Training in Parasitology and Vector Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：此申请是为了继续支持耶鲁大学寄生虫学和媒介生物学博士前和博士后培训计划。自1991年成立以来，该计划的目标是通过课程和严格的实验训练为学员提供坚实的知识基础，这些领域采用分子、细胞、免疫学、流行病学和生态学方法来研究病原体及其载体。为了实现这一目标，该项目的理念是将耶鲁大学所有对蠕虫和媒介传播疾病感兴趣并积极研究的教师（总共21名教师）聚集在一起。因此，学员有独特的机会从寄生虫和病媒的角度研究一些病媒传播的疾病，包括疟疾、非洲昏睡病、利什曼病、西尼罗河病毒、人类埃利希体病和莱姆病。这个校园范围内的平台为我们的研究生和博士后提供了最丰富和最广泛的培训环境，并促进了超越部门界限的联系。事实上，培训学院在研究和教学方面有着悠久的合作历史。培训计划的第二个特点是，研究生和博士后有机会通过资助的研究项目和正在进行的合作项目，与来自流行病国家的科学家一起工作，并在非洲、亚洲和南美洲接受培训。该方案的大多数前受训人员正在追求与公共卫生、医学或生物领域的研究或教育直接相关的职业。最后，耶鲁对寄生虫学和媒介生物学的培训做出了实质性的承诺，为新生提供第一年的支持，为培训教师翻新广泛的研究空间，雇佣新的教师，以及在初级和高级水平上提升现有项目的教师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for continued support of a predoctoral and postdoctoral training program in parasitology and vector biology at Yale University. Since its inception in 1991, the goal of the program has been to provide trainees with both a strong intellectual foundation through coursework and rigorous experimental training in areas that take molecular, cellular, immunological, epidemiological and ecological approaches to the study of pathogens and their vectors. To achieve this goal, the philosophy of the program is to bring together all faculty at Yale interested and actively researching helminths and vector-borne diseases (21 faculty in total). Consequently, trainees have the unique opportunity to study a number of vector-borne diseases from both a parasite and vector perspective, including Malaria, African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, West Nile virus, human ehrlichiosis and Lyme disease. This campus-wide platform provides the richest and broadest possible training environment for our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and fosters connections that transcend departmental boundaries. Indeed, the training faculty has a strong history of working together collaboratively in research and teaching. A second distinctive aspect of the training program is the opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to work with scientists from endemic countries and receive training in Africa, Asia and South America through funded research programs and ongoing collaborative projects. The majority of former trainees in the program are pursuing a career directly related to research or education in public health, medical or biological fields. Finally, Yale has made substantial commitments to training in parasitology and vector biology by providing first-year support to incoming students, by renovating extensive research space for training faculty and through hiring of new faculty, as well as promotions of current program faculty at the junior and senior levels.