EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续支持芝加哥洛约拉大学斯特里奇医学院实验免疫学多学科培训计划的提案。13名资金充足的教师在淋巴细胞发育和活化，细胞转化，病毒免疫，粘膜免疫和免疫疾病的分子机制方面进行了积极的研究计划，这些研究计划来自微生物学和免疫学系;细胞生物学，神经生物学和解剖学;医学;外科学;和病理学;和肿瘤学研究所。凯瑟琳博士Knight教授兼微生物学和免疫学系主任，是一位备受推崇的分子免疫学家，拥有丰富的学术培训经验，她将担任培训项目主任。一个培训计划委员会和两名外部顾问将协助奈特博士。培训计划委员会将监督该计划，选择博士前和博士后学员，并审查学员的进展情况。外部顾问将提供一般性方案监督。博士预科生将主要从博士人才库中挑选。通过微生物学与免疫学系或分子生物学跨学科课程录取的研究生，他们已经完成了第一年或第二年的学习。学员将参加免疫学，微生物学，病毒学，生物化学，细胞生物学和分子遗传学的基础和高级主题的一系列教学课程，包括口头交流和科学写作课程。此外，他们将参加至少一个由培训计划教师讲授的免疫学课程专题。博士后培训生将在参与项目的教师的实验室接受培训。所有学员和项目教师预计将参加每周免疫学杂志俱乐部和研究研讨会，以及部门实验室会议。提议中包括一项征聘少数族裔和经济上任职人数不足的个人的战略。该计划的所有教师都致力于在研究和教学卓越。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for continued support for a multidisciplinary training program in Experimental Immunology at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. Thirteen well-funded faculty members with active research programs in molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte development and activation, cell transformation, viral immunity, mucosal immunity and immunologic disorders have been assembled from the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology; Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; Medicine; Surgery; and Pathology; and the Oncology Institute. Dr. Katherine L. Knight, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, is a highly regarded molecular immunologist with extensive academic training experience, and she will be the Training Program Director. A Training Program Committee and two outside consultants will assist Dr. Knight. The Training Program Committee will oversee the program, select predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees, and review the progress of the trainees. The outside consultants will provide general programmatic oversight. The predoctoral trainees will be primarily selected from the pool of Ph.D. graduate students matriculated through the Department of Microbiology & Immunology or the interdisciplinary Program in Molecular Biology after they have completed their first or second year of study. Trainees will take a series of didactic courses in basic and advanced topics in immunology, microbiology, virology, biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular genetics, including oral communication and scientific writing classes. In addition, they will take at least one Special Topics in Immunology course taught by the training program faculty. Postdoctoral trainees will receive their training in laboratories of the participating program faculty. All trainees and program faculty are expected to attend the weekly Immunology Journal Club and Research Seminar, as well as the Departmental Lab meeting. A strategy to recruit minority and economically underrepresented individuals is included in the proposal. All members of the program faculty are committed to excellence in both research and teaching.