Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华大学遗传学博士前培训项目有40年的历史，期间有80多名学生获得博士学位。该项目目前为我们校园四个学院和18个学术部门的67名教师和44名学生提供服务。自上次竞争性提交此申请以来，我们的跨学科教师人数增加了12人，平均每年有8名新学生进入该计划。我们在学生保留率、准时毕业率、出版物和奖项、以及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。我们看到，在遗传学博士学位中，计算遗传学这个新生的子专业正在发展壮大，现在已经有7名学生从这个专业毕业，其中4名已经担任教职。我们最近在学生群体多样化方面取得了进展，并采取了一些策略来建立少数民族学生的核心，并提高了这些学生乃至整个项目中所有学生的保留率。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。这份申请将概述我们在过去40年的项目存在中的成功，我们目前的结构，以及未来在多样性，毕业时间和指导方面的改进计划。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，进一步加强和多样化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics at the University of Iowa has a 40-year history during which more than 80 students have graduated with a Ph.D. The program currently serves 67 faculty and 44 students in four colleges and 18 academic departments across our campus. Since the time of the last competitive submission of this application, our interdisciplinary faculty has grown by 12 with an average of 8 new students entering the program each year. We have an enviable record of student retention, on-time graduation rates, publications and awards, as well as 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. We have seen growth and solidification of the nascent Computational Genetics subtrack option in the Genetics Ph.D., with now seven students that have already graduated from the track, four of which are already in faculty positions. We have made recent progress in diversifying our student population, and incorporated several strategies to build on a nucleus of minority students, as well as to enhance the retention of these and indeed all students in the program. 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 40 years of program existence, our current structure, and plans for future improvements in diversity, graduation times and mentoring. 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 and diversification at a time when scientific careers are proving increasingly challenging.