Virology Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：在富有成效的第一个资助期之后，我们提交了niaid资助的T32“病毒学培训补助金”的竞争性续期申请。从病毒学研究中获得的知识使人们对基本细胞过程有了许多基本的认识，如复制、转录、翻译、肿瘤发生机制和宿主免疫。病毒是造成人类痛苦和死亡的重要病原体。在威斯康星大学，病毒学是一个主要的研究重点，有20多个资金充足的病毒学教师研究各种各样的病毒，从感染植物和昆虫的病毒到导致人类癌症的病毒。其他活跃的研究领域包括对埃博拉病毒等新出现病毒和高致病性流感病毒新毒株的研究。20多年前，随着麦迪逊病毒学计划的创立，在麦迪逊建立综合病毒学培训计划的努力开始了。Roland Rueckert和Howard Temin。这个T32是我们的培训计划的基础，为博士和博士后学员感兴趣的病毒学的各个方面在这个校园。我们的培训项目的培训活动的亮点包括广泛的病毒学课程，全校范围的每周分子病毒学研讨会系列，所有培训师和学员都参加了与之相关的具体指导活动，一个多方面的职业发展方法，强调获得写作许可和手稿以及口头报告的技能，道德培训，以及每年一次的病毒学项目。博士预科和博士后学员参加所有培训活动，参加年度研讨会，接受道德培训，并且在博士预科的情况下，辅修病毒学。除了校园范围内的系列研讨会和静修之外，校园内的病毒学实验室之间还有许多合作项目，以及促进思想交流的实验室间小组会议。通过年度研讨会、培训补助金指导委员会的年度评估、与个别导师的互动以及联合主任和行政助理的方案监督，在多个层面监测每个受训人员的进展。我们吸引优秀博士预科学员的能力体现在我们的校园在微生物学领域排名全国第三。我们招募优秀的博士前和博士后学员到我们的实验室，通过结合每个培训师的研究项目的个人实力，病毒学机会的广度，我们的组织和

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): After a productive first funding period, we submit this competitive renewal application for the NIAID-funded T32, "Virology Training Grant". Knowledge gained from research in virology has led to many fundamental insights about basic cellular processes such as replication, transcription, translation, mechanisms of oncogenesis, and host immunity. Viruses are important pathogens that contribute greatly to human misery and death. At the University of Wisconsin, virology is a major focus of study, with over 20 well-funded virology faculty studying a wide variety of viruses, from those that infect plants and insects, to those that cause human cancer. Additional vibrant areas of research include studies on emerging viruses such as Ebola and new strains of highly pathogenic influenza virus. An effort to develop an integrated virology training program in Madison began over 20 years ago with the creation of the Madison Virology Program by Drs. Roland Rueckert and Howard Temin. This T32 is the cornerstone of our training program for predoc and postdoc trainees interested in all aspects of virology on this campus. Highlights of our training program's training activities includes an extensive virology curriculum, a campus wide weekly Molecular Virology Seminar series attended by all trainers and trainees with specific mentoring activities associated with it,a multifaceted approach to career development that emphasizes acquisition of skills in writing grants and manuscripts as well as in oral presentations, training in ethics, and an annual, program-wide virology retreat. Predoc and postdoc trainees participate in all training activities, present yearly seminars, are trained in ethics, and, in the case of predocs, obtain a minor focused on virology. In addition to the campus wide seminar series and retreat, there are many collaborative projects between virology labs on campus as well as interlab group meetings that foster the exchange of ideas. Progress of each trainee is monitored at multiple levels through yearly seminars, yearly evaluations by the training grant's Steering Committee, as well as interactions with the individual mentor and programmatic oversight by the co-Directors and the administrative assistant. Our ability to attract outstanding predoc trainees is reflected in our campus being ranked 3rd in the nation in the field of Microbiology. We recruit outstanding predoc and postdoc trainees to our labs through a combination of the individual strength of each of the trainer's research program, the breadth of the opportunities in virology, our organizing and hosting virology meetings in Madison that bring to Madison students from across the US who get to experience first hand our academic community, and our highly successful minority recruiting efforts. Our strong record of achievement in training virologists, with one third of pas trainees from our labs now holding faculty positions and >90% working in the biomedical sciences, provides strong evidence for our capability to train the next generation of outstanding virologists.