IGERT: Integrative Training in Ecology, Conservation and Pathogen Biology

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校（UH Manoa）的六个学术部门和三个研究所和校区之间建立生态学，保护和病原体生物学的研究生教育和研究项目。该计划的目的是为博士生提供跨学科的培训，培养他们在生物医学和生态科学的界面进行研究所需的技能。首要的研究主题是提高对新出现的传染病的理解，它们是如何起源和传播的，它们对人类、家养动物、自然生态系统及其生物多样性的影响。该计划建立在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校独特的科学家、研究项目和学术课程的基础上。培训将从学生沉浸在一个独特的15周强化实验室和实地研究经验开始，利用夏威夷热带森林和珊瑚生态系统作为室外教室和实验室。学生将使用最先进的设备和设施进行研究，研究宿主-病原体关系的生态和进化动力学，发病机制中涉及的分子和细胞过程，以及人为环境变化在新发和再发传染病中的作用。每个学生将有两位导师指导他/她的博士生涯，一位是进化生态科学家，一位是生物医学科学家或寄生虫学家。除了他们的研究经验，学生将接受持续的培训，包括两年一次的研讨会，一个建立跨学科合作研究技能的小组项目，以及一个学生帮助组织和运行并参与的年度国际研讨会。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishes a program of graduate education and research in Ecology, Conservation, and Pathogen Biology involving collaboration across six academic departments and three institutes and campuses of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa). The purpose of this program is to provide doctoral students with interdisciplinary training in the skills required for conducting research at the interface of the biomedical and ecological sciences. The over-arching research theme is to improve the understanding of emerging infectious diseases, how they originate and spread, their impact on humans, domesticated animals, and on natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. The program builds on the unique collection of scientists, research projects and academic programs that exist at UH Manoa. Training will commence with students immersion in a unique 15-week intensive lab and field research experience that takes advantage of Hawaiis tropical forest and coral ecosystems as the outdoor classroom and laboratory. Students will conduct research using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for carrying out research on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of host-pathogen relationships, the molecular and cellular processes involved in pathogenesis, and the role of anthropogenic environmental change in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Each student will have two mentors for his/her doctoral career during the program, an evolutionary ecological scientist and a biomedical scientist or parasitologist. In addition to their research experiences, students will receive continuing training including biannual workshops, a group project to build interdisciplinary collaborative research skills, and an annual international symposium which the students help organize and run in addition to particiipating. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.