Experimental Immunology Training Grant

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。从微生物与免疫学系招收了12名资金充足的教师，他们在淋巴细胞发育和活化的分子机制、细胞转化、病毒进入、粘膜免疫、疫苗开发和免疫紊乱等方面开展了积极的研究项目；细胞生物学、神经生物学和解剖学；医学;外科-烧伤-休克创伤；病理学;和肿瘤研究所。Katherine Knight博士，微生物与免疫学系教授兼系主任，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。培养计划委员会负责监督培养计划，选拔博士前、博士后培养人员，审查培养进度。外部顾问将提供一般的方案监督。博士预科生将主要从完成第一或第二学年学习后通过微生物与免疫学系或分子生物学跨学科项目录取的博士研究生中选拔。学员将在第一学期学习核心课程，包括分子生物化学、细胞生物学、系统生物学和生物医学研究方法。随后，他们将学习一系列的教学课程，包括免疫学课程和至少一门免疫学主题课程。学生应具备生物化学、细胞生物学、分子遗传学和免疫学方面的知识。重点是培养口头和书面沟通技巧。博士后学员将在参与项目的教师实验室接受培训。所有的受训者和项目教师都应该参加每周一次的免疫学杂志俱乐部和免疫学研讨会在微生物和免疫学系和肿瘤研究所。提案中包括一项招募少数民族和经济代表性不足的个人的战略。该计划的所有成员都致力于卓越的研究和教学。

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. Twelve well-funded faculty members with active research programs in molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte development and activation, cell transformation, virus entry, mucosal immunity, vaccine development and immunologic disorders have been assembled from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; Medicine; Surgery-Burn Shock Trauma; Pathology; and the Oncology Institute. Dr. Katherine 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 pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees, and review the progress of the trainees. The outside consultants will provide general programmatic oversight. The pre-doctoral 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 Core Curriculum during the 1st semester, comprised of courses in Molecular Biochemistry, Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, and Methods in Biomedical Research. Subsequently, they will take a series of didactic courses including an immunology course and a minimum of one Topics in Immunology course. Students are expected to become knowledgeable in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular genetics, as well as immunology. Strong emphasis is placed on developing both oral and written communication skills. Post-doctoral 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 Immunology Seminars in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and in the Oncology Institute. 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.