Graduate Training in Developmental Biology

这是对加州大学发育生物学博士前培训项目的一次竞争性更新 宾夕法尼亚州。培训计划是发育生物学的一个熔点和凝聚点，因为它 包括分布在大学内四个学院的培训员，以及来自8个研究生群体的学生。这个 培训计划也是研究生培训新举措的孵化器，这些举措将继续 由研究生团体改编。该计划继续利用异常强大的程序性 宾夕法尼亚大学发育生物学基金会。培训计划的目标是提供 基础广泛的培训，使用最先进的技术来实现 利用脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和植物有机体的多样性的发育生物学。研究训练领域 包括控制细胞分化、迁移、器官发生、细胞 衰老、形态发生、模式形成、发育过程的表观遗传调控和茎 细胞生物学。受训者接受既定学习课程的正式指导，包括讲座课程。 在发育生物学和关于遗传、细胞和分子方法的高级研讨会上 发育机制和疾病。学生还参加发育生物学期刊俱乐部，一个 发育生物学系列研讨会，包括学生特邀演讲者，研究讨论小组 选定的主题，并在年度科学研讨会上。学员在部门介绍他们的研究成果 研讨会、地方座谈会和国家会议。最后，培训计划为受训者提供具体的 活动：a)每年举办一次专题讨论会，在更正式的环境中介绍他们的工作，其中包括一位著名的 评估培训计划的外部发言者；b)职业发展活动，如职业发展 在科学会议上与受邀的演讲者讨论职业选择；为毕业生量身定做的迷你写作课程 学生深入讲授助学金和手稿写作；开设实验设计和培训的小型课程 与沟通专业人员举行会议；c)展示和讲述受训人员向其他人讲课的研究日 受训人员介绍他们的项目，然后亲身演示 实习生演讲者，例如活细胞成像，d)午餐时间与宾夕法尼亚大学的教职员工讨论实习生选择的 了解教员的研究领域和/或讨论实验室管理或职业道路决定，e)一天 长期访问一家制药公司，探索在该领域工作的不同方面。建议数 培训计划每年要求8名学员。受训人员将由一个特别的培训人员委员会每年挑选， 并任命一年，可选择第二年，直至取得令人满意的进展。培训成果 将通过衡量学员出版物、过渡到个人培训奖项、学员 调查是一种外部评价，所有这些都将由执行委员会审查。最后，培训师 参与一些努力，在地方和全国范围内招募代表性不足的少数群体。

This is a competitive renewal for a predoctoral Training Program in developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Training Program serves as a melting and cohesion point in developmental biology as it includes trainers spread across four schools within the University, and students from 8 graduate groups. The Training Program also serves as an incubator for new initiatives in graduate training that continue to be adapted by graduate groups. The program continues to take advantage of an exceptionally strong programmatic foundation in developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Training Program’s goal is to provide broad-based training that uses state of the art technologies towards the fundamental mechanisms of developmental biology using a diversity of vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant organisms. Research training areas include transcription and cell signaling that control cell differentiation, migration, organogenesis, cellular senescence, morphogenesis, pattern formation, epigenetic regulation of developmental processes, and stem cell biology. Trainees receive formal instruction in an established curriculum of study, including lecture courses in developmental biology and advanced seminars on genetic, cellular, and molecular approaches to developmental mechanisms and disease. Students also participate in developmental biology journal clubs, a developmental biology seminar series that includes student invited speakers, research discussion groups on selected topics, and in annual scientific symposia. Trainees present their research findings at departmental seminars, local symposia and national conferences. Finally, the training program provides trainee specific activities: a) a yearly symposium to present their work in a more formal setting that includes an eminent external speaker who evaluates the training program; b) Professional development activities, such as careers in science meetings with invited speakers to discuss career options; mini-writing classes tailored to graduate students covering in depth grant and manuscript writing; a mini courses in experimental design, and training sessions with communication professionals; c) Show and Tell research days where trainees lecture other trainees about their project followed by a hands-on demonstration of research techniques employed by the trainee presenter, e.g. live cell imaging, d) lunchtime discussion with a Penn faculty of the trainee’s choice to learn about the faculty’s field of research and/or to discuss lab management or career path decisions, e) a day long visit to a pharmaceutical company to explore different aspects of working in this sector. The proposed training program requests 8 trainees per year. Trainees will be selected annually by an ad hoc trainer committee, and appointed for one year with the option for a second year pending satisfactory progress. Training outcomes will be evaluated yearly by measuring trainee publications, transitions to individual training awards, trainee surveys, an external evaluation, which all will be reviewed by an Executive Committee. Lastly, Trainers participate in a number of efforts to recruit under-represented minorities both locally and nationally.