Predoctoral Training Program in Virology

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请申请支持耶鲁大学一个新的病毒学多部门博士前培训项目。耶鲁大学最近建立了一个新的微生物发病机制学术部门和一个新的微生物学博士项目，并招募了几位精力充沛的病毒学新教员。结合耶鲁大学在病毒学、遗传学、结构生物学和相关领域的现有优势，我们现在已经达到了维持一个活跃的病毒学博士培训项目的临界质量。这个项目的一大优势是它的教员，他们在病毒学的几乎每一个方面都提供了专业知识。许多教师都是杰出的研究者，有着杰出的研究成就和培训经验。该计划的目标是培养科学家，使他们能够在学术界，工业界和政府中开展独立，创新的研究事业。他们将接受有关病毒生长方法的教学和实验室培训，分析病毒生命周期和病毒蛋白，并描述病毒与宿主细胞之间的相互作用。申请9个名额的津贴和学费支持，足以支持每个班级3名新生三年。具有研究经验和高潜力的学员将通过生物医学和生物科学联合研究生课程被录取。已经制定了计划，招募少数族裔申请者参加这个培训项目。学员必须完成一系列要求，包括完成一年半的课程、轮岗研究、资格考试、教学要求、一门伦理学课程和论文研究。大多数学生将在五到六年内完成学业，并继续从事博士后研究工作。本课程的毕业生将非常适合开展病毒、病毒-细胞相互作用和病毒性疾病的基础和应用研究，并将为国家应对病毒作为生物恐怖主义武器的威胁做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a new multidepartmental predoctoral training program in virology at Yale University. Yale has recently established a new academic section of Microbial Pathogenesis and a new Ph.D. program in Microbiology, and several energetic new faculty members in virology have been recruited. In conjunction with existing strengths at Yale in virology, genetics, structural biology and related areas, we have now attained the critical mass to sustain a vigorous Ph.D. training program in virology. A great strength of this program is its faculty, which in aggregate provides expertise in virtually every aspect of virology. Many of the faculty are outstanding investigators with distinguished records of research accomplishments and training experience. The goal of this program is to train scientists so that they can carry out independent, innovative research careers in academia, industry, and government. They will receive didactic and laboratory training in methods of growing viruses, analyzing the virus life cycle and viral proteins, and characterizing the interactions between viruses and their host ceils. Stipend and tuition support is requested for nine slots, enough to support three entering students in each class for three years. Trainees with research experience and high potential will be admitted through the Combined Graduate Program in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences. Plans are in place to recruit minority applicants to this training program. Trainees must fulfill a variety of requirements including completion of one and one-half years of course work, research rotations, a qualifying examination, a teaching requirement, a course in ethics, and thesis research. Most students will complete their studies in five to six years and go on to postdoctoral research positions. Graduates of this program will be ideally suited to carryout basic and applied research on viruses, virus-cell interactions, and viral diseases, and will contribute to the nation's response to the threat of viruses as bioterrorist weapons.