POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOLOGY

描述：这是一个竞争性的延续申请，要求4、3年的博士后职位。加州大学戴维斯分校（University of California Davis）的环境病理学项目目前已进入第20个年头，该项目支持一个由兽医病理学学生组成的亚专业小组，这些学生的研究和职业兴趣是环境因素对健康的影响。它是由病理学、微生物学和免疫学系和比较病理学研究生组管理的一个更大的疾病发病机制研究培训计划的一部分。作为获得董事会资格和博士学位的6年整体课程的参与者，环境病理学研究生通常需要完成临床培训，并进入研究生和研究项目。加州大学戴维斯分校环境病理学培训项目的重点是将疾病的细胞和分子机制应用于由环境中存在的病原体引起的人类健康问题。培训采用专门定制的比较病理学博士学位课程的形式。3到4年的研究项目的前12个月主要用于学习病理学和环境毒理学的高级课程，并通过研究实验室的研讨会和轮岗介绍加州大学戴维斯分校的环境研究项目。培训内容包括比较解剖病理学和基础细胞生物学、疾病的细胞和分子基础、生化毒理学和药理学等课程。培训的第二部分包括一个论文研究项目，由其中一个多学科单位的18个项目教师之一指导。课程作业和实验室研究经验必须足以使受训者获得博士学位。目前活跃的领域包括生殖毒物和致畸物、空气污染物、农药、工业和天然毒物、环境致癌、电磁场的影响、肝毒素和肺毒素。

DESCRIPTION: This is application is for a competing continuation and requests 4, three year postdoctoral positions. The environmental pathology program at University of California Davis, currently entering it's 20th year, supports a subspecialty group of veterinary pathology students whose research and career interests is in health effects of environmental agents. It is a part of a larger research training program in pathogenesis of disease administered by the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and the graduate group in comparative pathology. As participants in a 6-year overall program leading to board eligibility and the Ph.D., environmental pathology graduate students are generally expected to have completed their clinical training and have entered their graduate and research program. The emphasis of the environmental pathology training program at UC Davis is on the application of cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease to human health problems caused by agents present in the environment. The training uses the format of a specialty-tailored Ph.D. degree program in comparative pathology. The first 12 months of the 3 to 4-year research program are spent primarily in taking advanced coursework appropriate to pathology and environmental toxicology and an introduction to the environmental research program at UC Davis through seminars and rotations in research laboratories. The training includes comparative anatomic pathology and coursework in basic cell biology, the cell and molecular basis of disease, biochemical toxicology, and pharmacology. The second part of the training consists of a thesis research project under the direction of one of the 18 program faculty within one of the multidisciplinary units. The coursework and laboratory research experience must be sufficient to qualify the trainee for the PhD degree. Currently active areas include reproductive toxicants and teratogens, hazards posed by air pollutants, pesticides, industrial and natural toxicants, environmental carcinogenesis, effects of electromagnetic fields, and hepatotoxins and pneumotoxins.