Molecular Biological Approaches to Endocrinology

目的和方案特点。这是一个成功培养研究生的培训项目。 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20年该计划的优势是杰出的核心师资力量和异常丰富的研究 加州大学圣地亚哥分校索尔克生物科学研究所提供的环境 和斯克里普斯研究所。教师们的研究都是国际公认的 成就，并有长期的记录，培训研究生谁去了非常富有成效的 careers.到目前为止，我们有20名学生谁拥有学术立场，作为独立的调查员， 优秀的学术机构，7人是生物技术公司的研究人员，其他人目前在 博士后培养期结束。该计划是跨学科的，涉及来自UCSD的教师 医学院，生物学系和UCSD的部门和分部 内分泌学、生理学、药理学、细胞和分子医学系、神经 系统和索尔克研究所的肽生物学实验室参与其中。研究生学习 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，并已获得广泛的背景下的文献和 这些领域的基础科学需要发现。正式课程，实验室实践经验，以及 与项目教师的密切互动也将为这一学科的教学做好准备。我们希望 被允许有机会继续这种高成功的博士前trianing赠款，其中我们是相当 骄傲 培养对象：每年招收8名生物或化学专业本科以上学历的培养对象 博士学位程序.他们是从>~100名申请者中挑选出来的， 平均分，GRE成绩，以及与教师和高级研究生的面试， 吸引少数民族学生。研究生将被定向到分子内分泌学的职业生涯， 调节神经内分泌学，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报告。

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.