Graduate Training in Developmental Biology

这是一个有竞争力的更新，在发育生物学博士前的培训计划，在大学， 宾夕法尼亚该培训计划作为一个融点和凝聚力在发育生物学，因为它 包括分布在大学四个学院的培训师和来自8个研究生团体的学生。的 培训计划还作为研究生培训新举措的孵化器， 由研究生团体改编。该计划继续利用一个非常强大的纲领性的优势， 宾夕法尼亚大学发育生物学基金会。培训计划的目标是提供 基础广泛的培训，使用最先进的技术， 利用脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和植物生物多样性的发育生物学。研究培训领域 包括控制细胞分化、迁移、器官发生、细胞 衰老、形态发生、模式形成、发育过程的表观遗传调节和茎 细胞生物学受训人员接受正式的教学，包括既定的学习课程， 在发育生物学和遗传，细胞和分子方法的高级研讨会， 发展机制和疾病。学生还参加发育生物学期刊俱乐部， 发育生物学研讨会系列，包括学生邀请演讲者，研究讨论小组， 选定的主题，并在年度科学研讨会。学员在部门会议上介绍研究成果 研讨会、地方专题讨论会和全国性会议。最后，培训计划为学员提供具体的 活动：a）每年举行一次专题讨论会，在一个更正式的场合介绍他们的工作， 评估培训计划的外部发言人; B）职业发展活动，如职业生涯 在科学会议上与受邀演讲者讨论职业选择;为毕业生量身定制的迷你写作课程 学生涵盖深入资助和手稿写作;实验设计和培训的迷你课程 c）展示和讲述研究日，学员在这些研究日中向其他人演讲， 学员介绍他们的项目，然后动手示范研究技术所采用的 实习生演示者，例如活细胞成像，d）与宾夕法尼亚大学教员午餐时间讨论实习生的选择， 了解教师的研究领域和/或讨论实验室管理或职业道路的决定，e）一天 长期访问一家制药公司，探索在这一领域工作的不同方面。拟议 培训计划每年要求8名受训人员。受训人员将每年由一个特设培训员委员会挑选， 任期一年，并可选择在取得令人满意的进展后再连任一年。培训成果 将每年通过衡量学员出版物、个人培训奖励的过渡、学员 调查、外部评估，所有这些都将由一个执行委员会审查。最后，培训师 参加了在当地和全国征聘代表性不足的少数群体的一些努力。

This is a competitive renewal for a predoctoral Training Program in developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Training Program serves as a melting and cohesion point in developmental biology as it includes trainers spread across four schools within the University, and students from 8 graduate groups. The Training Program also serves as an incubator for new initiatives in graduate training that continue to be adapted by graduate groups. The program continues to take advantage of an exceptionally strong programmatic foundation in developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Training Program’s goal is to provide broad-based training that uses state of the art technologies towards the fundamental mechanisms of developmental biology using a diversity of vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant organisms. Research training areas include transcription and cell signaling that control cell differentiation, migration, organogenesis, cellular senescence, morphogenesis, pattern formation, epigenetic regulation of developmental processes, and stem cell biology. Trainees receive formal instruction in an established curriculum of study, including lecture courses in developmental biology and advanced seminars on genetic, cellular, and molecular approaches to developmental mechanisms and disease. Students also participate in developmental biology journal clubs, a developmental biology seminar series that includes student invited speakers, research discussion groups on selected topics, and in annual scientific symposia. Trainees present their research findings at departmental seminars, local symposia and national conferences. Finally, the training program provides trainee specific activities: a) a yearly symposium to present their work in a more formal setting that includes an eminent external speaker who evaluates the training program; b) Professional development activities, such as careers in science meetings with invited speakers to discuss career options; mini-writing classes tailored to graduate students covering in depth grant and manuscript writing; a mini courses in experimental design, and training sessions with communication professionals; c) Show and Tell research days where trainees lecture other trainees about their project followed by a hands-on demonstration of research techniques employed by the trainee presenter, e.g. live cell imaging, d) lunchtime discussion with a Penn faculty of the trainee’s choice to learn about the faculty’s field of research and/or to discuss lab management or career path decisions, e) a day long visit to a pharmaceutical company to explore different aspects of working in this sector. The proposed training program requests 8 trainees per year. Trainees will be selected annually by an ad hoc trainer committee, and appointed for one year with the option for a second year pending satisfactory progress. Training outcomes will be evaluated yearly by measuring trainee publications, transitions to individual training awards, trainee surveys, an external evaluation, which all will be reviewed by an Executive Committee. Lastly, Trainers participate in a number of efforts to recruit under-represented minorities both locally and nationally.