Graduate Training in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 描述(由申请人提供)：亚利桑那大学的生物化学、分子和细胞生物学(BMCB)研究生课程是一个跨部门和跨学科的研究生课程，旨在帮助学生掌握在生命科学领域取得长期成功的知识和技能。通过培训学生在分子水平上识别、提出和回答生物科学中的重大开放问题，我们最终为他们提供多个生物学领域的坚实基础知识，并帮助他们发展可转移的技能，以适应他们整个职业生涯中生物学概念和技术进步的快速步伐。这项竞争性续签申请寻求在16-20年内支持一个为我们所有学生提供有效培训的项目，特别是在招收和支持来自代表性不足群体的学生方面取得了巨大成功。我们寻求对10名学员的支持，他们将通过竞争程序从符合培训资助资格的学生中挑选进入BMCB研究生项目。我们的培训计划侧重于贯穿整个培训期间的补充活动，并积极让计划教职员工和学生参与到相互学习的伙伴关系中来。目前，来自5所大学13个系的52名优秀培训员和两个博士学位项目的30名学生参与了该项目。培训教师的研究项目交叉于生物化学、分子和细胞生物学、系统生物学，并在人类健康和疾病的保护伞下，为学生提供了相当多的生物学问题和方法，以选择他们的论文研究项目。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology (BMCB) graduate program at the University of Arizona is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary graduate program that seeks to equip students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in careers in the life sciences for the long term. By training students to identify, ask an answer significant open questions in the biological sciences at the molecular level, we ultimately provide them with solid foundational knowledge in multiple areas of biology and help them to develop transferrable skills to adapt to the rapid pace of conceptual and technological advances in biology throughout their careers. This competitive renewal application seeks support for years 16-20 for a program with a proven history of effective training for all of our students and especially strong success in the recruitment and support of students from underrepresented groups. We seek support for 10 trainees, who will be selected from training grant eligible students enrolled in the BMCB graduate program through a competitive process. Our training program focuses on complementary activities that span the entire training period and that actively engage program faculty and students in a partnership of mutual learning. Currently, 52 accomplished trainers from 13 departments in 5 colleges and 30 students in two PhD degree programs are affiliated with the program. The research programs of the training faculty intersect at the interfaces of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and systems biology and under the umbrella of human health and disease, providing students with considerable breath in biological questions and approaches from which to choose their thesis research projects.