CSHL Watson School of Biological Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案旨在设立细胞、生化和分子科学的国家研究服务奖，以培养6名在冷泉港实验室沃森生物科学学院攻读博士学位的博士前学生。沃森学院提供广泛的生物科学培训，包括遗传学、细胞和分子生物学、生物化学和生物物理学、结构生物学、发育生物学、癌症、神经科学、病毒学、蛋白质化学、细胞周期调控、植物遗传学、电生理学、行为学、成像、生物信息学和基因组学。该学院设计了创新的博士课程，以培养未来生物科学的领导者。我们创新的博士课程包括以下主要特点：(I)从预科到博士的大约四年，(Ii)生物科学的广泛代表性，(Iii)课程工作和实验室在不同阶段轮换的第一年，(Iv)强调科学推理和逻辑的原则以及伦理和有效沟通的重要性，(V)在整个研究生课程中继续高级课程指导，(Vi)主要通过我们的“两级”指导计划提供广泛的指导和支持。该学院为实现其目标而开发的博士课程强度很大，专为对研究生教育有深切承诺的学生而设计。到目前为止，已经有两个毕业班，每个班级都授予了六个博士学位。总体而言，12名毕业生获得学位的平均时间为4.25年，其中4名毕业生在不到4年的时间内完成了博士学业。尽管我们仍然是一所非常年轻的学校，但我们相信，我们学员的科研成就是杰出的，他们的出版物的质量和数量、他们获得的奖项和奖学金以及他们毕业后的安置都证明了这一点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is for a National Research Service Award in Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences to train six predoctoral students for the Ph.D. degree at the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The Watson School provides broad training in the biological sciences including genetics, cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics, structural biology, developmental biology, cancer, neuroscience, virology, protein chemistry, cell cycle regulation, plant genetics, electrophysiology, behavior, imaging, bioinformatics, and genomics. The School has designed an innovative Ph.D. curriculum to train future leaders in the biological sciences. Our innovative doctoral program includes the following key features: (i) approximately four years from matriculation to Ph.D., (ii) a broad representation of the biological sciences, (iii) a first year with course work and laboratory rotations in separate phases, (iv) emphasis on the principles of scientific reasoning and logic as well as the importance of ethics and effective communication, (v) continued advanced course instruction throughout the graduate curriculum, (vi) extensive mentoring and support in large part through our "two-tier" mentoring program. The doctoral program that the School has developed to meet its goals is intense and is designed for students with a deep commitment to their graduate education. There have been two graduating classes thus far where six doctoral degrees were awarded in each case. Overall for the twelve graduates the average time to degree was 4.25 years, with four of the graduates completing their doctoral studies in less than four years. Although we are still a very young School we believe that the scientific research achievements of our trainees have been outstanding, as evidenced by the quality and number of their publications the Awards and Fellowships they have obtained and their post graduation placements.