GRADUATE TRAINING IN MCD BIOLOGY

MCD生物学培训计划将为现代分子生物学、细胞生物学和发育生物学的杰出研究提供必要的技能强化培训。在过去的十年中，培训计划的结构已经建立和完善。即将毕业的学生将承担密集的课程，旨在为他们的研究生生涯提供坚实的框架，强调对科学模型、实验方法和结果的批判性评估。第一年的受训者参加一个实验室轮转项目，他们在三个不同的实验室进行为期十周的研究项目，从而接触到许多不同的实验系统。二年级学生必须通过口头资格考试，高级学生参加各种研讨会，高级专题课程和研究小组会议，以提供持续学习的机会。培训计划的目标是培养优秀的毕业生，他们在论文研究的特定领域有坚实的基础，并在分子，细胞和发育生物学方面接受了广泛的培训。我们项目的特点是一个优秀的，年轻的，高度互动的教师，密切的师生互动，和高质量的研究生培养。MCD生物学项目的研究是由具有共同兴趣的教师组成的，从而创造了大量的研究人员，以促进相互支持和科学互动。其中一个由马基RNA分子生物学中心（Markey Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA）所包围的集群，在RNA研究方面是国际公认的。其他研究领域包括发育生物学、细胞生物学、结构生物学和植物分子生物学。因此，MCD生物学培训计划的学生将接触到各种不同的实验问题和系统。我们要求在项目的第一年提供总共6个博士预科学生职位的支持，这些职位将被授予招收优秀学生，并鼓励我们最优秀的学生表现卓越。培训计划的管理将在执行委员会和计划主任的指导下进行。

The MCD Biology training program will provide intensive training in the skills necessary for outstanding research in modern, molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. The structure of the training program has been established and refined during the past 10 years. Incoming graduate undertake intensive coursework aimed at providing a solid framework upon which to build during their graduate careers, emphasizing critical evaluation of scientific models, experimental approaches, and results. First-year trainees participate in a laboratory rotation program in which they carry out ten-week research projects in three different laboratories, thereby gaining exposure to a number of different experimental systems. Second year students are required to pass an oral qualifying exam, and advanced students participate in a variety of seminars, advanced special topics courses, and research group meetings designs to provide continuing learning opportunities. The goal of the training program is to produce outstanding graduates who have a strong foundation in the specific area of their thesis research, and who are broadly trained in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. The hallmarks of our program are an outstanding, young, and highly interactive faculty, close faculty-student interaction, and high-quality graduate training. Research in the MCD Biology program is organized in clusters of faculty with shared interests, thereby creating critical masses of researchers to foster mutual support and scientific interaction. One such cluster, encompassed by the Markey Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, is internationally recognized for the study of RNA. The foci of the other research cluster include developmental biology, cell biology, structural biology, and plant molecular biology. Students in the MCD Biology training program are therefore exposed to a wide range of different experimental problems and systems. We are requesting support for a total of 6 predoctoral student positions during the first year of the program which will be awarded to recruit outstanding students and to encourage excellence in the performance of our best students. Administration of the training program will be under the direction of an Executive Committee and the Program Director.