Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

描述(由申请人提供)：爱荷华州遗传学博士前培训计划已有25年的历史，在此期间有65名学生获得了博士学位。该计划目前服务于55名教职员工和44名学生，是我们校园生物科学计划的旗舰研究生计划。自从上次竞争提交这份申请以来，我们的师资队伍已经增加了12人，入学人数从平均每年6人增加到现在的9人。我们在学生保留率、按时毕业率、出版物和奖项以及职业晋升到博士后奖学金和研究密集型大学的教职方面都有令人羡慕的记录。特别值得注意的是，我们的项目在校园内建立比较基因组学和生物信息学的研究生课程方面发挥了核心作用，特别是通过在遗传学博士学位中加入计算遗传学子轨道选项，已经有两名学生毕业进入教职员工职位。在这份续签申请中，我们请求延续我们目前提供的六个奖学金名额，为我们的高素质和多产的学生干部提供服务。这份申请将概述我们在过去25年中取得的成功，我们目前的结构，以及未来改进的计划。我们有一群有凝聚力的学生，他们与广泛而多样的教职员工一起工作，他们代表了遗传学社区的各个方面。最后，我们在教师和管理层都有稳定的项目领导，在研究生院内部有非常强大的支持，这不仅有助于确保该项目的持续成功，而且在科学职业证明日益具有挑战性的时候，它还能进一步得到加强。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics in Iowa has a 25-year history during which 65 students have graduated with a Ph.D. The program currently serves 55 faculty and 44 students and has been a flagship graduate program in the Biosciences initiative efforts on our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application our faculty has grown by 12 with the number of entering students increasing from an average of 6 per year to now 9. We have an enviable record of student retention, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards and career advancement to postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions at research-intensive universities. Of particular note is the central role that our program has played in building graduate programs in comparative genomics and bioinformatics on campus and, in particular, by incorporating a computational genetics subtrack option into the Genetics Ph.D. that has already graduated two students into faculty positions. In this renewal application we request a continuation of the six fellowship slots we currently have available to serve our cadre of high quality and productive students. This application will outline our successes over the last 25 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements. We have a cohesive group of students working with a broad and diverse collection of faculty who represent the genetics community in all its facets. Finally we have stable program leadership at both the faculty and administrative level and very strong support within the graduate college that helps to ensure not only the continued success of the program but its further strengthening at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.