Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

节目概要 爱荷华州大学的遗传学跨学科研究生项目有45年的培训历史 遗传学博士生，当时有100多名毕业生。该计划目前为71名教师提供服务 和43名学生在四个学院和17个学术部门在我们的校园。自从上一次 竞争提交此应用程序，我们的跨学科教师增长了4，平均7 每年都有新的学生进入该计划。我们的计算遗传学子轨道是第一个 计划在该国提供深入的博士培训之间的接口遗传学，基因组学和 生物信息学，15名学生现在已经从子轨道毕业，其中4人已经在教师 岗位我们在项目完成率、按时毕业率、出版物和 奖项，以及博士后奖学金和研究密集型学校的教师职位的职业发展 高校我们在使学生多样化方面不断取得进展， 制定了若干战略，以建立少数民族学生的核心，并提高这些学生的保留率， 实际上，所有的学生都参加了这个项目。在此更新申请中，我们要求继续六个奖学金 我们目前有机会为我们的高素质和富有成效的学生干部服务。本申请 将概述我们在过去40年的计划存在的成功，我们目前的结构，并计划 未来在多样性方面的改进，加强职业发展倡议，以实现就业的多样性，以及 作为学生和教师的指导。我们有一个有凝聚力的学生群体与广泛和多样化的工作 代表遗传学界各方面的教师的集合。最后，我们有一个稳定的程序。 领导在教师和行政水平和研究生院内非常强大的支持， 该机构不仅有助于确保该计划的持续成功，而且有助于进一步加强 在科学事业越来越具有挑战性的时候，

Program Summary The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa has a 45-year history of training PhD students in Genetics, with well over 100 graduates in that time. The program currently serves 71 faculty and 43 students in four colleges and 17 academic departments across our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application, our interdisciplinary faculty has grown by 4 with an average of 7 new students entering the program each year. Our Computational Genetics subtrack was one of the first programs in the country to offer in-depth PhD training at the interface between genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and 15 students have now graduated from the subtrack, four of which are already in faculty positions. We have an enviable record of program completion, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards, as well as career advancement to postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions at research-intensive universities. We have made continuing progress in diversifying our student population, and incorporated several strategies to build on a nucleus of minority students, as well as to enhance the retention of these and indeed all students in the program. In this renewal application we request a continuation of the six fellowship slots we currently have available to serve our cadre of high quality and productive students. This application will outline our successes over the last 40 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements in diversity, enhanced career development initiatives for versatility in employment, as well as student and faculty mentoring. We have a cohesive group of students working with a broad and diverse collection of faculty who represent the genetics community in all its facets. Finally we have stable program leadership at both the faculty and administrative level and very strong support within the graduate college and the institution that helps to ensure not only the continued success of the program but its further strengthening and diversification at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.