Graduate Training in Molecular Biology and Biophysics

描述（由申请人提供）：俄勒冈大学正在进行的分子生物学和生物物理学研究生研究培训项目需要继续支持。这项培训活动以分子生物学研究所为中心，也涉及其他具有相关科学兴趣的小组。该项目包括约50名研究生、46名博士后培训生和19名培训教员，共申请12个博士预科职位。该计划特别强调基因表达和核酸结构/功能的控制，信号和细胞功能的分子基础，蛋白质结构和动力学，以及分子方法的发展和分化。培训的基本方面是在分子生物学和生物物理学培训计划的教员的指导下进行实验室研究。通过这些经验，学员们能够熟练地提出有关基本生物过程的问题，并设计实验来回答这些问题。通过生物系、化学系和物理系提供的正式课程，通过强调分子生物学、生物物理学和相关学科的最新研究的研讨会项目，论文咨询委员会的密切参与，以及研究研讨会和学员在期刊俱乐部的演讲，加强了培训。培训设施包括教师实验室和支持服务，如结构生物学设施，最先进的基因组学和蛋白质组学设施，生物物理化学设备设施，介质制备设施，电子，共聚焦和双光子显微镜设施，以及多克隆/单克隆抗体设施。主要设备是共享的，并安置在公共空间。大多数学院的实验室是毗连的，并且在相互连接的建筑中。这种安排促进了教师和学生之间的互动和合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for an ongoing program of graduate research training in molecular biology and biophysics at the University of Oregon. This training activity is centered in the Institute of Molecular Biology, and also involves additional groups with related scientific interests. Funds are requested for 12 predoctoral positions, within a program that includes approximately 50 graduate students, 46 postdoctoral trainees, and 19 training faculty. The program places special emphasis on the control of gene expression and nucleic acid structure/function, molecular basis of signaling and cell function, protein structure and dynamics, and molecular approaches to development and differentiation. The basic aspect of the training is laboratory research carried out under the direction of a faculty member in the molecular biology and biophysics training program. Through this experience, the trainee becomes skilled at posing questions about fundamental biological processes and designing experiments to answer those questions. The training is augmented by formal courses offered by the Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments, by seminar programs that highlight current research in molecular biology, biophysics, and related disciplines, by the close involvement of a Thesis Advisory Committee, and by research seminar and journal club presentations by trainees. The training facilities include the laboratories of the faculty and support services such as the structural biology facility, the state of the art genomics and proteomics facilities, biophysical chemistry equipment facility, the media preparation facility, an electron, confocal and 2-photon microscope facility, and a polyclonal/monoclonal antibody facility. Major equipment is shared and housed in common space. The laboratories of most of the faculty are contiguous and in interconnected buildings. This arrangement fosters interactions and collaborations among faculty and students.