Post-Baccalaureate Training in Infectious Diseases Research

描述（由申请人提供）：佐治亚大学（UGA）提出了“传染病研究学士学位后培训”计划，以响应NIGMS对学士学位后研究教育计划（PREP R25）提案的呼吁。佐治亚大学坚定地致力于提高各大学的多样性，并在招收和成功毕业的学生方面取得了重大进展，这些学生属于历史上代表性不足的群体，包括种族和少数民族以及残疾学生。佐治亚大学预科将利用佐治亚大学在传染病研究方面的卓越实力，以及在其几个生物相关部门和数学方面的强大研究生课程，每年为8名代表性不足的少数民族和残疾学员提供深入的研究经验。来自UGA传染病学院的33名教师，他们属于生物化学和分子生物学，细胞生物学，生态学，昆虫学，遗传学，传染病，数学，微生物学和人口健康等部门，将把UGA PREP学员纳入他们的实验室，提供独特的，结构化的和指导的一年研究经验。再加上一些prep特定和整合（与博士生）小组活动，后者由NIH T32遗传学和热带和新兴全球疾病培训计划丰富，以及旨在增强和支持属于代表性不足群体的研究生成功的现有计划。这些研究经历将为受训者提供佐治亚大学教师认为成功进入和完成生物科学博士课程所必需的技能和属性。在指导团队的指导和个人导师的支持下，每位学员都将接受专门设计的个性化发展计划（IDP）的指导，以进一步加强这些技能和属性的发展。UGA PREP将从UGA项目中招募合格的候选人，并通过与UGA PREP教师和UGA研究生院建立的本科顾问和研究生协调员的网络，以确保该计划培训致力于生物医学研究事业的年轻科学家，并需要获得额外的研究经验和学术证书来实现这一目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Georgia (UGA) proposes a program in "Post-baccalaureate Training in Infectious Diseases Research" in response to the NIGMS call for Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP R25) proposals. UGA is strongly committed to enhancing diversity at all university levels, and has made major strides in recruiting and successfully graduating students belonging to historically underrepresented groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and students with disabilities. The UGA PREP will draw on UGA's remarkable strength in infectious diseases research, as well as strong graduate programs in several of its biology-related departments and mathematics, to provide intensive research experiences for eight underrepresented minority and disabled trainees each year. Thirty-three faculty drawn from the UGA Faculty of Infectious Diseases, who belong to the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Ecology, Entomology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Mathematics, Microbiology, and Population Health, will incorporate UGA PREP trainees into their laboratories, providing a unique, structured and mentored one-year research experience. Coupled with a number of PREP-specific and integrative (with PhD student) group activities, the latter enriched by NIH T32 training programs in Genetics and Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, as well as existing programs designed to enhance and support the success of graduate students belonging to underrepresented groups, these research experiences will provide trainees with the skills and attributes the UGA faculty feel are essential for successful entrance to and completion of bioscience PhD programs. Each trainee will be guided by a specifically designed, individualized development plan (IDP) to further enhance development of these skills and attributes, with guidance by a mentoring team and with the support of a personal mentor. The UGA PREP will recruit well-qualified candidates from UGA programs as well as via networks with undergraduate advisors and graduate coordinators established by UGA PREP faculty and the UGA Graduate School to ensure that the Program trains young scientists who are committed to a career in biomedical research and who need to gain additional research experience and academic credentials to achieve this goal.