Molecular Biological Approaches to Endocrinology

目的和计划特点。这是一个成功培养了毕业生的培训项目 分子和细胞内分泌学、神经内分泌学和神经生物学领域的学生 过去的20年里。该项目的优势在于杰出的核心教师和异常丰富的研究 环境为加州大学圣地亚哥分校索尔克生物科学研究所提供了 和斯克里普斯研究所。这些教职员工的研究成果都得到了国际认可。 取得了很大的成就，并有长期的培养研究生的记录，这些研究生后来取得了很高的生产力 事业。到目前为止，我们有20名学生担任独立调查人员的学术职位 杰出的学术机构，7人是生物技术公司的研究人员，其他人目前在 他们的博士后培训期结束。这个项目是跨学科的，由加州大学圣迭戈分校的S老师参与。 医学院、加州大学圣迭戈分校生物系和加州大学圣迭戈分校 神经内分泌学、生理学、药理学及细胞和分子医学系 系统公司和索尔克研究所的多肽生物实验室参与其中。研究生学习 现代研究方法、概念和技术适用于分子生物学、细胞生物学 基因组学、遗传学和生物化学，已经获得了广泛的文献背景和 发现所需的这些领域的基础科学。正规课程，实验室实践经验，以及 与项目教师的密集互动也将为这一学科的教学做好准备。我们希望 被允许继续这项高成功的博士前试验资助，我们对此相当满意 很骄傲。 实习生：每年录取8名具有生物或化学学士学位的实习生 去读博士学位。他们是从约100名研究生项目的申请者中挑选出来的，他们的基础是 平均分，GRE分数，以及对教师和高级研究生的采访，充分尝试 吸引少数族裔学生。研究生将被引导到分子内分泌学的职业生涯， 监管神经内分泌学，或神经生物学和疾病，并鼓励发展创新技能， 回答、板凳科学、写作、教学、翻译研究和口头陈述。

Purpose and Program Characteristics. This is a training program that has successfully trained graduate students in the fields of molecular and cellular endocrinology, neuroendocrinology and neurobiology for the past 20 years. The strength of the program is the outstanding core faculty and the unusually rich research environment provided the the University of California, San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the Scripps Research Institute. The faculty are all internationally recognized for their research accomplishments and have long records of training graduate students who have gone on to very productive careers. Thus far, we have 20 students who have academic positions as independent investigators in outstanding academic institutions, and 7 who are investigators in biotech companies, with others currently at the end of their postdoctoral training period. This program is interdisciplinary, involving faculty from UCSD"s School of Medicine, UCSD Department of Biology and the UCSD's Department and Divions of Endocrinology, Physiology, Pharmacology, and Department of Cellular and Molecular medicine, Neural Systems and the Peptide Biology Laboratories at the Salk Institute participate. Graduate students learn modern research approaches, concepts and techniques applicable to molecular biology, cellular biology, genomics, genetics and biochemistry and have been acquiring the broad background of the literature and basic science of these fields required for discovery. Formal courses, hands-on laboratory experience, and intensive interaction with program faculty will also prepare trainess for teaching in this discipline. We hope to be permitted the opportunity to continue this high successful predoctoral trianing grant, of which we are quite proud. Trainees: Eight trainee students per year, with bachelor degrees in biology or chemistry will be admitted to the Ph.D. programs. They are selected from >~100 applicants to the graduate programs on the basis of point average, GRE scores, and interviews with faculty and advanced graduate students with full attempt to attract minority students. Graduate students will be directed towards careers in molecular endocrinology, regulation neuroendocrinology, or neurobiology and disease, and encouraged to develop skills in innovation, responses, bench science, writing, teaching translational research and oral presentation.