MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY TRAINING GRANT

描述（由申请人提供）：U.T.位于达拉斯的西南医学中心要求继续支持研究生和研究生分子微生物学培训计划（MMTP）。该MMTP的一个特别有吸引力的特点是它从传统的计划或部门为基础的培训，以保持微生物学方向的跨学科计划，而在同一时间，扩大了培训使命的范围，包括许多其他方面的分子和细胞生物学。“23名培训师的不同背景，包括一个核心小组的既定研究人员完成的记录和不断扩大的新教师，代表了跨学科的研究计划由分子和细胞微生物学的共同主题的约束。培训教师来自八个不同的医学院系。总体目标是培养学生和博士后研究员在微生物发病机制，细胞微生物学，宿主防御机制，疫苗开发和结构生物学的分子基础上的研究事业。MMTP要求资助6名博士前（博士）。或医学博士/博士）和3个博士后职位（博士）。或医学博士）每年.总的来说，对博士学位的活动。学位包括（1）通过定制的，灵活的培训轨道课程工作，（2）出席和参加研讨会和期刊俱乐部，（3）在书面资格考试的成绩，（4）在MMTP研究论坛的年度出席，以及（5）密集的研究培训最终在博士论文答辩。博士后研究员（Ph.D.或医学博士）将有机会巩固基本技能，发展科学思维和研究规划的独立性，并学习基础科学探究或技术的新领域。研究员还将参与教授研究生，介绍期刊俱乐部和研究研讨会，并为推动科学进步的一般“发酵”做出贡献。我们希望完成该计划的学员能够熟练应用微生物学，生物化学，分子遗传学，基因阵列，生物信息学，结构生物学，细胞生物学和免疫学的当代方法，以解决微生物科学中的重要问题，并改善预防和治疗干预策略。MMTP目前只有四年的历史，但已经有证据表明取得了巨大的成功。将继续作出特别努力，征聘任职人数不足的少数族裔，这种努力已经取得成功。德州大学西南医学中心提供了一个优秀的研究环境，继续在分子微生物学这一进步，当代的培训计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): U.T. Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas requests continued support for a graduate and post-graduate Molecular Microbiology Training Program (MMTP). A particularly attractive feature of this MMTP is its departure from conventional program- or departmental-based training to an interdisciplinary program that maintains a microbiology orientation while, at the same time, broadens the scope of the training mission to include many other aspects of molecular and cell biology. 'The diverse backgrounds of the 23 trainers, comprised of a core group of established investigators with accomplished records and an expanding new faculty, represent interdisciplinary research programs bound by the common theme of molecular and cellular microbiology. The training faculty emanate from eight different medical school departments. The overall objective is to train students and postdoctoral fellows for research careers in the molecular basis of microbial pathogenesis, cellular microbiology, host defense mechanisms, vaccine development, and structural biology. The MMTP requests funding for 6 pre-doctoral (Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.) and 3 post-doctoral positions (Ph.D. or M.D.) each year. In general, activities towards the Ph.D. degree include (1) course work via a customized, flexible training track, (2) attendance and participation in seminars and journal clubs, (3) achievement on written qualifying examinations, (4) annual attendance at a MMTP Research Forum, and (5) intensive research training culminating in the defense of a doctoral dissertation. Post-doctoral fellows (Ph.D. or M.D.) will be provided the opportunity to consolidate basic skills, develop independence in scientific thinking and research planning, and learn new areas of basic scientific inquiry or technology. Fellows also will be involved in teaching graduate students, presenting journal clubs and research seminars, and contributing to the general "ferment" that drives scientific progress. We expect trainees who complete this program to become skilled in applying contemporary approaches in microbiology, biochemistry, molecular genetics, gene arrays, bioinformatics, structural biology, cell biology, and immunology to important problems in the microbiological sciences and to the improvement of preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies. The MMTP currently is only four years old, but there already is evidence of substantial success. Special efforts for the recruitment of under-represented minorities, which already have been successful, will continue. U.T. Southwestern Medical Center offers an outstanding research environment in which to continue this progressive, contemporary training program in molecular microbiology.