Nutrition Training

描述（由申请人提供）： 拟议的培训方案是基于营养与 物理、行为和其他生物科学。其强度和 在过去的25年里，营养科学家的培训取得了卓越的成就。 从这个学科整合。该计划的目标是提供 学员对以下方面的相互关系有最新的了解： 食物摄入量、营养状况和健康功能能力， 疾病它还提供了必要的技能，以设计重要的 确定、制定和/或应用所需的方法;以及 进行研究，以促进营养科学的知识。的 该培训所涉及的学科包括人类营养学和 代谢、生理学、生物化学、分子生物学/遗传学、分析 化学、毒理学、人类学、社会学、心理学、流行病学， 统计我们建议培训11名博士预科学员。他们将被选中 从学生谁通常会完成两年的研究生水平 训练学员将与大约90名其他研究生互动 在营养科学部，他们来自大约20个不同的 国家这种多样性提供了一个强大的，支持性的国内网络， 培训期间和之后的国际同事。现有设施 包括（1）一个代谢研究单位（4900平方英尺），设有住院设施， 短期，通宵监督，（2）代谢设施在合作 临床机构，（3）现代化的实验室设施（16，000平方英尺）， 包括我们的稳定同位素实验室的扩展能力，（4）一般 大学实验室资源（例如，生物技术中心），（5） AAALAC认证的动物设施（9，000平方英尺）加上计划中的转基因小鼠 设施（2500平方米）（6）对被调查人员的人身伤害; 通过与美国农业部推广服务处的联系， 与领先的国际研究组织的联系，以及（8）联网 中央和现场计算设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed training program is based on an integration of nutrition with the physical, behavioral, and other biological sciences. Its strength and excellence in training nutrition scientists for the last 25 years are derived from this disciplinary integration. The program's objective is to provide trainees with a state-of-the-art understanding of the interrelationships among food intake, nutritional status, and functional capacities in health and disease. It also provides the skills necessary to design significant investigations; to identify, develop, and/or apply required methodologies; and to execute studies to advance knowledge in the nutritional sciences. The disciplines represented in this training include human nutrition and metabolism, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology/genetics, analytical chemistry, toxicology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, and statistics. We propose to train 11 predoctoral trainees. They will be selected from among students who usually will have completed two years of graduate-level training. Trainees will interact with approximately 90 other graduate students in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, who come from about 20 different countries. This diversity provides a strong, supportive network of domestic and international colleagues during and after training. Available facilities include (1) a metabolic research unit (4900 sq ft) with in-patient facility for short-term, overnight supervision, (2) metabolic facilities at collaborating clinical institutions, (3) modern laboratory facilities (16,000 sq ft), including expanded capabilities in our stable isotope laboratory, (4) general university laboratory resources (e.g., Biotechnology Center), (5) AAALAC-accredited animal facilities (9,000 sq ft) plus planned transgenic mouse facilities (2500 sq. ft) assigned to the Division, (6) access to domestic and international field sites through affiliations with the USDA Extension Service and ties to leading international research organizations, and (8) networked central and on-site computing facilities.