TRAINING IN MECHANISMS OF PARASITISM

近年来的科学和技术进步有助于扩大 寄生虫学、细菌致病机理和免疫学领域。 这些 学科在科学上是互补的， 一个往往适用于其他人。 然而，拥有专业知识的教师 在这些科目中，很少有统一成一个单一的程序。 大学 爱荷华州已经积累了核心的教师与专业知识，在这三个 这些教师之间的科学合作已经 广泛。 这项培训补助金申请是计划的一部分， 协调这些合作研究工作， 题为“寄生机制”的方案。 参与的教师是 来自生物化学，内科， 微生物学和病理学以及跨学科博士学位。节目 遗传学、免疫学和分子生物学。因此， 教师是广泛的。 每一位参与的教师都有 为赞助寄生虫病相关项目的受训人员作出了贡献。 在 在许多情况下，这些项目需要合作研究， 协调主办的教师与不同的和互补的 专业领域。博士前和博士后学员将参加 在一个培训计划，包括课程，研讨会，杂志俱乐部和 每半年一次的研究日，旨在提供一个基本的了解， 寄生虫和细菌与它们的自然宿主相互作用。 程序 目标是协调和加强科学之间的相互作用 参与教师和他们的实验室在寄生虫组，并 为学员提供当前概念的工作知识， 与寄生虫学、细菌致病机理和 免疫学 我们坚信，协调的科学 这三个学科之间的相互作用将最好地促进 我们对寄生机制的理解

Scientific and technical-advances over recent years have served to expand the fields of parasitology, bacterial pathogenesis, and immunology. These disciplines are scientifically complementary in that lessons learned from one are often applicable to the others. However, faculty with expertise in these subjects are rarely united into a single program. The University of Iowa has accumulated cores of faculty with expertise in these three areas, and scientific collaborations between these faculty are already extensive. This training grant application is part of a plan to coordinate these collaborative research efforts into an interdepartmental program entitled "Mechanisms of Parasitism". Participating faculty are drawn from the Departments of Biochemistry, Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Pathology and from Interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in Genetics, Immunology, and Molecular Biology. Thus the research expertise of the faculty is broad. Each participating faculty member has contributed to sponsoring trainees on projects related to parasitism. In many cases these projects will require collaborative research and coordinated sponsoring by faculty members with different and complementary areas of expertise. Predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will participate in a training plan including coursework, seminars, journal clubs and a semi-annual Research Day, designed to provide a basic understanding of how parasites and bacteria interact with their natural hosts. The program goals are to coordinate and enhance the scientific interactions between participating faculty and their labs in the Parasitism Group, and to provide trainees with a working knowledge of current concepts and techniques relevant to parasitology, bacterial pathogenesis and immunology. It is our firm belief that coordinated scientific interactions between these three disciplines will best serve to advance our understanding of the mechanisms of parasitism.