Predoctoral Training Program in Virology

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持耶鲁大学病毒学新的多部门博士前培训计划。耶鲁大学最近成立了一个新的微生物发病机制的学术部门和一个新的博士学位。在微生物学计划，并在病毒学几个充满活力的新教员已被招募。结合耶鲁在病毒学、遗传学、结构生物学和相关领域的现有优势，我们现在已经达到了维持一个充满活力的博士学位的临界质量。病毒学培训计划该计划的一大优势是其教师，他们在总体上提供了病毒学几乎每个方面的专业知识。许多教师都是杰出的研究人员，具有杰出的研究成就和培训经验。该计划的目标是培养科学家，使他们能够在学术界，工业界和政府开展独立，创新的研究事业。他们将接受教学和实验室培训，学习培养病毒的方法，分析病毒生命周期和病毒蛋白，并表征病毒与宿主细胞之间的相互作用。 助学金和学费支持要求九个插槽，足以支持三年内每个班级三名入学学生。具有研究经验和高潜力的学员将通过生物医学和生物科学的联合研究生课程录取。已制定计划，招募少数民族申请人参加这一培训方案。学员必须满足各种要求，包括完成一年半的课程工作，研究轮换，资格考试，教学要求，道德课程和论文研究。 大多数学生将在五到六年内完成学业，并继续从事博士后研究工作。该计划的毕业生将非常适合进行病毒，病毒细胞相互作用和病毒性疾病的基础和应用研究，并将有助于国家应对病毒作为生物恐怖主义武器的威胁。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a new multidepartmental predoctoral training program in virology at Yale University. Yale has recently established a new academic section of Microbial Pathogenesis and a new Ph.D. program in Microbiology, and several energetic new faculty members in virology have been recruited. In conjunction with existing strengths at Yale in virology, genetics, structural biology and related areas, we have now attained the critical mass to sustain a vigorous Ph.D. training program in virology. A great strength of this program is its faculty, which in aggregate provides expertise in virtually every aspect of virology. Many of the faculty are outstanding investigators with distinguished records of research accomplishments and training experience. The goal of this program is to train scientists so that they can carry out independent, innovative research careers in academia, industry, and government. They will receive didactic and laboratory training in methods of growing viruses, analyzing the virus life cycle and viral proteins, and characterizing the interactions between viruses and their host ceils. Stipend and tuition support is requested for nine slots, enough to support three entering students in each class for three years. Trainees with research experience and high potential will be admitted through the Combined Graduate Program in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences. Plans are in place to recruit minority applicants to this training program. Trainees must fulfill a variety of requirements including completion of one and one-half years of course work, research rotations, a qualifying examination, a teaching requirement, a course in ethics, and thesis research. Most students will complete their studies in five to six years and go on to postdoctoral research positions. Graduates of this program will be ideally suited to carryout basic and applied research on viruses, virus-cell interactions, and viral diseases, and will contribute to the nation's response to the threat of viruses as bioterrorist weapons.