Genetics and Genomics Training Grant

遗传学和基因组学大学计划（UPGG）有近40年的培训历史 杜克大学的研究生。该计划多年来一直保持着精英的地位 通过与实验和分析技术的变化共同发展， 科学文化，职业发展和学生人口统计。目前，UPGG是一个学位- 授予约50名学生和90名教师的计划，并在各部门任命 医学院、工程学院和艺术与科学学院。UPGG学生有 有机会在广泛的基础研究问题，包括染色体， 核酸和基因表达;发育遗传学、群体和进化遗传学; 模型系统遗传学，人类和哺乳动物遗传学，植物遗传学;和微生物和病毒 遗传学我们的教师培训学生在实验和定量/分析方法跨越一个 从微生物到植物再到人类的各种生物系统。这种智力上的多样性， 杜克的高度协作文化，创造了一个真正的跨学科培训环境。我们的UPGG 校友填充从传统的学术研究和教学， 工业/政府研究或监管事务，小型初创公司到大型制药公司。我们 目前的受训人员来自各种科学、文化和社会经济背景。这 不同的人群积极参加自己的培训，组织我们的一些签名 计划，如年度学生务虚会，杰出的系列讲座，和社区外展 努力额外的计划性产品，如我们的周二研讨会系列作为一个焦点 将整个遗传学和基因组学社区聚集在杜克。在未来几 在赠款期间，我们寻求利用UPGG的现有优势和成功，沿着， 开发新的方案和课程，支持知识和职业 培养我们的学员。我们的目标是利用遗传学和基因组学研究的背景 在杜克培养独立的科学家，他们在基础技术， 领导力和操作技能，使他们在一系列科学职业道路上茁壮成长。作为 作为我们关注学生培训的一部分，我们将制定机制，提高学生的指导技能。 我们的培训教师在学员的智力发展中发挥着关键作用。最后我们将 确保我们的培训环境继续是一个在其中我们所有的学生可以蓬勃发展。

The University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) has a nearly 40-year history of training graduate students at Duke University. The program has maintained its status over the years as an elite graduate training program by co-evolving with changes in experimental and analytical technologies, scientific culture, career development, and student demographics. Currently, the UPGG is a degree- granting program of approximately 50 students and 90 faculty with appointments in departments across the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, and Arts & Sciences. UPGG students have the opportunity to train in a broad range of fundamental research questions including chromosomes, nucleic acids, and gene expression; developmental genetics, population and evolutionary genetics; model systems genetics, human and mammalian genetics, plant genetics; and microbial and viral genetics. Our faculty train students in experimental and quantitative/analytical approaches across a variety of biological systems from microbes to plants to humans. This intellectual diversity, coupled with Duke’s highly collaborative culture, has created a truly interdisciplinary training environment. Our UPGG alumni populate a breadth of career paths from traditional academic research and teaching to industrial/government research or regulatory affairs, and small startup companies to big pharma. Our current trainees come from a variety of scientific, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This diverse population participates actively in their own training by organizing some of our signature programs, such as the annual student retreat, distinguished lecture series, and community outreach efforts. Additional programmatic offerings such as our Tuesday Seminar Series serve as a focal point for bringing together the entire Genetics and Genomics community together at Duke. In the coming grant period, we seek to leverage the current strengths and successes of the UPGG along with developing new programmatic and curricular offerings that support the intellectual and career development of our trainees. Our objective is to utilize the backdrop of genetics and genomics research at Duke to produce independent scientists who are well trained in the fundamental technical, leadership, and operational skills necessary for them to thrive in a range of scientific career paths. As part of our focus on student training, we will develop mechanisms for improving the mentoring skills of our training faculty who play a critical role in the intellectual development of our trainees. Finally, we will ensure that our training environment continues to be one in which all of our students can flourish.