Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：微生物发病机制的分子机制培训计划是密歇根大学医学院的一个既定的和成功的计划。它支持六名博士前学生和两名博士后研究员，每年在密歇根州的高度跨学科的环境。培训发生在实验室与合格和承诺的研究导师和更大的部门内的课程，研讨会，期刊俱乐部和职业发展活动。学生通过一个名为生物医学科学计划（PIBS）的共同机制被招募到密歇根州，该计划是基于UM医学院的14个学位授予计划的互动联盟。通过PIBS录取的学生参加第一年的计划，重点是他们作为年轻科学家的个人职业发展，并确定和选择从中获得学位的14个项目之一。在第一年的培训结束时，他们可以根据对微生物在健康和疾病中的作用的研究的强烈兴趣的证据B MMMP提名支持。该计划的课程要求与微生物学和免疫学系的课程要求一致，MMMP学员也有机会参加MMMP课程的核心课程“临床科学”。在本课程中，MMMP学员从转化的角度探索传染病，学习将他们所接受的基础研究和培训与传染病医学的临床和治疗特征联系起来，因为它是在病房里实践的。多年来，该课程一直吸引着四年级医学生以及医学科学家培训计划的学生，他们对传染病问题背后的最新科学和病原体的机制表示赞赏，这些病原体可能作为新的治疗或疫苗靶点，他们可能有一天会在他们的职业生涯中作为医生使用。MMMP学员也有机会在“青年调查员”计划中与来访的科学家进行广泛的接待和访问，该计划将调查员带到校园参加有关他们研究的研讨会，并与学员会面，讨论他们作为学员所面临的职业道路选择。最近的努力，通过一个共同的机制，类似于如何招募学生招募博士后学员到UM医学院已经成功地确定了MMMP计划的强有力的候选人。MMMP培训计划即将到来的资助期的新努力包括在微生物组和生物信息学中纳入重要的新研究培训，并与拉克姆研究生院学生成功办公室密切合作，开展职业参与和发展计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Molecular Mechanisms in Microbial Pathogenesis Training Program is an established and successful program at the University of Michigan Medical School. It supports six predoctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows per year in the highly interdisciplinary environment of Michigan. Training takes place both in the laboratory with well-qualified and committed research mentors and within the larger Department in courses, seminars, journal clubs and career development activities. Students are recruited to Michigan through a common mechanism called the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) an interactive confederation of 14 degree-granting programs based in the UM Medical School. Students matriculating through PIBS participate in a first year program that focuses them on individual career development as young scientists and on identifying and selecting one of the 14 programs from which to obtain their degrees. At the end of their first year of training, they can b nominated for support by MMMP based on evidence of a strong interest in research into the roles of microbes in health and disease. Coursework requirements for the program is aligned with that of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and MMMP trainees also have the opportunity to participate in the course Science in the Clinics, the centerpiece of the MMMP curriculum. In this course, MMMP trainees explore the infectious diseases from a translational perspective, learning to connect the basic research and training they are receiving with clinical and therapeutic features of infectious disease medicine as it is practiced on the wards. Over the years the course has been attractive to fourth year medical students as well as students in the Medical Scientist Training Program, who gain an appreciation for the most recent science behind infectious diseases problems and the mechanisms of pathogens that may serve as new therapeutic or vaccine targets they might one day use in their careers as physicians. MMMP trainees also have the opportunity to host and visit extensively with visiting scientists in the "Young Investigators" program, which brings investigators to campus for seminars on their research and meetings with trainees to discuss career path choices they were faced with as trainees themselves. Recent efforts to recruit postdoctoral trainees to the UM Medical School through a common mechanism similar to how students are recruited have already been successful in identifying strong candidates for the MMMP Program. New efforts for the upcoming funding period of the MMMP Training Program include incorporating significant new research training in microbiome and bioinformatics and working closely with the Office of Student Success at the Rackham Graduate School on a program of career engagement and development.