Genetics and Genomics PhD Training Grant

 描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个更新的应用程序，以支持10名研究生在他们的第二年的博士学位。哈佛医学院遗传学和基因组学（PGG）课程。该计划的目标是为我们的学生提供全面而严格的遗传学培训，包括遗传和基因组数据的定量分析。这种培训来自课程，计划活动和论文研究。学生有机会进行博士学位。研究在几个实验室之一，围绕，但不限于，遗传学系。培训补助金学院的实验室涵盖广泛的研究领域，从原核基因调控到人类生物学和疾病。由培训补助金支持的学生是生物和生物医学科学（BBS）计划的一部分，这是一个包括六个部门的大型伞式计划。然而，PGG的学生参加了一个程序，这是从BBS的学生在其重点遗传学和基因组学的休息不同。PGG学生是根据他们在研究生院的第一年或第二年对该计划的兴趣以及他们对论文实验室的选择而自行选择的。该计划的学生必须将他们的课程工作集中在遗传学和基因组学方面，包括要求参加生物数据定量分析课程。我们的学生将在选择课程和轮换指导教师顾问谁是PGG的一部分。PGG学生还将参加一系列计划活动，包括（1）年度研讨会，（2）每月会议，让他们谈论自己的研究，与高年级学生互动，并与 博士后，包括那些研究临床遗传学，和（3）有机会邀请和主办两个外部研讨会发言人每年。学生将被监测为博士学位的进展。由他们的论文顾问委员会，其中将包括，除了论文顾问，至少一名PGG教员。此外，学生将撰写摘要，并通过海报或在我们的年度研讨会上演讲来展示他们的作品。总的来说，这个培训计划应该为我们的学生提供出色的培训，使他们成为遗传学和基因组学领域的高产独立调查人员。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application to support 10 graduate students in their second year of a Ph.D. Program in Genetics and Genomics (PGG) at Harvard Medical School. The goal of this program is to provide our students with comprehensive and rigorous training in genetics, including quantitative analysis of genetic and genomic data. This training comes from coursework, program activities, and dissertation research. The students have the opportunity to carry out Ph.D. research in one of several laboratories, centered around, but not exclusive to, the Department of Genetics. The laboratories of training grant faculty cover a wide range of research areas, ranging from prokaryotic gene regulation to human biology and disease. Students supported by the training grant are part of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) program, a large umbrella program that includes six departments. However, PGG students participate in a program that is distinct from the rest of BBS students in its focus on genetics and genomics. PGG students are self-selected for the program based on their expressed interest in the program during their first or second year of graduate school and their choice of dissertation laboratory. Students in the program are required to concentrate their course work in genetics and genomics, including a requirement to take a course in the quantitative analysis of biological data. Our students will be guided in choosing courses and rotations by faculty advisors who are part of the PGG. PGG students will also participate in a set of programmatic activities, including (1) an annual symposium, (2) monthly meetings that will allow them to talk about their own research, to interact with senior students, and to interact with postdocs, including those studying clinical genetics, and (3) the opportunity to invite and host two outside seminar speakers each year. Students will be monitored for progress towards a Ph.D. by their dissertation advisory committees, which will include, in addition to the dissertatio advisor, at least one PGG faculty member. Furthermore, students will write abstracts and present their work by either a poster or a talk at our annual symposium. Taken together, this training plan should provide outstanding training for our students to become highly productive independent investigators in the areas of genetics and genomics.