Developmental Biology Training Grant

 描述（由申请人提供）：此申请是为了延长俄勒冈州的长期发展生物学研究生培训计划的大学的资金。我们的目标是培养下一代严谨，创新和实验技能的发展生物学家的领导者。我们的学员培养领导自己的研究项目的技能，将发现传达给其他科学家和公众，并教导后代科学家。在许多活跃和多样化的实验室之一进行个性化的研究培训是我们计划的核心。学员可以通过聘请共同顾问来整合两个群体的培训来增强这种经验。在过去的资助周期中，我们通过聘请研究小鼠发育生物学的教师来扩大我们的研究和培训范围。我们还增加了导师，他们增强了我们在进化/发展和发育神经生物学方面的优势。最近，我们正在与数学系合作，聘请包括基因组学专家在内的定量生物学教师集群。 研究培训是建立在最近修改的课程基础上的。核心研究生课程是高级遗传学和发育遗传学以及发育进化，发育神经生物学或基因组学方法之一。此外，所有受训人员都参加高级生物统计学。我们围绕实验室和课程，丰富的增强和拓宽经验。例子包括第一年的轮换，教学，论文咨询委员会，期刊俱乐部，年度学生研究报告，并与来访的演讲者互动。我们提供了几个新增强的职业发展活动，以支持对非学术职业感兴趣的学生。一个独特的亮点是我们的年度学生组织的发育生物学研讨会，在那里学生主办一组领先的科学家分享他们的研究对学生选择的主题。 我们请求支持一个项目中的七个博士前职位，该项目包括22个高度合作和资金充足的实验室中的74名博士前和37名博士后实习生。培训教师被任命在两个部门之一（生物学或化学和生物化学）和四个研究所之一（分子生物学研究所，神经科学研究所，生态与进化研究所，俄勒冈州海洋生物研究所）。研究所提供了一个互动的环境;他们汇集了共同利益的研究人员，运行研究生课程，提供行政支持，并举办年度务虚会。由于合作的丰富传统，共同的培训活动，大多数实验室的近距离和共享设施，学员都接触到所有研究所的研究。 因此，我们的计划促进跨学科的培训，桥梁遗传学，分子生物学，细胞生物学，计算生物学，神经科学和进化生物学。这种广度补充了学生在他们的主机实验室接受的重点项目为导向的培训，产生创造性的发展生物学家有权领导自己的一流的研究计划使用。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to renew funding of the University of Oregon's long-standing Developmental Biology graduate training program. Our goal is to train leaders of the next generation of rigorous, innovative, and experimentally-skilled developmental biologists. Our trainees develop the skills to lead research programs of their own, communicate discoveries to other scientists and the lay public, and teach future generations of scientists. Individualized research training within one of many active and diverse laboratories is the core of our program. Trainees may enhance this experience by engaging co-advisors to integrate training from two groups. Over the past funding cycle, we expanded the breadth of our research and training by hiring faculty who study developmental biology of the mouse. We also added mentors who enhance our strengths in evolution/development and developmental neurobiology. More recently, we are collaborating with the Mathematics department to hire a quantitative biology faculty cluster that includes genomics experts. The research training is built upon a recently revamped curricular foundation. Core graduate-level courses are Advanced Genetics and Developmental Genetics and one of Evolution of Development, Developmental Neurobiology, or Genomics Approaches. Additionally, all trainees take Advanced Biological Statistics. We surround the lab and coursework with a wealth of enhancing and broadening experiences. Examples include first year rotations, teaching, a dissertation advisory committee, journal clubs, annual student research reports, and interactions with visiting speakers. We provide several newly enhanced career developmental activities to support students interested in non-academic careers. A unique highlight is our annual student-organized Developmental Biology symposium, where the students host a group of leading scientists to share their research on a topic of the students' choosing. We request support for seven predoctoral positions within a program that includes 74 predoctoral and 37 postdoctoral trainees in 22 highly collaborative and well-funded labs. Training faculty are appointed in one of two Departments (Biology or Chemistry & Biochemistry) and one of four Institutes (Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology). The Institutes provide an interactive environment; they bring together researchers with common interests, run graduate programs, provide administrative support, and host annual retreats. Trainees are exposed to research in all the Institutes due to a rich tradition of collaboration, common training activities, the close proximity of most labs, and shared facilities. As such, our program fosters interdisciplinary training that bridges genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, computational biology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. This breadth complements the focused project-oriented training the students receive in their host labs, producing creative developmental biologists empowered to lead their own first-rate research programs use.