TRAINING IN COMPARATIVE LUNG BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

加州大学戴维斯分校（UCD）比较呼吸生物学和医学中心（CCRBM）比较肺生物学和医学培训项目旨在每年为6名博士生和3名博士后提供成为肺研究独立研究者的机会。培训的持续时间将取决于受训人员个人之前的经验和过渡到他们自己独立的学术和/或研究职业的能力。在挑选候选人时，将特别注重少数族裔的招聘策略。博士预科生和博士后学员将从申请中心许多研究生小组项目和/或申请个别培训教员的候选人中选择，并提供与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训练活动上，重点是肺比较生物学和细胞和分子机制。教师导师将指导五个主要领域的研究培训：1)气道病理生理学；2)肺部毒理学和毒理学，包括吸入毒理学；3)干细胞生物学和再生肺生物学与医学；4)细胞信号传导与肺部分子生物学，5)肺部炎症与免疫学。培训方案包括有组织的核心课程，包括以下方面的研究培训：(a)科学伦理和论文和赠款撰写策略，包括统计；(b)肺病理生物学原理；(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，以及(f)干细胞生物学和再生医学。研究会议包括研讨会和工作进展会议，以评估实习生的进展。在整个培训过程中，我们组织了指导委员会，并强调职业规划，使项目能够个性化，以最好地实现每个学员的个人目标。该项目旨在利用加州大学戴维斯分校现有的优势，包括医学院和兽医学院肺病研究人员之间建立的良好合作，校园内的国家私人研究中心，校园内的杰克逊实验室小鼠生物学项目，吸入毒理学的先进设施，非常强大的肺部和重症监护医学临床项目，新成立的干细胞中心，并且有超过30年的研究培训经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of California, Davis (UCD) Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine (CCRBM) Training in Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine Program is designed to provide opportunities for 6 predoctoral and 3 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 and postdoctoral trainees will be selected from the pool of candidates applying to the Center's many graduate 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) stem cell biology and regenerative lung biology and medicine; 4) cell signaling and lung molecular 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; (e) transgenic cell and mouse technologies, and (f) stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Research conferences include seminars and work-in-progress sessions to assess trainee progress. Throughout the training program, guiding committee is organized and 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 Prirnate 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, newly established stem cell center, and an established track record of research training over a period of more than 30 years.