Post-Baccalaureate Training in Infectious Diseases Research

描述(由申请者提供)：佐治亚大学(UGA)为响应NIGMS对研究生研究教育计划(PREP R25)的建议，提出了一个名为“传染病研究后培训”的计划。弗吉尼亚大学坚定地致力于加强大学各级的多样性，并在招收和成功毕业属于历史上代表性不足的群体的学生方面取得了重大进展，包括种族和族裔少数群体以及残疾学生。UGA准备将利用UGA在传染病研究方面的非凡实力，以及其几个与生物相关的系和数学的强大研究生课程，每年为8名代表不足的少数族裔和残疾学员提供密集的研究经验。来自UGA传染病学院的33名教员分别来自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系，他们将把UGA预科学员纳入他们的实验室，提供独特的、有结构的和有指导的一年研究经验。再加上一些专门针对预科和综合性(博士生)的小组活动，后者由NIH T32遗传学和热带及新兴全球疾病培训计划以及旨在提高和支持属于代表性不足群体的研究生的成功而设计的现有计划丰富，这些研究经验将为学员提供UGA教职员工认为对于成功进入和完成生物科学博士课程至关重要的技能和属性。每个受训人员将在一个指导小组的指导和一名个人导师的支持下，由专门设计的个性化发展计划(IDP)指导，以进一步加强这些技能和特质的发展。UGA Prep将从UGA项目以及通过UGA Prep教员和UGA研究生院建立的本科生顾问和研究生协调员网络招募合格的候选人，以确保该计划培养致力于生物医学研究事业的年轻科学家，他们需要获得更多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.