Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

计划摘要 爱荷华大学遗传学跨学科研究生项目已有45年的培训历史 遗传学的博士生，在此期间有超过100名毕业生。该计划目前服务于71名教职员工 以及我们校园内四所学院和17个学院的43名学生。从上一次开始 竞争提交这份申请，我们的跨学科教员增加了4人，平均7人 每年都有新的学生进入这个项目。我们的计算遗传学子课程是第一批 在该国的计划，提供深入的博士培训在遗传学，基因组学和 生物信息学，现在已经有15名学生从子轨道毕业，其中4人已经在教职 各就各位。我们拥有令人羡慕的课程完成率、按时毕业率、出版物和 奖项，以及对博士后奖学金和研究密集型教师职位的职业晋升 大学。我们在使学生群体多样化方面不断取得进展，并纳入了 以少数族裔学生为核心的几项战略，以及加强对这些学生和 事实上，该项目中的所有学生都是。在此续期申请中，我们请求延续六名研究员的资格 我们目前有机会为我们的高素质和多产的学生干部提供服务。此应用程序 将概述我们在过去40年中计划存在的成功、我们目前的结构和计划 未来在多样性方面的改进，加强职业发展倡议，以实现就业的多功能性 作为学生和教职员工的导师。我们有一群有凝聚力的学生，他们的工作范围广泛而多样 代表遗传学社区所有方面的教职员工的集合。最后我们有了稳定的程序 教职员工和管理人员的领导力，以及研究生院内部和 帮助确保方案继续取得成功并进一步加强方案的机构 在科学事业被证明越来越具有挑战性的时候，实现多样化。

Program Summary The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa has a 45-year history of training PhD students in Genetics, with well over 100 graduates in that time. The program currently serves 71 faculty and 43 students in four colleges and 17 academic departments across our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application, our interdisciplinary faculty has grown by 4 with an average of 7 new students entering the program each year. Our Computational Genetics subtrack was one of the first programs in the country to offer in-depth PhD training at the interface between genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and 15 students have now graduated from the subtrack, four of which are already in faculty positions. We have an enviable record of program completion, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards, as well as career advancement to postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions at research-intensive universities. We have made continuing progress in diversifying our student population, and incorporated several strategies to build on a nucleus of minority students, as well as to enhance the retention of these and indeed all students in the program. In this renewal application we request a continuation of the six fellowship slots we currently have available to serve our cadre of high quality and productive students. This application will outline our successes over the last 40 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements in diversity, enhanced career development initiatives for versatility in employment, as well as student and faculty mentoring. We have a cohesive group of students working with a broad and diverse collection of faculty who represent the genetics community in all its facets. Finally we have stable program leadership at both the faculty and administrative level and very strong support within the graduate college and the institution that helps to ensure not only the continued success of the program but its further strengthening and diversification at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.