Graduate Training in Genetics

描述(由申请人提供)：俄勒冈大学正在进行的遗传学研究生研究培训项目需要继续提供支持。我们的目标是培养对基因功能和遗传的进化、分子、细胞和发育背景有鉴赏力的具有创造力、严谨和实验技能的科学家。我们的目标是帮助学生发展领导他们自己的研究项目的技能，向普通公众传播科学，并教授下一代遗传学家。活跃实验室中的研究培训为我们的计划提供了支柱。我们要求学员在三个核心领域(分子遗传学、发育遗传学和进化遗传学)和统计学方面进行研究生水平的课程学习，以确保坚实的知识基础。课程作业在第一年通过密集的实验室轮换计划来补充。我们在实验室和课程工作中提供了丰富的增强和拓展经验--教学、期刊俱乐部、学生研究演讲、外部演讲者的系列研讨会等等。在一个包括大约55名博士生和23名教职员工的项目中，需要为9个博士前实习生职位申请资金。该项目汇集了来自三个研究所(分子生物学研究所、神经科学研究所和生态与进化研究所)和三个系(生物、化学和心理学)的学生和教职员工。该计划通过其高度协作的培训教员团队促进跨学科培训，他们的专业知识横跨经典遗传学、基因组学和相关学科的广度。学生很容易在不同系和研究所的实验室之间移动，这是因为GTG所有的教职员工实验室都很近，而且我们的教职员工致力于将这种移动的官僚障碍降至最低。绝大多数以前的受训人员都有良好的出版记录，并受雇于生物医学研究和/或教学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for an ongoing program in graduate research training in Genetics at the University of Oregon. Our goal is to produce creative, rigorous, and experimentally skilled scientists with an appreciation for the evolutionary, molecular, cellular, and developmental contexts of gene function and heredity. We aim to help students develop the skills to lead research programs of their own, communicate science to the lay public, and teach the next generation of geneticists. Research training within an active laboratory provides the backbone of our program. We ensure a solid intellectual foundation by requiring trainees to take graduate level coursework in three core areas (molecular genetics, developmental genetics, and evolutionary genetics) and in statistics. Coursework is complemented in the first year by an intensive laboratory rotation program. We surround the lab and coursework with a wealth of enhancing and broadening experiences -- teaching, journal clubs, student research talks, seminar series by outside speakers, and more. Funds are requested for nine predoctoral trainee positions within a program that includes approximately 55 Ph.D. students and 23 faculty. The program brings together students and faculty from three research institutes (Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and Institute of Ecology and Evolution) and three Departments (Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology). The program fosters interdisciplinary training via its highly collaborative group of training faculty, whose expertise spans the breadth of classical genetics, genomics, and allied disciplines. Students move easily between laboratories in the different departments and institutes due to the close proximity of all GTG faculty labs and to our faculty's commitment to minimizing bureaucratic barriers to such movement. The vast majority of former trainees have strong publication records and are employed in biomedical research and/or teaching.