TRAINING PROGRAM IN GENETICS GENERAL AND MEDICAL

我们项目的主要目标是培养研究生有效地发挥遗传学家的作用，使他们能够将遗传方法的严谨性应用于当代生物学和医学的相关问题。培训教师采取的各种方法确保了广泛的培训范围，包括微生物遗传学，人类和临床遗传学，酵母和植物遗传学，双翼类和线虫的发育遗传学，免疫遗传学，老龄化，群体遗传学，以及基因组学的新方向。该项目支持的博士预科学员从其中一个分支学科的论文研究中获得特定的专业知识，同时从正式课程、第一年的研究轮转和期刊俱乐部中获得更广泛的知识视野。一个完善的研讨会和其他论坛的研究成果交流项目提供了进一步的观点，并提供了与博士后的有价值的互动，他们的研究培训也纳入了该项目。获得遗传学的医学和临床方面的途径既来自正式的课程，也来自与医学系医学遗传学部门的联系。我们与大学其他单位的合作为学员提供了更广泛的专业知识，包括艺术与科学学院的植物和动物学系、医学院的生物化学系、病理学系和儿科系，以及弗雷德·哈钦森癌症研究中心的基础科学部。

The principal objective of our program is to train graduate students to function effectively as geneticists, enabling them to apply the rigor of genetic methods to pertinent issues in contemporary biology and medicine. The variety of approaches taken by the training faculty ensures a broad scope of training that encompasses microbial genetics, human and clinical genetics, yeast and plant geneticists, the developmental genetics of dipterans and nematodes, immunogenetics, aging, population genetics, as well as new directions in genomics. The predoctoral trainees supported by this program gain specific expertise from thesis research in one of these subdisciplines while gaining a broader intellectual outlook from formal coursework, first-year research rotations, and journal club. A well-established program of seminars and other forums for exchanges of research findings lends further perspective and provides valuable interaction with postdoctoral fellows, whose research training is also integrated into the program. Access to medical and clinical aspects of genetics derives both from formal coursework and from association with the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Medicine. A greater breadth of expertise is afforded the trainees by our affiliation with other units of the University, including the Departments of Botany and Zoology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Departments of Biochemistry, Pathology, and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, as well as with the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.