NRT-ROL: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Phenotype: EXPANDing Training in Research and Careers

表型几乎是生命科学中每一个过程的中心，从疾病易感性和病原体毒性，到农业产量，到引进物种的入侵，到管理实践的可持续性。发现表型是如何建立并与环境相互作用的，是解决现实世界挑战的关键，这些挑战包括人类健康和疾病，粮食安全，以及面对人为对环境的影响时管理生物和生态多样性。21世纪的生命科学家需要超越传统的学科界限来改变对复杂特征的理解并解决这些问题。卫生保健、农业、保护、管理和数据科学领域的专业人员都需要新的综合培训，以摆脱传统研究竖井的局限思维。这项授予弗吉尼亚大学的国家科学基金会研究培训奖将通过新的跨规模研究生课程和对生命科学专业发展和职业准备的计划性关注来满足这些需求。该培训计划预计将为130多名学生提供独特的跨学科培训机会，其中包括30名受资助的学员，涵盖生物医学科学、生物学、心理学和环境科学等生命科学领域，发展一种明确的综合教育方法和一种拥抱多样性、创造创新和促进专业发展的文化。学员将垂直整合来自整个生命科学领域的思想和技术，并建立一个跨传统学科的合作网络，这将改变表型研究的方式。培训计划引入了一个新的研究生课程，将创新的跨规模研究培训与广泛的定量工具包的开发相结合。专业发展包括通过职业探索和实习为各种职业做好正式准备，以及沟通和定量技能，将贯穿研究生培训，培养能够应对广泛社会挑战的学员。该项目将通过从科学到科学家的包容性文化，包括招聘、指导和非学术和学术职业培训，增强生命科学领域的多样性。该项目将与弗吉尼亚大学职业服务中心和数据科学学院建立联系，并加强刚刚起步的博士+项目，从而在研究生培训方面实现持久的制度变革。项目创新将通过就业服务和研究生培训网络与其他机构共享。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。该项目致力于通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，在高优先级跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The phenotype is at the center of virtually every process in the life sciences, from disease susceptibility and pathogen virulence, to agricultural yield, to invasions of introduced species, to the sustainability of management practices. Discovering how the phenotype is built and interacts with the environment is a key to solving the real-world challenges that range from human health and disease, to food security, to managing biological and ecological diversity in the face of anthropogenic impacts on the environment. 21st century life scientists will need to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to transform the understanding of complex traits and solve these problems. Professionals in health care, agriculture, conservation, management and data science all require a new integrative training to move past the constrained thinking of traditional research silos. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to the University of Virginia will address these demands through a new cross-scale graduate curriculum and a programmatic focus on professional development and career preparation in the life sciences. The traineeship anticipates providing a unique interdisciplinary training opportunity to over 130 students, including 30 funded trainees, across the life sciences from Biomedical Sciences, to Biology, Psychology, and Environmental Sciences, developing an explicitly integrated approach to education and a culture that embraces diversity, creates innovation, and fosters professional development. Trainees will vertically integrate ideas and techniques from across the life sciences and generate a network of collaborations across traditional disciplines that will transform the way that the phenotype is investigated. The training program introduces a new graduate curriculum that combines innovative cross-scale research training with development of a broad quantitative toolkit. Professional development that includes formal preparation for a diverse range of careers through career exploration and internships, as well as communication and quantitative skills, will be woven throughout graduate training to produce trainees that contribute to a broad range of societal challenges. The program will enhance diversity in the life sciences through a culture of inclusivity that runs from science to scientist including recruiting, mentoring, and training for both non-academic and academic careers. The program will develop connections with UVA Career Services and the School for Data Sciences and enhance the fledgling PhD+ program, leading to lasting institutional change in graduate training. Program innovations will be shared with other institutions through career services and graduate training networks. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.