和新功能的持续起源是地球上生命的特征。虽然变化发生在种群内部，但它们改变了基因组，从而改变了个体的发育。虽然进化、发育生物学和基因组学对于理解生命是不可或缺的，但几乎所有目前的研究生培训师本身都是专门接受过正式培训的，要么是种群生物学家，要么是胚胎学家，要么是分子生物学家，要么是计算机科学家。该项目的跨学科研究主题是通过结合俄勒冈大学和印第安纳大学的专业知识，培养研究生在进化、发育、基因组学和生物信息学的界面上研究新出现的问题。该计划的智力重点是询问新结构和功能的发展如何随着时间的推移在种群中进化，以及伴随着发育创新的进化的基因组变化的机制是什么？创新的教育和培训功能整合了跨学科研究，因为学员与不同学科的联合顾问合作，参加独特的发展演变课程，并与俄勒冈大学和印第安纳大学的教职员工进行面对面和视频会议互动。学员通过在每周EvoDevo期刊俱乐部发表批判性演讲来培养专业和个人技能，在研究项目上与不同教员合作发展团队合作技能，在监督大学教学中磨练教学技能，获得与本科生少数族裔研究学生合作的指导技能，并在IGERT年度研讨会上联系知名研究人员。更广泛的影响包括招聘、指导和留住代表性不足的研究生的活动，以及对代表性不足群体的研究型本科生的辅导。该项目将增加受过培训的研究人员队伍，以在融合的学术学科的前沿进行研究，对理解复杂的性状(包括多因素疾病)、开发改良的农业作物以及了解我们的生物世界是如何形成的具有实际意义。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

The continuing origin of novel form and function characterizes life on Earth. Although changes occur within populations, they transform genomes to alter the development of individuals. While evolution, developmental biology, and genomics are integral to understanding life, virtually all current trainers of graduate students were, themselves, formally trained exclusively as either population biologists, or embryologists, or molecular biologists, or computer scientists. This program's interdisciplinary research theme is to train graduate students to investigate emerging problems at the interface of evolution, development, genomics, and bioinformatics by combining expertise at the University of Oregon and Indiana University. The program's intellectual focus asks how development of new structures and functions evolve in populations over time, and what are the mechanisms of genome change that accompany the evolution of developmental innovations? Innovative education and training features integrate interdisciplinary research as trainees work with co-advisors in different disciplines, take unique Evolution of Development courses, and interact with faculty at the University of Oregon and Indiana University in person and in video conference. Trainees develop professional and personal skills by making critiqued presentations at weekly EvoDevo Journal Clubs, develop teamwork skills working with various faculty on research projects, hone teaching skills in supervised college teaching, gain mentoring skills working with undergraduate minority research students, and contact renowned researchers the annual IGERT symposium. Broader impacts include activities to recruit, mentor, and retain underrepresented graduate students, and the mentoring of research undergraduates from underrepresented groups. The project will increase the cadre of researchers trained to conduct research at the cutting edge of fused academic disciplines, with practical implications for the understanding of complex traits (including multifactorial diseases), the development of improved agricultural crops, and an understanding of how our biological world came to be. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.