TRAINING IN MECHANISMS OF PARASITISM

近几年来的科学和技术进步有助于扩大 寄生虫学、细菌致病学和免疫学领域。这些 各学科在科学上是相辅相成的，因为从 其中一种通常适用于其他人。然而，拥有专业知识的教职员工 在这些科目中，很少会被统一到一个单一的项目中。这所大学 已经积累了一批在这三个领域拥有专业知识的教职员工 这些教职员工之间的科学合作已经 范围很广。该培训补助金申请是一项计划的一部分 将这些协作研究工作协调成一个跨部门的 题为“寄生机制”的节目。参与的教职员工有 取自生物化学、内科、 微生物学和病理学以及 遗传学、免疫学和分子生物学。因此，研究专业知识 教职员工的比例是广泛的。每个参与的教职员工都有 在与寄生虫学有关的项目上帮助资助受训人员。在……里面 在许多情况下，这些项目将需要合作研究和 不同、互补的教职员工协同办学 专业领域。博士后和博士后实习生将参加 在培训计划中，包括课程、研讨会、杂志俱乐部和 每半年一次的研究日，旨在提供对以下方面的基本了解 寄生虫和细菌与它们的自然宿主相互作用。该计划 目标是协调和加强科学上的相互作用 参与寄生小组的教职员工和他们的实验室，并 向学员提供当前概念的实用知识，并 与寄生虫学、细菌发病机制和 免疫学。我们坚信，协调的科学研究 这三个学科之间的互动将最大限度地促进 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.