NRT-ROL: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Phenotype: EXPANDing Training in Research and Careers

表型几乎是生命科学中每个过程的中心，从疾病易感性和病原体毒力到农业产量，到引进物种的入侵，再到管理实践的可持续性。发现表型是如何建立的，并与环境相互作用，是解决现实世界的挑战，从人类健康和疾病，粮食安全，管理生物和生态多样性，面对人类对环境的影响的关键。 世纪的生命科学家将需要超越传统的学科界限，转变对复杂性状的理解，解决这些问题。 医疗保健，农业，保护，管理和数据科学的专业人员都需要一个新的综合培训，以超越传统研究孤岛的约束思维。弗吉尼亚大学的国家科学基金会研究培训奖将通过新的跨规模研究生课程和对生命科学专业发展和职业准备的计划重点来解决这些需求。该培训计划预计将为130多名学生提供独特的跨学科培训机会，其中包括30名受资助的学员，涵盖从生物医学科学到生物学，心理学和环境科学的生命科学，制定明确的综合教育方法和文化，拥抱多样性，创造创新，促进专业发展。学员将垂直整合来自整个生命科学的想法和技术，并在传统学科之间建立合作网络，这将改变表型研究的方式。该培训计划引入了一个新的研究生课程，将创新的跨规模研究培训与广泛的定量工具包的开发相结合。专业发展，包括通过职业探索和实习，以及沟通和定量技能的各种职业的正式准备，将在整个研究生培训编织，以产生有助于广泛的社会挑战的学员。该计划将通过从科学到科学家的包容性文化来增强生命科学的多样性，包括非学术和学术职业的招聘，指导和培训。该计划将发展与UVA职业服务和数据科学学院的联系，并加强初出茅庐的博士+计划，导致研究生培训的持久制度变革。项目创新将通过职业服务和研究生培训网络与其他机构分享。 NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的，新的潜在变革模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求相一致的综合培训模式，在高优先级的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The phenotype is at the center of virtually every process in the life sciences, from disease susceptibility and pathogen virulence, to agricultural yield, to invasions of introduced species, to the sustainability of management practices. Discovering how the phenotype is built and interacts with the environment is a key to solving the real-world challenges that range from human health and disease, to food security, to managing biological and ecological diversity in the face of anthropogenic impacts on the environment. 21st century life scientists will need to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to transform the understanding of complex traits and solve these problems. Professionals in health care, agriculture, conservation, management and data science all require a new integrative training to move past the constrained thinking of traditional research silos. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to the University of Virginia will address these demands through a new cross-scale graduate curriculum and a programmatic focus on professional development and career preparation in the life sciences. The traineeship anticipates providing a unique interdisciplinary training opportunity to over 130 students, including 30 funded trainees, across the life sciences from Biomedical Sciences, to Biology, Psychology, and Environmental Sciences, developing an explicitly integrated approach to education and a culture that embraces diversity, creates innovation, and fosters professional development. Trainees will vertically integrate ideas and techniques from across the life sciences and generate a network of collaborations across traditional disciplines that will transform the way that the phenotype is investigated. The training program introduces a new graduate curriculum that combines innovative cross-scale research training with development of a broad quantitative toolkit. Professional development that includes formal preparation for a diverse range of careers through career exploration and internships, as well as communication and quantitative skills, will be woven throughout graduate training to produce trainees that contribute to a broad range of societal challenges. The program will enhance diversity in the life sciences through a culture of inclusivity that runs from science to scientist including recruiting, mentoring, and training for both non-academic and academic careers. The program will develop connections with UVA Career Services and the School for Data Sciences and enhance the fledgling PhD+ program, leading to lasting institutional change in graduate training. Program innovations will be shared with other institutions through career services and graduate training networks. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.