Virology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是威斯康星州大学重新提交的一份病毒学领域新培训补助金申请。对病毒的研究是科学领域的一个重要焦点。关于病毒的知识已经导致了许多关于基本细胞过程的基本见解，如复制，转录，翻译，肿瘤发生机制和宿主免疫。病毒是造成人类痛苦和死亡的重要病原体。在威斯康星州的大学，病毒学是研究的一个主要重点领域，有19个资金充足的病毒学教师研究各种各样的病毒，从感染植物和昆虫的病毒到导致人类癌症的病毒，以及引起埃博拉病毒和新流感病毒株等新兴疾病的病毒。15年前，随着麦迪逊病毒学项目的创建，麦迪逊开始努力开发一个综合病毒学培训项目。这一新的培训补助金申请反映了我们的共同目标，进一步发展一个优秀的培训计划，为predoc和博士后学员感兴趣的病毒学的各个方面在这个校园。我们新的培训计划的活动的亮点包括广泛的病毒学课程，校园范围内的每周分子病毒学研讨会系列，所有培训师和学员参加与之相关的具体指导活动，每月学员数据俱乐部，多方面的职业发展方法，强调获得写作赠款和手稿以及口头陈述的技能，道德培训，以及年度，全项目病毒学静修Predoc和Postdoc受训者将被要求参加所有培训活动，出席年度研讨会，接受道德培训，并在predoc的情况下获得一个专注于病毒学的未成年人。除了校园范围内的系列研讨会，实习生数据俱乐部和务虚会，还有许多合作项目之间的病毒学实验室在校园以及实验室间小组会议，促进思想交流。每个学员的进度都受到多重监控。我们吸引优秀的predoc学员的能力反映在麦迪逊的研究生课程的前十名国家排名中，吸引了对病毒学感兴趣的学生。我们还招募优秀的predoc和postdoc学员到我们的实验室，通过每个培训师的研究计划，在校园内，我们在麦迪逊组织和主办病毒学会议的机会的广度的个人实力相结合，以及我们的少数民族为重点的招聘工作。我们在培养病毒学家方面取得了很好的成绩，我们实验室过去的学员中有三分之一现在担任教职，90%以上在生物医学科学领域工作，这为我们在培养下一代杰出病毒学家方面继续取得成功提供了强有力的证据。 相关性：培训下一代病毒学家对于我们国家应对现有和新出现的病毒引起的疾病的能力至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a resubmission of an application from the University of Wisconsin for a new training grant in the area of virology. Research on viruses is an important focus area in science. Knowledge gained about viruses has led to many fundamental insights about basic cellular processes such as replication, transcription, translation, mechanisms of oncogenesis, and host immunity. Viruses are important pathogens contributing greatly to human misery and death. At the University of Wisconsin, virology is a major focus area of study, with 19 well-funded virology faculty studying a wide variety of viruses from ones that infect plants and insects to ones that cause human cancer and viruses causing emerging new disease such as Ebola and new strains of influenza virus. An effort to develop an integrated virology training program in Madison began over 15 years ago with the creation of the Madison Virology Program. This new training grant application reflects our collective goal to develop further an outstanding training program for predoc and postdoc trainees interested in all aspects of virology on this campus. Highlights of our new training program's activities include an extensive virology curriculum, a campus wide weekly Molecular Virology Seminar series attended by all trainers and trainees with specific mentoring activities associated with it, a monthly trainee data club, a multifaceted approach to career development that emphasizes acquisition of skills in writing grants and manuscripts as well as in oral presentations, training in ethics, and an annual, program-wide virology retreat. Predoc and postdoc trainees will be required to participate in all training activities, present yearly seminars, be trained in ethics, and in the case of predoc obtain a minor focused on virology. In addition to the campus-wide seminar series, trainee data club, and retreat, there are many collaborative projects between virology labs on campus as well as interlab group meetings that foster the exchange of ideas. Progress of each trainee is monitored at multiple. Our ability to attract outstanding predoc trainees is reflected in the top-ten national rankings of the graduate programs in Madison that attract students interested in virology. We also recruit outstanding predoc and postdoc trainees to our labs through a combination of the individual strength of each of the trainer's research program, the breadth of the opportunities in virology on campus, our organizing and hosting virology meetings in Madison, and our minority-focused recruiting efforts. Our strong record of achievement in training virologists, with one third of past trainees from our labs now holding faculty positions and >90% working in the biomedical sciences, provides strong evidence for our continued success in training the next generation of outstanding virologists. RELEVANCE: Training the next generation of virologists is critical to our national ability to deal with existing as well as emerging diseases caused by viruses.