BASIC IMMUNOLOGY

描述（由申请人提供）：近40年来，杜克大学一直是国际公认的杰出的免疫学研究和培训。杜克大学的免疫学家和他们的学员对基础和临床免疫生物学做出了重大贡献。为了延续这一卓越的传统并保持其增长，拟议中的杜克大学基础免疫学培训计划将提供基础免疫学的优秀博士前和博士后培训，通过提供一流科学所需的知识框架和研究技能来培养年轻的研究人员。拟议的培训学院由27名免疫学家组成，他们在免疫学系担任初级或二级职务。选拔委员会（SC）将从接受杜克免疫学研究生课程的学生中选择优秀的博士前实习生。这些能力很强的学生将进入一个研究生课程的基础上精心挑选的核心课程，提供了基础免疫学，细胞和分子生物学，遗传学的精湛接地。培训计划的研究生将获得两年的支持，直到他们被录取为博士候选人并开始论文研究。博士后申请人也将由SC从培训计划或拟议培训学院的个人成员中选择。博士后研究员可以进行教学培训，以增加他们的免疫学研究的准备，并将参加伦理培训和计划研讨会。对于研究生和研究生学员，拟议的培训计划将强调实验策略和设计，数据分析和解释，主要文献的理解和知识，以及研究结果的交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For almost 40 years, Duke University has been internationally recognized for outstanding immunological research and training. Duke immunologists and their trainees have made significant contributions to basic and clinical immunobiology. To continue this tradition of excellence and sustain its growth, the proposed Duke University Training Program in Basic Immunology will provide outstanding pre- and postdoctoral training in fundamental immunology, preparing young investigators by providing the intellectual framework and research skills necessary for first-rate science. The proposed Training Faculty is comprised of 27 immunologists who hold primary or secondary appointments in the Department of Immunology. A selections committee (SC) will choose outstanding predoctoral trainees from the students accepted into the Duke Graduate Program in Immunology. These highly capable students will enter a graduate program based on a carefully chosen core curriculum that provides superb grounding in basic immunology, cell and molecular biology, and genetics. Graduate students in the Training Program will be supported for two years, until their admission to doctoral candidacy and the initiation of dissertation research. Postdoctoral applicants will also be selected by the SC from applications to the Training Program or to individual members of the proposed Training Faculty. Postdoctoral fellows may undertake didactic training to augment their preparation for immunological research and will participate in ethics training and Program seminars. For both graduate and postgraduate trainees, the proposed Training Program will stress experimental strategy and design, analysis and interpretation of data, understanding and knowledge of the primary literature, and communication of research findings.