Training in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：南加州大学(USC)细胞、生化和分子科学培训计划(CBM培训计划)为学生在跨学科生物医学研究和相关职业中的职业做准备。该计划的主要目标是促进跨学科培训，并使学生了解计算方法，这些方法将对他们当前和未来的研究以及他们的职业生涯有用。学员是从南加州大学14个不同的博士项目中挑选出来的，这些项目涵盖了生物医学和生物科学的所有领域。这确保学员在CBM项目中获得多学科经验，并成为南加州大学的“顶尖人才”。CBM学员具有不同的背景和研究兴趣，来自美国和其他国家的许多地区，包括未被充分代表的少数族裔学生。除了博士项目的要求外，学员还可以从特定于培训项目的活动中受益，包括每月学员研究报告、以计算或职业发展为主题的研讨会、与南加州大学以外的选定演讲者的互动、参与招收新研究生、研究道德标准培训和年度务虚会。CBM计划的计算主题利用了南加州大学在计算基因组学和癌症流行病学方面的特殊优势领域，这两个领域都强调对复杂数据集的定量治疗。大多数CBM实习生在研究生院的第二和第三年得到支持，并继续参加该计划，直到完成博士学位。CBM计划与南加州大学优秀的研究生招生机制密切合作，该机制被称为生物医学和生物科学计划(PIBBS)。在南加州大学的第一年，PIBBS的学生与几名教师轮流工作，这些教师是从南加州大学任何面向生物学的博士项目中挑选出来的。优秀的PIBBS网站每年吸引100多名美国申请者和500多名申请者。教职员工参加全国性和地区性招聘会，包括面向代表性不足的少数族裔学生的招聘会。我们还与当地少数族裔服务机构的博士项目建立了正式的合作伙伴关系。这些措施确保我们会继续吸引不同类别的高质素学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Southern California (USC) Training Program in Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences (CBM Training Program) prepares students for careers in interdisciplinary biomedical research and related occupations. Major goals of the Program are to promote interdisciplinary training and to make students aware of computational methods which will be useful for their current and future research and for their careers. Trainees are selected from 14 different Ph.D. programs at USC which span the entire spectrum of biomedical and biological sciences. This ensures that Trainees receive a multidisciplinary experience in the CBM Program and are the "cream of the crop" at USC. CBM Trainees have diverse backgrounds and research interests, come from many parts of the U.S. and foreign countries, and include under-represented minority students. In addition to the requirements of their Ph.D. programs, Trainees benefit from Training Program-specific activities, including monthly Trainee research presentations, workshops with computational or career development themes, interactions with selected speakers from outside USC, participation in recruitment of new graduate students, training in ethical standards of research, and an annual retreat. The computational theme of the CBM Program takes advantage of areas of special strength at USC in computational genomics and cancer epidemiology, both of which emphasize quantitative treatments of complex data sets. Most CBM Trainees are supported during their second and third years of graduate school and continue to participate in the Program until completion of their Ph.D. degree. The CBM Program works closely with USC's outstanding graduate student recruitment mechanism, called Program in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (PIBBS). During their first year at USC, students in PIBBS rotate with several faculty, chosen from any biologically-oriented Ph.D. program at USC. The outstanding PIBBS web site attracts more than 100 U.S. and more than 500 total applicants per year. Faculty and staff attend national and regional recruitment fairs, including those targeted to under-represented minority students. We also have formal partnerships with BRIDGES-to-the-Ph.D. programs at local minority-serving institutions. These measures ensure that we will continue to attract a diverse group of high-quality trainees.