Training Program in Developmental Biology

博士前发育生物学培训计划（DBTP）的核心使命是生产 高素质，独立的研究科学家谁是训练有素的采取广泛的跨学科的方法， 发育生物学问题。这一使命与芝加哥大学的哲学是一致的， 生物科学部（BSD），旨在避免学科之间的人为界限， 鼓励广泛的互动和协作。的跨学科和协作性质， DBTP通过BSD的结构得到增强：所有临床和基础科学部门的研究人员都是 它们的位置很近，在一个行政和知识框架下团结在一起。DBTP培训师 是一个充满活力的团队，由36名资金充足的研究人员组成，其中包括经验丰富的高级教师和才华横溢的 初级教师，总部设在九个BSD部门（基础科学和临床）和两个相邻的物理科学 部门 为了培养在与人类健康和疾病相关的各种领域接受过培训的研究人员， 建立在长期和新兴的芝加哥大学在发育生物学的优势。我们 在模式生物的遗传学、发育的细胞基础方面具有公认的优势， 进化发育生物学在第二个融资期内，战略性的新员工使 计划扩大其在干细胞生物学的研究优势，使用计算/建模/系统水平 发展系统的方法，特别是发展神经生物学，这是一个正在研究的研究领域。 受到新的芝加哥大学格罗斯曼神经科学研究所的积极影响， 生物学与人类行为 DBTP学员是从六个跨学科的研究生培训项目中精心挑选出来的： 补助金支助从他们进入第二年学习时开始，一般延长两年，但须符合下列条件： 竞争性更新。我们建议在未来两年继续支持四名学员，然后增加 这一数字在第3-5年增加到5名受训人员，以利用不断扩大的学生群体， 发育神经生物学这一数量的受训人员将使我们具有高度的选择性，同时保持 临界队列大小。学员受益于战略性设计的课程，其中包括六个 发展生物学的专门正式课程，定量培训的新要求，以及 广泛的补充培训相关活动。这些活动包括DBTP赞助的 发育生物学研讨会系列和期刊/进展中的数据俱乐部（加上相关的新通讯 课程），每年务虚会，并定期学生运行DBTP赞助的研讨会。总之，DBTP 整合了各种各样的培训方法，以培养未来的发展生物学领导者 研究和教育。

The core mission of the pre-doctoral Developmental Biology Training Program (DBTP) is to produce highly qualified, independent research scientists who are trained to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to developmental biology problems. This mission is consistent with the philosophy of the University of Chicago's Biological Sciences Division (BSD), which seeks to avoid artificial boundaries between disciplines and encourage broad based interaction and collaboration. The interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the DBTP is enhanced by the BSD's structure: researchers in all clinical and basic science departments are housed in close proximity and united under one administrative and intellectual framework. The DBTP trainers are a vibrant group of thirty-six well-funded researchers, including experienced senior faculty and talented junior faculty, based in nine BSD departments (basic science and clinical) and two adjacent Physical Sciences departments. To produce researchers trained in a variety of areas relevant to human health and disease, the DBTP builds on both long-standing and burgeoning University of Chicago strengths in developmental biology. We have well-established strengths in the genetics of model organisms, the cellular basis of development, and evolutionary developmental biology. During this second funding period, strategic new hires have enabled the program to expand its research strengths in stem cell biology, the use of computation/modeling/systems level approaches in developing systems, and in particular developmental neurobiology, a research area that is being positively influenced by the new University of Chicago Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior. DBTP trainees are carefully selected from six interdisciplinary graduate training programs: training grant support begins as they enter their second year of studies and generally extends for two years, subject to competitive renewal. We propose to continue to support four trainees for the next two years, and then increase that number to five trainees in years 3-5 to take advantage of the expanding pool of students with interests in developmental neurobiology. This number of trainees will allow us to be highly selective, while maintaining a critical cohort size. Trainees benefit from a strategically designed curriculum that includes access to six dedicated formal courses in developmental biology, a new requirement for quantitative training, and an extensive range of supplemental training-related activities. Among these activities are the DBTP sponsored developmental biology seminar series and journal/data in progress club (plus associated new communications course), an annual retreat, and regular student-run DBTP-sponsored symposia. In summary, the DBTP integrates a wide range of varied training approaches to prepare future leaders in developmental biology research and education.