BASIC IMMUNOLOGY

简介(申请人提供)：近40年来，杜克大学因出色的免疫学研究和培训而享誉国际。杜克大学的免疫学家和他们的学员在基础和临床免疫生物学方面做出了重大贡献。为了延续这一卓越的传统并保持其发展，拟议的杜克大学基础免疫学培训计划将提供优秀的基础免疫学博士后和博士后培训，通过提供一流科学所需的智力框架和研究技能，为年轻研究人员做好准备。拟议的培训学院由27名免疫学家组成，他们在免疫学系担任初级或二级职务。遴选委员会(SC)将从被杜克大学免疫学研究生计划录取的学生中挑选优秀的博士前实习生。这些能力很强的学生将进入一个基于精心挑选的核心课程的研究生课程，该课程提供了基础免疫学、细胞和分子生物学以及遗传学的高超基础。培训计划中的研究生将得到两年的资助，直到他们被允许成为博士候选人并开始论文研究。博士后申请者也将由SC从培训计划的申请或拟议培训学院的个人成员中挑选。博士后研究员可以接受指导培训，以加强他们对免疫学研究的准备，并将参加伦理培训和项目研讨会。对于研究生和研究生学员，拟议的培训方案将强调实验战略和设计、数据的分析和解释、对主要文献的理解和知识以及研究结果的交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For almost 40 years, Duke University has been internationally recognized for outstanding immunological research and training. Duke immunologists and their trainees have made significant contributions to basic and clinical immunobiology. To continue this tradition of excellence and sustain its growth, the proposed Duke University Training Program in Basic Immunology will provide outstanding pre- and postdoctoral training in fundamental immunology, preparing young investigators by providing the intellectual framework and research skills necessary for first-rate science. The proposed Training Faculty is comprised of 27 immunologists who hold primary or secondary appointments in the Department of Immunology. A selections committee (SC) will choose outstanding predoctoral trainees from the students accepted into the Duke Graduate Program in Immunology. These highly capable students will enter a graduate program based on a carefully chosen core curriculum that provides superb grounding in basic immunology, cell and molecular biology, and genetics. Graduate students in the Training Program will be supported for two years, until their admission to doctoral candidacy and the initiation of dissertation research. Postdoctoral applicants will also be selected by the SC from applications to the Training Program or to individual members of the proposed Training Faculty. Postdoctoral fellows may undertake didactic training to augment their preparation for immunological research and will participate in ethics training and Program seminars. For both graduate and postgraduate trainees, the proposed Training Program will stress experimental strategy and design, analysis and interpretation of data, understanding and knowledge of the primary literature, and communication of research findings.