Training Program in Developmental Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：博士前发育生物学培训计划（DBTP）的核心使命是培养高素质，独立的研究科学家，他们接受培训，采取广泛的跨学科方法来解决发育生物学问题。这一使命与芝加哥大学生物科学部（BSD）的理念相一致，该理念旨在避免学科之间的人为界限，并鼓励广泛的互动和合作。DBTP的跨学科和协作性质通过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被安置在一个行政和知识框架下。DBTP培训师是一个充满活力的团队，由32名资金充足的研究人员组成，包括经验丰富的高级教师和才华横溢的初级教师，他们分别位于九个不同的基础科学和临床部门。 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，DBTP建立在芝加哥大学在发育生物学方面的长期优势之上：在这种情况下特别重要的是在模式生物的遗传学，小鼠分子遗传学，进化发育生物学和发育神经生物学方面进行的研究。此外，在第一个资助期内，战略性的新员工使该计划能够在以下领域扩大或发展研究优势：发展的细胞基础，干细胞生物学以及在开发系统中使用计算/建模/系统级方法。 DBTP学员是从六个跨学科的研究生培训计划中精心挑选出来的：培训补助金支持从他们进入研究生学习的第二年开始，通常延长两年，但需经过竞争性更新。我们建议继续每年支持四名受训人员，使我们能够在保持现有和以前受训人员的关键群体的同时具有高度的选择性。学员受益于战略性设计的课程，包括发育生物学的三个核心和三个补充正式课程，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/数据展示俱乐部，年度务虚会，两年一度的“DBTP小型务虚会”，以及一年两次的学生运行的为期一天的DBTP研讨会。总之，DBTP整合了各种各样的培训方法，以培养发育生物学研究和教育领域的杰出未来领导者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 Division of Biological Sciences (BSD) at the University of Chicago, which seeks to avoid artificial boundaries between disciplines and to encourage broad based interaction and collaboration. The interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the DBTP is enhanced by the structure of the BSD: researchers in all of the 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-two well-funded researchers, including both experienced senior faculty and talented junior faculty, who are based in nine different basic science and clinical departments. To produce researchers trained in a variety of areas relevant to human health and disease, the DBTP builds on long-standing University of Chicago strengths in developmental biology: of particular importance in this context is the research being conducted in the genetics of model organisms, in mouse molecular genetics, in evolutionary developmental biology, and in developmental neurobiology. Further, during this first funding period, strategic new hires have enabled the program to expand or develop research strengths in the following areas: the cellular basis of development, stem cell biology, and the use of computation/modeling/systems level approaches in developing systems. DBTP trainees are carefully selected from six interdisciplinary graduate training programs: training grant support begins as they enter their second year of graduate studies and generally extends for two years, subject to competitive renewal. We propose to continue to support four trainees each year, allowing us to be highly selective while maintaining a critical cohort of current and previous trainees. Trainees benefit from a strategically designed curriculum that includes three core and three supplemental formal courses in developmental biology, and from an extensive range of supplemental training-related activities. Among these activities are the DBTP sponsored developmental biology Seminar Series and journal/data presentation club, an annual retreat, biennial "DBTP mini-retreats", and a biannual, student-run, one-day DBTP symposium. In summary, the DBTP integrates a wide range of varied training approaches to prepare exceptional future leaders in developmental biology research and education.