Training in Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine

描述(由申请人提供)： 加州大学戴维斯分校(UCD)比较呼吸生物学和疾病比较肺部生物学和医学培训项目旨在为每年6名博士后和4名博士后学员提供机会，使他们成为肺部研究的独立研究员。培训的期限将取决于个别受训人员先前的经验和能力，以过渡到他们自己的独立学术和/或研究职业。候选人的选择将特别注重少数族裔的招聘战略。博士前学生将从申请该中心许多研究生小组项目和/或申请个人培训教员的候选人库中挑选出来，并提供与该中心研究活动和优先事项相关的先前研究培训的证据。重点将放在广泛的肺研究培训活动上，重点是肺比较生物学和细胞和分子机制。教员将指导五个主要领域的研究培训：1)呼吸道病理生理学；2)肺毒性药理学和毒素发生学，包括吸入毒理学；3)肺发育和分化；4)肺分子和细胞生物学；5)肺部炎症和免疫学。该培训方案包括一个有组织的核心课程，包括以下方面的研究培训：(A)科学伦理和论文和赠款撰写战略，包括统计学；(B)肺部病理生物学原理；(C)专门的肺部成像技术；(D)蛋白质组学和基因组学的基本原理；(E)转基因细胞和小鼠技术。研究会议包括研讨会和进行中的会议，以评估受训人员的进展情况。在整个培训计划中，强调职业规划，因此该计划可以个性化，以最好地实现每个受训者的个人目标。该计划旨在利用加州大学戴维斯分校的现有优势，包括医学院和兽医学院肺部研究人员之间的良好合作，校园内的国家灵长类研究中心，校园内与杰克逊实验室的老鼠生物学计划，先进的吸入毒理学设施，在肺部和重症监护医学方面非常强大的临床计划，以及超过25年的研究培训记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of California, Davis (UCD) Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Disease Training in Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine Program is designed to provide opportunities for 6 predoctoral and 4 postdoctoral trainees/year to become independent investigators in pulmonary research. The duration of training will depend on the individual trainee's prior experience and capabilities to transition to their own independent academic and/or research careers. Candidates will be selected with special efforts give to minority recruitment strategies. Predoctoral students will be selected from the pool of candidates applying to the Center's many postgraduate group programs and/or applying to individual training faculty members and with evidence of previous research training relevant to the Center's research activities and priorities. Strong emphasis will be given to broad scope lung research training activities, with emphasis on lung comparative biology and cellular and molecular mechanisms. Faculty preceptors will direct research training in five primary areas: 1) airway pathophysiology; 2) lung toxopharmacology and toxogenetics, including inhalation toxicology; 3) lung development and differentiation; 4) lung molecular and cellular biology, and 5) lung inflammation and immunology. The training program includes an organized core curriculum consisting of research training in: (a) scientific ethics and paper and grant writing strategies including statistics; (b) principals of lung pathobiology; (c) specialized lung imaging technologies; (d) basic principles of proteonomics and genomics; and (e) transgenic cell and mouse technologies. Research conferences include seminars and work-in-progress sessions to assess trainee progress. Throughout the training program, career planning is stressed so the Program can be individualized to best achieve each trainee's personal goals. The Program is designed to be an advantage of the existing strengths of UC Davis, including well established collaboration between lung researchers in the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine, a National Primate Research Center on campus, a mouse biology program with Jackson Laboratory on campus, sophisticated facilities for inhalation toxicology, a very strong clinical program in pulmonary and critical care medicine, and an established track record of research training over a period of more than 25 years.