Training Program in Cell & Molecular Biology

 描述(由申请人提供)：细胞和分子生物学(CMB)培训计划是一个跨部门、跨校园的计划，为研究生提供基础和生物医学研究前沿领域的培训。该项目位于马里兰大学位于学院公园的旗舰校区，包括来自学院公园校区三所学院和七个系的教师，以及居住在我们位于生物科学和生物技术研究所(IBBR)Shady Grove校区的教师。我们的计划为学生提供一套扎实的必修课，以及选修课、实验室轮换和个性化指导，以指导学生在他们的研究计划中达到最大限度。所有学生都完成了教学科学和负责任的研究行为方面的培训，我们的学生有机会在学院园区的许多本科生班级担任教学助理。我们的教职员工积极进行研究，有出版、资助和对学生培训的承诺的历史。我们的学生完成的博士论文项目在地区和国家科学会议上展示他们的研究；在优秀的期刊上发表他们的工作，大多数人进入学术界、政府实验室或行业的博士后职位。学生们在CMB项目期间一直参加研讨会和期刊俱乐部，并通过特别兴趣会议、年度务虚会和定期非正式的方式与彼此和教职员工进行广泛的互动。我们的学生精力充沛，积极性很高，有一个研究生协会，专门为学生举办实践讲座、职业发展研讨会和社会活动。我们的校园、学生和教职员工是一群来自不同背景的不同个体，他们在广泛的科学领域追求自己的兴趣，从宿主病原体相互作用的生物医学研究，到结构生物学、基础和应用植物生物学、发育生物学、进化生物学等。在此，我们请求首次续签这项在过去五年中支持了10名学生的CMB培训计划。此外，计算机、数学和自然科学学院院长已经并将继续提供两个匹配的名额来支持更多的学生，利用NIH奖项的影响，使我们能够在该计划的前五年支持总共16名学生。 这项CMB培训计划对我们的校园具有巨大的价值，为我们的学生提供了出类拔萃的激励，提高了计划要求的严格性，并为促进职业培训的计划活动提供了基础。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Program in Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) is an interdepartmental, cross- campus program that provides training for graduate students in cutting edge areas of basic and biomedical research. The program is housed on the University of Maryland's flagship campus in College Park and includes faculty from three colleges and seven departments on the College Park campus as well as faculty housed on our Shady Grove campus at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR). Our program trains students with a solid, required set of didactic classes, along with elective classes, laboratory rotations and individualized mentoring to guide students to achieve their utmost in their research programs. All students complete training in Teaching Science and in Responsible Conduct of Research and our students have the opportunity to serve as Teaching Assistants in our many undergraduate classes on the College Park campus. Our faculties are research active with histories of publication, funding and commitment to student training. Our students' complete Ph.D. Thesis projects present their research at regional and national scientific meetings; publish their work in excellent journals and most moves on to postdoctoral positions in academia, government labs or industry. Students attend seminars and journal clubs throughout their time in the CMB program and interact extensively with each other and with faculty through special interest meetings, an Annual Retreat and informally on a regular basis. Our students are energetic and highly motivated, with a graduate student association that meets for student-only practice talks, career development seminars and social events. Our campus, students and faculty are a diverse group of individuals coming together from different backgrounds to pursue their interests in a broad range of scientific areas from biomedical research on host pathogen interactions, to structural biology, basic and applied plant biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology and more. Here, we request the first renewal of this CMB Training Program which has supported ten students over the past five years. In addition, the Dean of the College of Computer, Math and Natural Sciences has provided and will continue to provide two matching slots to support additional students, leveraging the impact of the NIH award, allowing us to support a total of sixteen students over the first five years of the program. This CMB training program has been of tremendous value to our campus, providing incentives for our students to excel, raising the stringency of program requirements, and providing a foundation for program activities that foster career training.