Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition

描述(由申请人提供)： 分子和生化营养学的跨学科计划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的思维，并在研究、教学和专业服务方面提供学术和技能的发展。该计划旨在吸引和培养来自社会各阶层的合格候选人，并将强调营养物质和植物化学物质的新陈代谢，代谢调节，以及作为人体模型的人类和哺乳动物的营养和植物化学作用机制。项目教员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方面的多学科专业知识，以及他们资金充足的研究项目，研究侧重于人类新陈代谢、新陈代谢相关疾病以及营养和植物化学作用机制的代谢问题，非常适合这项培训任务。此外，自然资源学院和加州农业和自然资源司承诺提供大量资金，以发展营养基因组学中心(包括基因组学和生物信息学设施)。这项工作是由营养科学和毒理学系的成员领导的，营养科学和毒理学系是这个培训计划的“大本营”，并提供了令人兴奋的新培训机会。分子和生化营养学的跨部门、跨学科培训计划在伯克利校区是独一无二的：它是唯一致力于高等脊椎动物代谢生物化学/分子生物学的计划。因此，该项目的性质、师资、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而独特的机会。

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.