Training Program in Developmental Biology

博士前发展生物学培训计划(DBTP)的核心任务是产生 高素质的独立研究科学家，受过广泛的跨学科方法的培训 发育生物学问题。这一使命与芝加哥大学的理念一致 生物科学部(BSD)，旨在避免学科之间的人为界限和 鼓励广泛的互动和合作。课程的跨学科和协作性 BSD的结构增强了DBTP：所有临床和基础科学系的研究人员都 这些机构近在咫尺，在一个行政和智力框架下团结在一起。DBTP培训师 是一支由36名资金雄厚的研究人员组成的充满活力的团队，其中包括经验丰富的资深教职员工和有才华的 初级教员，总部设在九个BSD系(基础科学和临床)和两个相邻的物理科学系 各部门。 为了培养出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和新兴优势之上。我们 在模式生物的遗传学、发育的细胞基础方面具有良好的优势，以及 进化发育生物学。在这第二个资金期内，战略性的新员工使 计划扩大其在干细胞生物学、使用计算/建模/系统层面的研究优势 开发系统的方法，特别是发展神经生物学，这是一个正在 在芝加哥大学格罗斯曼神经科学研究所的积极影响下，量化 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：培训 助学金支持从他们进入学习的第二年开始，通常持续两年，条件是 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 这一数字将在3-5年级增加到5名实习生，以利用不断扩大的对以下领域感兴趣的学生群体 发育神经生物学。这样的受训人数将使我们能够高度挑剔，同时保持 临界队列规模。受训者受益于战略性设计的课程，其中包括六个 专门的发育生物学正式课程，定量训练的新要求，以及 广泛开展与补充培训有关的活动。在这些活动中有DBTP赞助的 发育生物学系列研讨会和期刊/数据进展俱乐部(加上相关的新通信 课程)，一年一度的静修，以及由DBTP赞助的定期学生研讨会。总而言之，DBTP 整合各种不同的培训方法，为发育生物学的未来领导者做准备 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.