IGERT: Vertically Integrated Training with Genomics

IGERT：基因组学垂直整合培训

• 批准号: 1069157
• 负责人: Andrew Suarez
• 金额: $ 319.84万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1069157&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Vertically; Integrated; Training; Genomics

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award is built around two grand challenges in biology: 1) How do genomes interact with the environment to produce biological diversity? and 2) How are biological systems integrated from molecules to ecosystems? Our training model is aimed at preparing students so that they are empowered to learn how an organism?s traits emerge from, and are continually shaped by, a complex interplay of genetic information stored in DNA and environmental information that an organism experiences throughout its life. This training will equip students with the knowledge, tools and perspectives needed to address pressing scientific and societal problems, including: effects of climate change on agriculture and food security; responses of organisms and ecosystems to anthropogenic influences on landscapes; emergence of infectious diseases, and influences of genes on behavior.This proposal uses a ?back-to-the-future? educational model that asserts that the best way to use genomics to address grand challenges in biology is to have a graduate program that blends state-of-the-art training in genomics with an integrated, taxon-oriented, perspective. Our guiding principle is that to be able to use powerful new genomic resources as effectively as possible, students need to have strong foundation in the basic biology of the organisms they are studying. Another cornerstone of this IGERT is the recruiting and mentoring of underrepresented minorities into a scientific discipline. Because genomic topics often deal with provocative issues, students will also get training in scientific ethics and on how to communicate sensitive topics to the public.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

该综合研究生教育和研究实习 (IGERT) 奖项围绕生物学领域的两大挑战而设立：1) 基因组如何与环境相互作用以产生生物多样性？ 2）生物系统如何从分子到生态系统整合？我们的培训模式旨在帮助学生做好准备，使他们能够了解生物体的特征如何从存储在 DNA 中的遗传信息与生物体一生经历的环境信息的复杂相互作用中产生并不断形成。该培训将为学生提供解决紧迫的科学和社会问题所需的知识、工具和观点，包括：气候变化对农业和粮食安全的影响；生物体和生态系统对人为景观影响的反应；传染病的出现以及基因对行为的影响。该提案使用了“回到未来”的概念。这种教育模式主张，利用基因组学应对生物学领域重大挑战的最佳方式是开设研究生课程，将最先进的基因组学培训与综合的、面向分类群的视角相结合。我们的指导原则是，为了能够尽可能有效地利用强大的新基因组资源，学生需要在他们正在研究的生物体的基础生物学方面拥有坚实的基础。 IGERT 的另一个基石是招募和指导代表性不足的少数群体进入科学学科。 由于基因组主题通常涉及挑衅性问题，学生还将接受科学道德以及如何向公众传达敏感主题的培训。IGERT 是一个 NSF 范围内的项目，旨在应对美国博士生教育的挑战。具有跨学科背景、对所选学科有深入了解以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的科学家和工程师。该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革。