Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

描述(由申请人提供)：爱荷华大学遗传学博士前培训项目已有40年的历史，在此期间有80多名学生毕业于博士学位。该项目目前为我们校园内四所学院和18个学术部门的67名教职员工和44名学生提供服务。自从上一次竞争提交这份申请以来，我们的跨学科教师人数增加了12人，平均每年有8名新学生进入该项目。我们拥有令人羡慕的学生保留率、按时毕业率、出版物和奖项，以及在研究密集型大学获得博士后奖学金和教师职位的职业晋升记录。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研究生课程方面发挥了核心作用。我们已经看到了遗传学博士学位中新生的计算遗传学子轨道选项的发展和巩固，现在已经有7名学生从该轨道毕业，其中4人已经在教员岗位上。我们最近在使学生群体多样化方面取得了进展，并纳入了几项战略，以加强少数族裔学生的核心地位，并加强这些学生乃至所有学生在该计划中的留存。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40年中取得的成功，我们目前的结构，以及未来在多样性、毕业时间和指导方面的改进计划。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，我们在教职员工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，也有助于确保该项目的进一步加强和多样化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa has a 40-year history during which more than 80 students have graduated with a Ph.D. The program currently serves 67 faculty and 44 students in four colleges and 18 academic departments across our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application, our interdisciplinary faculty has grown by 12 with an average of 8 new students entering the program each year. We have an enviable record of student retention, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards, as well as 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. We have seen growth and solidification of the nascent Computational Genetics subtrack option in the Genetics Ph.D., with now seven students that have already graduated from the track, four of which are already in faculty positions. We have made recent progress in diversifying our student population, and incorporated several strategies to build on a nucleus of minority students, as well as to enhance the retention of these and indeed all students in the program. 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 40 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements in diversity, graduation times and mentoring. 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 and diversification at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.