Training Program/Molecular/Cell/Developmental Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：UCSC分子，细胞和发育生物学研究生培训计划提供了现代生物学杰出研究所需技能的强化培训。 第一年的学员进行课程强调科学模型，实验方法和结果的批判性评价，他们还参加了三个为期十周的实验室轮换。 二年级学生参加口头资格考试，高级学生参加各种研讨会，高级专题课程和研究小组会议，旨在提供继续学习的机会。 培训计划的目标是，在5至6年的时间内，培养在论文研究的特定领域具有坚实基础的毕业生，以及在分子，细胞和发育生物学方面的广泛培训和知识。 该计划由咨询和招生委员会根据我们的研究生手册和教师指南中规定的政策指导方针进行管理。该培训计划由MCD生物学系的15名成员和10名附属教师组成。 大部分教师都住在Sinsheimer实验室，其他教师计划搬到Sinsheimer实验室附近正在建造的新大楼。 MCD培训计划为研究生培训提供了一个互动和协作的研究环境。 培训计划中的研究利用了各种各样的方法和模式生物，并组织为具有共同兴趣的教师集群，从而创造了大量的研究人员，以促进相互支持和科学互动。 RNA分子生物学中心所包含的一个这样的集群是国际公认的RNA研究。 其他研究集群的重点包括发育生物学，细胞生物学，结构生物学和基因表达。 因此，MCD生物学培训计划的学生将接触到各种不同的实验问题和系统。在NIH培训支持的前四年中，我们招募和培训了许多学生，他们将成为任何培训项目中最好的学生。 我们要求在此更新，这将被授予我们最好的学生共8个博士前实习生职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UCSC graduate training program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology provides intensive training in the skills necessary for outstanding research in modern biology. First year trainees undertake coursework emphasizing critical evaluation of scientific models, experimental approaches, and results, and they also participate in three ten-week laboratory rotations. Second-year students take an oral qualifying exam, and advanced students participate in a variety of seminars, advanced special topics courses, and research group meetings designed to provide continuing learning opportunities. The goal of the training program is, over a period of 5 to 6 years, to produce graduates who have a strong foundation in the specific area of their thesis research, as well as broad training and knowledge in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. The program is administered by Advising and Admissions Committees according to policy guidelines stated in our Graduate Handbook and Faculty Guidelines. The training program is composed of 15 members of the Department of MCD Biology, and 10 affiliated faculty. The majority of the faculty is housed in the Sinsheimer Laboratories, with other faculty members scheduled to move to a new building being constructed adjacent to Sinsheimer Labs. The MCD training program provides an interactive and collaborative research environment for graduate training. Research in the training program utilizes a wide variety of approaches and model organisms, and is organized as clusters of faculty with shared interests, thereby creating critical masses of researchers to foster mutual support and scientific interaction. One such cluster, encompassed by the Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA, is internationally recognized for the study of RNA. The focus of the other research clusters include developmental biology, cell biology, structural biology, and gene expression. Students in the MCD Biology training program are therefore exposed to a wide range of different experimental problems and systems. During the first four years of NIH training support we have recruited and trained a number of students who would be amongst the best students in any training program. We are requesting a total of 8 predoctoral trainee positions in this renewal, which will be awarded to our best students.