GRADUATE TRAINING IN GENETICS

描述（申请人提供）：生物、化学和心理学系拟开展遗传学研究培训。该项目包括约50名研究生和45名博士后培训生，共申请9个博士预科职位。培训教师20人。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项目教员的指导下进行实验室研究。通过这些经验，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。生物和化学系提供的正式课程以及突出当前遗传学和相关学科研究的研讨会项目加强了培训。培训设施包括教师实验室和支持服务，如最先进的基因组学和蛋白质组学设施，培养基制备，电子，共聚焦和双光子显微镜设施，动物设施和多克隆/单克隆抗体设施。主要设备是共享的，并安置在公共空间。大多数学院的实验室是毗连的，并且在相互连接的建筑中。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.