Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华州遗传学博士前培训计划有25年的历史，期间有65名学生获得博士学位。该计划目前有55名教师和44名学生，是我校生物科学倡议努力的旗舰研究生计划。自上次竞争性提交此申请以来，我们的教师人数增加了12人，入学学生人数从平均每年6人增加到现在的9人。我们在学生保留率、准时毕业率、出版物和奖项、博士后奖学金和研究密集型大学的教师职位的职业发展方面有着令人羡慕的记录。特别值得注意的是，我们的项目在建立校园比较基因组学和生物信息学研究生课程方面发挥了核心作用，特别是通过将计算遗传学子课程纳入遗传学博士学位，已经有两名学生毕业并担任教职。在此更新申请中，我们要求延续我们目前可用的六个奖学金名额，以服务我们的高质量和富有成效的学生骨干。这个应用程序将概述我们在过去25年的项目存在的成功，我们目前的结构和未来的改进计划。我们有一群有凝聚力的学生与广泛而多样化的教师一起工作，他们代表了遗传学社区的各个方面。最后，我们在教师和行政层面都有稳定的项目领导，在研究生院有非常强大的支持，这不仅有助于确保项目的持续成功，而且在科学事业越来越具有挑战性的时候进一步加强。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics in Iowa has a 25-year history during which 65 students have graduated with a Ph.D. The program currently serves 55 faculty and 44 students and has been a flagship graduate program in the Biosciences initiative efforts on our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application our faculty has grown by 12 with the number of entering students increasing from an average of 6 per year to now 9. We have an enviable record of student retention, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards and career advancement to postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions at research-intensive universities. Of particular note is the central role that our program has played in building graduate programs in comparative genomics and bioinformatics on campus and, in particular, by incorporating a computational genetics subtrack option into the Genetics Ph.D. that has already graduated two students into faculty positions. In this renewal application we request a continuation of the six fellowship slots we currently have available to serve our cadre of high quality and productive students. This application will outline our successes over the last 25 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements. We have a cohesive group of students working with a broad and diverse collection of faculty who represent the genetics community in all its facets. Finally we have stable program leadership at both the faculty and administrative level and very strong support within the graduate college that helps to ensure not only the continued success of the program but its further strengthening at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.