GRADUATE TRAINING IN GENETICS

描述（由申请人提供）：在遗传学的研究培训，建议在生物，化学和心理学系。资金要求9个博士前职位，在一个程序，其中包括约50名研究生和45名博士后实习生。20名培训教师参加。该计划特别强调三个研究领域：进化遗传学，分子遗传学和发育遗传学。培训的基本方面是在遗传学课程教员的指导下进行的实验室研究。通过这种经验，受训者能够熟练地提出有关基本遗传过程的问题，并设计实验来回答这些问题。该培训由生物学和化学系提供的正式课程以及突出遗传学和相关学科当前研究的研讨会课程进行增强。培训设施包括教师的实验室和支持服务，如最先进的基因组学和蛋白质组学设施，培养基制备，电子，共聚焦和2-光子显微镜设施，动物设施和多克隆/单克隆抗体设施。主要设备是共用的，存放在共用空间。大多数教师的实验室是连续的，并在相互连接的建筑物。这种安排促进了教师和学生之间的互动和合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research training in genetics is proposed in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology. Funds are requested for 9 predoctoral positions, within a program that includes approximately 50 graduate students and 45 postdoctoral trainees. 20 training faculty participate. The program places special emphasis on three research areas: evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, and developmental genetics. The basic aspect of the training is laboratory research carried out under the direction of a faculty member in the genetics program. Through this experience, the trainee becomes skilled at posing questions about fundamental genetic processes and designing experiments to answer those questions. The training is augmented by formal courses offered by the Biology and Chemistry Departments and by seminar programs that highlight current research in genetics and related disciplines. The training facilities include the laboratories of the faculty and support services such as state of the art genomics and proteomics facilities, media preparation, an electron, confocal and 2-photon microscope facility, an animal facility, and a polyclonal/monoclonal antibody facility. Major equipment is shared and housed in common space. The laboratories of most of the faculty are contiguous and in interconnected buildings. This arrangement fosters interactions and collaborations among faculty and students.