Graduate Training in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：继续支持要求在遗传学研究生培训正在进行的计划在俄勒冈州大学。我们的目标是产生创造性的，严谨的，实验熟练的科学家，对基因功能和遗传的进化，分子，细胞和发育背景的赞赏。我们的目标是帮助学生培养领导自己的研究项目的技能，向公众传播科学，并教授下一代遗传学家。在一个活跃的实验室内的研究培训提供了我们计划的骨干。我们通过要求学员参加三个核心领域（分子遗传学，发育遗传学和进化遗传学）和统计学的研究生课程，确保了坚实的知识基础。课程在第一年由密集的实验室轮换计划补充。我们围绕实验室和课程，丰富的增强和拓宽经验-教学，期刊俱乐部，学生研究讲座，外部演讲者的研讨会系列等。资金要求在一个程序，其中包括约55博士九个博士前实习生职位。学生和23名教师。该计划汇集了来自三个研究所（分子生物学研究所，神经科学研究所和生态与进化研究所）和三个部门（生物学，化学和心理学）的学生和教师。该计划通过其高度合作的培训教师小组促进跨学科培训，其专业知识涵盖经典遗传学，基因组学和相关学科的广度。学生在不同部门和研究所的实验室之间移动很容易，因为所有GTG教师实验室都很近，而且我们的教师致力于最大限度地减少这种移动的官僚障碍。绝大多数前受训人员都有很好的出版记录，并受雇于生物医学研究和/或教学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for an ongoing program in graduate research training in Genetics at the University of Oregon. Our goal is to produce creative, rigorous, and experimentally skilled scientists with an appreciation for the evolutionary, molecular, cellular, and developmental contexts of gene function and heredity. We aim to help students develop the skills to lead research programs of their own, communicate science to the lay public, and teach the next generation of geneticists. Research training within an active laboratory provides the backbone of our program. We ensure a solid intellectual foundation by requiring trainees to take graduate level coursework in three core areas (molecular genetics, developmental genetics, and evolutionary genetics) and in statistics. Coursework is complemented in the first year by an intensive laboratory rotation program. We surround the lab and coursework with a wealth of enhancing and broadening experiences -- teaching, journal clubs, student research talks, seminar series by outside speakers, and more. Funds are requested for nine predoctoral trainee positions within a program that includes approximately 55 Ph.D. students and 23 faculty. The program brings together students and faculty from three research institutes (Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and Institute of Ecology and Evolution) and three Departments (Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology). The program fosters interdisciplinary training via its highly collaborative group of training faculty, whose expertise spans the breadth of classical genetics, genomics, and allied disciplines. Students move easily between laboratories in the different departments and institutes due to the close proximity of all GTG faculty labs and to our faculty's commitment to minimizing bureaucratic barriers to such movement. The vast majority of former trainees have strong publication records and are employed in biomedical research and/or teaching.