Training Program in Developmental Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的发育生物学培训计划的核心使命是培养高素质的独立研究科学家，接受培训，以广泛的跨学科方法来解决发育生物学问题。 研究人员已经建立了一个长期（30年）的积极培训计划，以发育生物学委员会（CDB）为中心，该计划受益于重要的机构和计划支持，完善的课程设置，以及一组31名充满活力，资金充足的教师培训师。 该计划在招募高素质的学员方面有着良好的记录，这些学员将继续在学术界和工业界从事成功的研究事业。 国家卫生研究院的支持将使他们能够正式培训目前来自加勒比开发银行内外的非正式受训人员。 谁录取到其他学位授予单位，如分子遗传学和细胞生物学，遗传学，神经生物学和有机生物学与解剖学的学员，显着提高研究和培训工作的跨学科性质。 提出了一项计划，将确保所有学员接受适当的教育，在发育生物学，并同样重要的是，促进学员之间的互动，以提高他们的学习经验。 这一使命完全符合生物科学部的理念，即避免人为的界限，鼓励广泛的互动和合作。 DBTP培训师是经验丰富的导师和有才华的初级教师的组合。 在发育遗传学和发育过程的细胞基础方面有着长期的优势。 此外，在过去的十年中，芝加哥大学已经建立了发育神经生物学和进化发育生物学的重点领域-一年两次的学生运行的进化变化的发展基础研讨会是全国首屈一指的"进化-发育"会议之一。 组织者要求为总共六名博士前培训生提供支持。 他们将支持传入的学生在发育生物学明确的兴趣，并从相关学科的学生，其兴趣集中在研究的第一年发展问题的组合。 一个精心设计的课程已经开发，包括在发育生物学，在分子生物学，遗传学，细胞生物学，神经生物学和进化生物学的额外课程，以及广泛的补充活动，包括年度务虚会，期刊俱乐部，和几个系列研讨会的六个正式课程。 为了进一步加强这些培训活动，组织者建议每年举办一次为期一天的发育生物学专题讨论会。 因此，该计划应培养在与人类健康和疾病直接相关的各种领域接受过培训的研究人员。 芝加哥大学的发育生物学研究包括动物疾病模型的产生，癌症和干细胞生物学的研究，以及对影响人类的出生缺陷的潜在基础的研究。 生物科学部内部的互动环境允许合作，促进发现从实验室工作台到临床的移动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The core mission of the proposed Developmental Biology Training Program is to produce highly qualified independent research scientists trained to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to developmental biology problems. The investigators have built a longstanding (30 year) active training program centered in the Committee on Developmental Biology (CDB), which benefits from significant Institutional and programmatic support, a well-established course curriculum, and a group of 31 vibrant, well-funded faculty trainers. This program has a proven track record in recruiting highly qualified trainees who go on to successful research careers in academia and industry. NIH support will allow them to formalize training of what is currently an informal grouping of trainees from within and beyond CDB. Trainees who matriculate to other degree-granting units such as Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology, and Organismal Biology & Anatomy, significantly enhance the interdisciplinary nature of research and training endeavor. A program is proposed that will ensure all trainees receive appropriate education in developmental biology, and of equal importance, facilitate interactions among trainees to enhance their learning experience. This mission is entirely consistent with the philosophy of the Division of Biological Sciences to avoid artificial boundaries and to encourage broad based interaction and collaboration. The DBTP trainers are a combination of experienced mentors and talented junior faculty. There are longstanding strengths in developmental genetics and the cellular basis of development processes. In addition, over the last decade the University of Chicago has built focus areas in developmental neurobiology and evolutionary developmental biology - the biannual student run symposium on the Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change is one of the premiere national "Evo-Devo" meetings. The organizers request support for a total of six predoctoral trainees. They will support a combination of incoming students with clear interests in developmental biology, and students from related disciplines whose interests focus on developmental questions in the first year of study. A carefully designed curriculum has been developed including six formal courses in developmental biology, additional courses in molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology, and a wide range of supplemental activities including an annual retreat, journal club, and several seminar series. To enhance these training activities further the organizers propose to develop an annual one-day developmental biology symposium. Thus the program should produce researchers trained in a variety of areas directly relevant to human health and disease. Developmental biology studies at the University of Chicago include the generation of animal disease models, studies of cancer and stem cell biology, as well as research into the underlying basis of birth defects that affect humans. The interactive environment within the Division of Biological Sciences allows collaborations that facilitate the movement of discoveries from the laboratory bench to the clinic.