Mol. & Cell Bio. & Biochemistry and Structural Bio. Graduate Training Programs

描述（由申请人提供）：分子，细胞和结构生物学（MCSB）培训计划的目标是为博士生提供成为熟练的实验员，有效的沟通者和创造性思想家的知识。该培训计划提供了一个多学科的学习课程，可以获得博士学位，并为学生提供了两个课程选择的机会：分子和细胞生物学或生物化学和结构生物学。在分子和细胞生物学课程中，学生还可以专攻生物化学和分子生物学、发育生物学或免疫学和病理学。在第一年，学生将学习四门核心课程中的三门：生物化学、分子遗传学、细胞生物学和结构生物学。学生们最初也接受训练，批判性地评估和在期刊俱乐部发表原创研究文章，而在随后的几年里，他们口头展示自己的研究。学生通过在大一下学期和大二上学期担任本科生助教，获得了宝贵的教学见解。贯穿第一学年的实验室培训经验，或轮转，有助于学生在第一学年结束时为他/她的论文研究选择导师。三个学期后，学生必须通过书面资格考试，然后准备一份关于他们预期研究项目的提案，并在教师委员会面前为该提案辩护。在成功的提案答辩之后，学生进入候选资格，教师论文委员会每年监督学生的进展，直到成功完成项目和书面博士论文答辩。此外，学生们每年在研讨会论坛上向其他研究生、博士后和教职员工报告他们的研究进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the Molecular, Cellular and Structural Biology (MCSB) training program is to provide predoctoral students with the knowledge to become skilled experimentalists, effective communicators, and creative thinkers. The training program offers a multidisciplinary course of study leading to the Ph.D. degree and provides students with the opportunity to select one of two programs: Molecular and Cellular Biology or Biochemistry and Structural Biology. Within the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program students additionally specialize either in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, or Developmental Biology, or Immunology and Pathology. During the first year students enroll in three out of four core courses, Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology and Structural Biology. Students also initially receive training to critically evaluate and present original research articles in Journal Club, while in subsequent years they orally present their own research. Students gain valuable insights into teaching by serving as teaching assistants for undergraduate classes in the second semester of the first year and the first semester of the second year. Laboratory training experiences, or rotations, which continue throughout their first academic year help the student to select a mentor for his/her thesis research at the end of the first year. After three semesters the students are required to pass a written qualifying exam followed by the preparation of a proposal on their intended research project and the defense of this proposal before a faculty committee. Following successful defense of the proposal, students advance to candidacy and the faculty thesis committee annually monitors the students' progress until successful completion of the project and defense of a written doctoral thesis. In addition, the students present yearly reports on their research progress in a seminar forum to other graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. The MCSB training program crosses departmental and institutional boundaries to offer thesis research training in 72 different mentored laboratories at three institutions: Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. There are currently 146 students in the program with approximately 25 admissions per year. The top four students in their second and third years will be selected by the Executive Committee as NIH predoctoral trainees on the basis of their first year performance also taking into account their undergraduate achievements.