TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: EMPHASIS ON PROTEIN CHEMISTRY

这份申请是为了续签1989年首次授予华盛顿州立大学的生物技术培训补助金，这是美国国立卫生研究院资助的博士前项目的第一年。这笔赠款是在1994年竞争性续期的，我们现在申请下一个5年期。自从我们上一次更新以来，我们培训教师的突出地位被包括两次国家科学院选举在内的荣誉所突显，我们的学员已经开创了一种成就模式。我们的跨学科项目主要强调蛋白质化学，这是西苏里州立大学的一个重要领域，也是生物技术的核心重要性。来自四所学院(农业、工程、科学和兽医)六个学位授予单位的二十名教员在这一领域提供深度和广度，并将作为实习生研究的导师。受训者参加核心培训，包括实验室轮换、课程、研讨会、期刊俱乐部、工业实习和生物技术研讨会。特别值得注意的是一门创新的生物技术课程，该课程围绕学生团体开发生物技术提案而组织，利用实验室轮换来建立跨学科联系，以及一个受到热烈欢迎的实习计划。该计划在生物化学/生物物理学、化学工程、遗传学和细胞生物学、微生物学、植物生理学和兽医微生物学和病理学的学位课程选择上具有很大的灵活性。每年将有五名新学员参加该项目。头两年的薪金支助将由机构资金补充的培训补助金基金提供，随后几年的薪金支助将由机构基金提供，随后几年的薪金支助将由教员可用资金提供。在任何时候，都会有大约30名学生参与培训。该机构坚定地致力于培训计划，并继续提供资金支持。培训教师在竞争激烈的研究资金和培养多产和杰出的科学家和工程师方面有着良好的记录。在最初的几年里，我们招收了一批不同的高素质学生，其中包括相当数量的妇女和少数族裔。毕业的实习生担任了竞争激烈的博士后研究人员，随后在生物技术领域获得了长期职位。该计划提供与生物技术相关的最先进的基础科学培训和生物技术应用方面的教育，重点都是蛋白质化学，从而培养出具有良好跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，有资格满足生物技术的主要需求。

This application is for renewal of the Biotechnology Training Grant first awarded to Washington State University in 1989, the first year of the NIH-funded Predoctoral Program. The grant was competitively renewed in 1994 and we now apply for the next 5-year period. Since our previous renewal, the prominence of our training faculty has been highlighted by honors including two elections to the National Academy of Sciences and our trainees have initiated a pattern of achievement. Our cross- disciplinary program has a major emphasis on protein chemistry, an area of prominence at WSU and of central importance to biotechnology. Twenty- fix faculty from six degree-grant units in four Colleges (Agriculture, Engineering, Sciences and Veterinary Medicine) provide depth and breadth in this area and will serve as preceptors for trainee research. Trainees participate in a core of training involving laboratory rotations, courses, seminars, journal clubs, industrial internships and biotechnology symposia. Of particular note are an innovate biotechnology course organized around development of biotechnology proposals by groups of students, the use of laboratory rotations to establish interdisciplinary contact and an enthusiastically received internship program. The program has significant flexibility in options for degree programs among Biochemistry/Biophysics, Chemical Engineering, Genetics and Cell Biology, Microbiology, Plant Physiology, and Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology. Each year five new trainees will enter the program. Salary support will be provided for the first two years by Training Grant funds supplemented by institutional funds and for subsequent years by institutional funds and for subsequent years by funds available to preceptors. At any one time, approximately 30 students will be involved in training. The institution is strongly committed to the training program and continues to provide financial support. The training faculty has a strong record of competitive research funding and of training productive and prominent scientists and engineers. In the initial none years, we have enrolled a diverse group of high quality students including a significant number of women and minorities. Graduated trainees have taken competitive positions as postdoctoral researchers and subsequently long-term positions in biotechnology. The program provides state-of-the-art training in basic science relevant to biotechnology and an education in the applied aspects of biotechnology, both with an emphasis on protein chemistry, and thus produces scientists and engineers with sound interdisciplinary backgrounds, qualified to meet major needs of biotechnology.