Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：在遗传学博士前培训计划在爱荷华州的大学有40年的历史，在此期间，超过80名学生毕业的博士学位。该计划目前为67名教师和44名学生在四个学院和18个学术部门在我们的校园。自上次提交申请以来，我们的跨学科教师人数增加了12人，平均每年有8名新学生进入该项目。我们有一个令人羡慕的学生保留，按时毕业率，出版物和奖项，以及职业发展到博士后奖学金和教师职位在研究密集型大学的记录。特别值得注意的是，我们的计划在校园内建立比较基因组学和生物信息学研究生课程中发挥了核心作用。我们已经看到了遗传学博士学位中新生的计算遗传学子轨道选项的增长和固化，现在已经有七名学生从这条赛道毕业，其中四名已经在教职员工的位置。我们最近在使学生群体多样化方面取得了进展，并采用了几项战略，以建立少数民族学生的核心，并提高这些学生乃至所有学生在该计划中的保留率。在此更新申请中，我们要求继续我们目前拥有的六个奖学金名额，以服务于我们的高质量和富有成效的学生干部。该应用程序将概述我们在过去40年的计划存在的成功，我们目前的结构，并在多样性，毕业时间和指导未来的改进计划。我们有一个有凝聚力的学生群体，他们与广泛而多样化的教师一起工作，这些教师代表了遗传学界的各个方面。最后，我们在教师和行政管理层面都有稳定的项目领导，并在研究生院内提供强有力的支持，这有助于确保该项目不仅继续取得成功，而且在科学事业日益具有挑战性的时候进一步加强和多样化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa has a 40-year history during which more than 80 students have graduated with a Ph.D. The program currently serves 67 faculty and 44 students in four colleges and 18 academic departments across our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application, our interdisciplinary faculty has grown by 12 with an average of 8 new students entering the program each year. We have an enviable record of student retention, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards, as well as career advancement to postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions at research-intensive universities. Of particular note is the central role that our program has played in building graduate programs in comparative genomics and bioinformatics on campus. We have seen growth and solidification of the nascent Computational Genetics subtrack option in the Genetics Ph.D., with now seven students that have already graduated from the track, four of which are already in faculty positions. We have made recent progress in diversifying our student population, and incorporated several strategies to build on a nucleus of minority students, as well as to enhance the retention of these and indeed all students in the program. In this renewal application we request a continuation of the six fellowship slots we currently have available to serve our cadre of high quality and productive students. This application will outline our successes over the last 40 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements in diversity, graduation times and mentoring. We have a cohesive group of students working with a broad and diverse collection of faculty who represent the genetics community in all its facets. Finally we have stable program leadership at both the faculty and administrative level and very strong support within the graduate college that helps to ensure not only the continued success of the program but its further strengthening and diversification at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.