Education Component

该应用程序的教育部分将有助于将信息从联盟成员传播给新受训人员和工作人员以及联盟的所有调查人员。这些信息将包括培养炭疽杆菌、处理孢子或营养细菌以及分离内毒素和外毒素的基本问题。这些程序中的每一个都涉及使用前的培训。教育部分还将通过加强现有的一系列研讨会，介绍新的信息。在现有的OMRF研讨会系列的基础上，每年将增加6名外部发言者。演讲者将由这笔赠款的指导委员会挑选，并将成为研究宿主对炭疽病反应的国家专家之一。此外，教育部分将在传播从这一应用程序的技术部分开发的新信息和新技术方面发挥重要作用。

The education component of this application will serve to help disseminate information from consortium members to new trainees and staff as well as to all investigators of the consortium. The information will include basic issues of growing the anthrax bacilli and working with the spores or vegetative bacteria and isolating the endo- and exotoxins. Each of these procedures involves training prior to use. The educational component will also introduce new information through enhancement of an existing seminar series. Six additional outside speakers per year will be added to the existing OMRF seminar series. Speakers will be selected by the steering committee of this grant and be among national experts studying the host response to B. anthracis. In addition, the education component will play an important role in disseminating new information and technologies developed from the technology component of this application.