Training Program in Genetics General and Medical

该计划的主要目标是培养研究生有效地发挥遗传学家的作用，使他们能够将遗传学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，植物，线虫，昆虫，鱼类和小鼠遗传学，衰老和群体遗传学，基因组学和计算遗传学。 该计划支持的博士前学员从这些子学科之一的论文研究中获得特定的专业知识，同时从正式课程，第一年的研究轮换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计划提供了进一步的视角，并提供了宝贵的互动与博士后研究员，其研究培训也融入了该计划。获得遗传学的医学和临床方面都来自正式的课程，并从与医学系医学遗传学部的关联。该培训计划吸引了来自大学多个部门的遗传专业知识的教师，包括艺术与科学学院的生物学系，医学院的基因组科学，生物化学，微生物学，病理学和儿科学系，以及弗雷德哈钦森癌症研究中心的基础科学部。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The principal objective of this 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, plant, nematode, insect, fish, and mouse genetics, aging and population genetics, and genomics and computational genetics. 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 exchange 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. The training program draws faculty with genetic expertise from a number of departments at the University, including the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Departments of Genome Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, as well as with the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.