Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition

描述（由申请人提供）： 分子和生化营养学的跨学科课程将为博士前候选人提供分子和生化代谢研究的概念，技术和实施方面的培训。该培训计划旨在培养独立和原创性思维，并为研究，教学和专业服务的奖学金和技能的发展提供支持。该计划旨在吸引和培养来自社会各界的合格候选人，并将强调营养物质和植物化学物质的代谢，代谢调节以及作为人类模型的人类和哺乳动物的营养和植物化学作用机制。计划教师非常适合通过他们在生物化学，分子生物学，分析生物化学，细胞生物学，临床研究和基因组学技术的多学科专业知识进行这项培训使命;并通过他们资金充足的研究计划，研究代谢问题，重点是人体代谢，代谢相关疾病以及营养和植物化学作用机制。此外，自然资源学院和加州农业和自然资源部已承诺提供大量资金，以建立一个营养基因组学中心（包括基因组学和生物信息学设施）。这项工作由营养科学和毒理学系的成员领导，该培训计划的“家庭基地”，并提供令人兴奋的新培训机会。在分子和生物化学营养跨部门，跨学科的培训计划是伯克利分校的独特之处：它是唯一致力于在高等脊椎动物代谢生物化学/分子生物学的程序。因此，该计划的性质，教师，资源和环境都为代谢研究中复杂的跨学科培训提供了丰富和独特的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The interdisciplinary program in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition will provide training for pre-doctoral candidates in the concepts, techniques and implementation of molecular and biochemical metabolic studies. This training program aims to cultivate independent and original thinking, and to provide for development of scholarship and skills in research, teaching and professional service. The program is designed to attract and nurture qualified candidates from all sections of society, and will emphasize the metabolism of nutrients and phytochemicals, metabolic regulation, and the mechanisms of nutrient and phytochemical actions in humans and mammals that serve as human models. Program faculty are well suited for this training mission through their multidisciplinary expertise in the techniques of biochemistry, molecular biology, analytical biochemistry, cell biology, clinical studies, and genomics; and through their well-funded research programs that study metabolic problems focused on human metabolism, metabolism-related diseases, and mechanisms of nutrient and phytochemical action. In addition, the College of Natural Resources and the California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources have committed substantial funds to develop a Center for Nutritional Genomics (which includes genomics and bioinformatics facilities). This effort is led by members of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, the "home-base" for this training program, and offers exciting new training opportunities. The interdepartmental, interdisciplinary training program in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition is distinctive on the Berkeley campus: it is the only program devoted to metabolic biochemistry/molecular biology in higher vertebrates. Thus, the nature of the program, the faculty, the resources, and the environment all offer fertile and unique opportunities for sophisticated interdisciplinary training in metabolic studies.