Graduate Training in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：俄勒冈大学遗传学研究生研究培训项目正在进行中，请继续提供支持。我们的目标是培养具有创造性，严谨和实验技能的科学家，并对基因功能和遗传的进化，分子，细胞和发育背景表示赞赏。我们的目标是帮助学生培养领导自己的研究项目的技能，向公众传播科学，并教授下一代遗传学家。在活跃的实验室进行研究培训是我们项目的支柱。我们通过要求学员在三个核心领域（分子遗传学、发育遗传学和进化遗传学）和统计学中学习研究生水平的课程来确保坚实的知识基础。课程作业在第一年由密集的实验室轮转计划补充。我们围绕着实验室和课程，提供丰富的经验——教学、期刊俱乐部、学生研究讲座、外部演讲者的系列研讨会等等。该项目包括大约55名博士生和23名教师，需要为9个博士预科实习生职位提供资金。该项目汇集了来自三个研究所（分子生物学研究所、神经科学研究所和生态与进化研究所）和三个系（生物学、化学和心理学）的学生和教师。该项目通过其高度协作的培训教师小组促进跨学科培训，他们的专业知识跨越了经典遗传学，基因组学和相关学科的广度。学生可以很容易地在不同部门和研究所的实验室之间移动，因为GTG所有教师实验室都很近，而且我们的教师承诺最大限度地减少这种移动的官僚障碍。绝大多数前受训者都有良好的出版记录，并受雇于生物医学研究和/或教学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continued support is requested for an ongoing program in graduate research training in Genetics at the University of Oregon. Our goal is to produce creative, rigorous, and experimentally skilled scientists with an appreciation for the evolutionary, molecular, cellular, and developmental contexts of gene function and heredity. We aim to help students develop the skills to lead research programs of their own, communicate science to the lay public, and teach the next generation of geneticists. Research training within an active laboratory provides the backbone of our program. We ensure a solid intellectual foundation by requiring trainees to take graduate level coursework in three core areas (molecular genetics, developmental genetics, and evolutionary genetics) and in statistics. Coursework is complemented in the first year by an intensive laboratory rotation program. We surround the lab and coursework with a wealth of enhancing and broadening experiences -- teaching, journal clubs, student research talks, seminar series by outside speakers, and more. Funds are requested for nine predoctoral trainee positions within a program that includes approximately 55 Ph.D. students and 23 faculty. The program brings together students and faculty from three research institutes (Institute of Molecular Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and Institute of Ecology and Evolution) and three Departments (Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology). The program fosters interdisciplinary training via its highly collaborative group of training faculty, whose expertise spans the breadth of classical genetics, genomics, and allied disciplines. Students move easily between laboratories in the different departments and institutes due to the close proximity of all GTG faculty labs and to our faculty's commitment to minimizing bureaucratic barriers to such movement. The vast majority of former trainees have strong publication records and are employed in biomedical research and/or teaching.