Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：微生物致病的分子机制培训计划是密歇根大学医学院的一个成熟和成功的计划。在密歇根州高度跨学科的环境中，它每年支持六名博士后学生和两名博士后研究员。培训既在实验室中进行，也在更大的部门内通过课程、研讨会、期刊俱乐部和职业发展活动进行，这些导师都是合格和尽职的研究导师。密歇根大学通过一个名为生物医学计划(PIBS)的共同机制招收学生，该计划是一个由密歇根大学医学院14个授予学位的项目组成的互动联盟。通过PIBS注册的学生参加一个第一年的项目，该项目侧重于他们作为年轻科学家的个人职业发展，并从14个项目中确定并选择一个项目来获得学位。在第一年的培训结束时，他们可以根据对微生物在健康和疾病中的作用的研究的强烈兴趣的证据，被MMMP提名为支持对象。该计划的课程要求与微生物学和免疫学系的要求一致，MMMP学员还有机会参加MMMP课程的核心--诊所的科学课程。在这门课程中，MMMP学员从翻译的角度探索传染病，学习将他们所接受的基础研究和培训与在病房实践的传染病医学的临床和治疗特征联系起来。多年来，这门课程对四年级的医学生和医学科学家培训计划的学生都很有吸引力，他们对传染病问题背后的最新科学以及病原体的机制有所了解，这些病原体可能会成为他们有朝一日在医生职业生涯中使用的新的治疗或疫苗靶点。MMMPs学员还有机会在“青年调查员”项目中接待来访的科学家并与他们进行广泛的访问，该项目将调查人员带到校园，就他们的研究进行研讨会，并与学员会面，讨论他们作为学员自己面临的职业道路选择。最近通过一种类似于招收学生的共同机制向密歇根大学医学院招收博士后实习生的努力已经成功地为MMMP计划确定了强有力的候选人。即将到来的MMMP培训计划资助期的新努力包括纳入重要的微生物组和生物信息学方面的新研究培训，以及与拉克姆研究生院学生成功办公室就职业参与和发展计划密切合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Molecular Mechanisms in Microbial Pathogenesis Training Program is an established and successful program at the University of Michigan Medical School. It supports six predoctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows per year in the highly interdisciplinary environment of Michigan. Training takes place both in the laboratory with well-qualified and committed research mentors and within the larger Department in courses, seminars, journal clubs and career development activities. Students are recruited to Michigan through a common mechanism called the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) an interactive confederation of 14 degree-granting programs based in the UM Medical School. Students matriculating through PIBS participate in a first year program that focuses them on individual career development as young scientists and on identifying and selecting one of the 14 programs from which to obtain their degrees. At the end of their first year of training, they can b nominated for support by MMMP based on evidence of a strong interest in research into the roles of microbes in health and disease. Coursework requirements for the program is aligned with that of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and MMMP trainees also have the opportunity to participate in the course Science in the Clinics, the centerpiece of the MMMP curriculum. In this course, MMMP trainees explore the infectious diseases from a translational perspective, learning to connect the basic research and training they are receiving with clinical and therapeutic features of infectious disease medicine as it is practiced on the wards. Over the years the course has been attractive to fourth year medical students as well as students in the Medical Scientist Training Program, who gain an appreciation for the most recent science behind infectious diseases problems and the mechanisms of pathogens that may serve as new therapeutic or vaccine targets they might one day use in their careers as physicians. MMMP trainees also have the opportunity to host and visit extensively with visiting scientists in the "Young Investigators" program, which brings investigators to campus for seminars on their research and meetings with trainees to discuss career path choices they were faced with as trainees themselves. Recent efforts to recruit postdoctoral trainees to the UM Medical School through a common mechanism similar to how students are recruited have already been successful in identifying strong candidates for the MMMP Program. New efforts for the upcoming funding period of the MMMP Training Program include incorporating significant new research training in microbiome and bioinformatics and working closely with the Office of Student Success at the Rackham Graduate School on a program of career engagement and development.