DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM

发育生物学培训计划

• 批准号: 6625179
• 负责人: Robert K. HERMAN
• 金额: $ 11.95万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-29 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6625179
• 关键词: DEVELOPMENTAL; BIOLOGY; TRAINING; PROGRAM

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): The field of developmental biology has matured in recent years, largely through the integration of much of the biological sciences, including genetics, cell biology, embryology, physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and evolutionary biology. An understanding of development may well be fundamental to much of medicine and may ultimately contribute important information to many problems, ranging from congenital defects to senescence. The focus for developmental biology at the University of Minnesota is provided by the DBC, which is based in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development (DGCB&D), an all-university department within both the School of Medicine and the College of Biological Sciences. However, the DBC embraces members from other departments within the University such as Neuroscience and Plant Biology. The DBC organizes a popular annual University of Minnesota Developmental Biology Symposium, runs a series of evening research seminars in developmental biology where graduate students and postdoctoral researchers present their work, and promotes interactions and collaborations among developmental biologists at the University of Minnesota. The trainers are all members of the Center and work in diverse areas of developmental biology using many different model organisms, including mice, chickens, zebrafish, Xenopus, Drosophila, C. elegans, Dictyostelium, and Arabidopsis, as well as humans. The principal graduate program for developmental biology trainees is the Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, and Genetics (MCDB&G) graduate program. This program is built around strong core graduate courses in laboratory techniques, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, literature analysis, and laboratory rotations in diverse systems. The trainers have strong research programs and strong records of commitment to graduate and postdoctoral training. Eight predoctoral trainees will be chosen for training grant support, largely from the pool of graduate students in MCDB&G, but possibly also from other graduate programs, such as neuroscience and biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics. Trainees will be supported for one to three years, after they have begun their thesis work in the laboratories of the trainers. The training laboratories and core facilities are all well equipped.

描述（由申请人提供）：发育生物学领域近年来已经成熟，主要是通过许多生物科学的整合，包括遗传学、细胞生物学、胚胎学、生理学、分子生物学、生物化学和进化生物学。 对发育的理解很可能是许多医学的基础，并可能最终为许多问题（从先天缺陷到衰老）提供重要信息。 明尼苏达大学发育生物学的重点由 DBC 提供，该系设在遗传学、细胞生物学和发育系 (DGCB&D)，该系是医学院和生物学院的全校院系。科学。然而，DBC 也包含来自大学其他部门的成员，例如神经科学和植物生物学。 DBC 组织了受欢迎的明尼苏达大学发育生物学年度研讨会，举办了一系列发育生物学晚间研究研讨会，研究生和博士后研究人员展示他们的工作，并促进明尼苏达大学发育生物学家之间的互动和合作。培训师都是该中心的成员，在发育生物学的不同领域工作，使用许多不同的模型生物，包括小鼠、鸡、斑马鱼、爪蟾、果蝇、线虫、盘基网柄菌和拟南芥以及人类。发育生物学实习生的主要研究生课程是分子、细胞、发育生物学和遗传学 (MCDB&G) 研究生课程。 该项目围绕实验室技术、分子生物学、遗传学、细胞生物学、发育生物学、文献分析和不同系统中的实验室轮换等强大的核心研究生课程而建立。 培训师拥有强大的研究项目和对研究生和博士后培训的良好承诺记录。 将选择八名博士前学员来获得培训资助支持，他们主要来自 MCDB&G 的研究生，但也可能来自其他研究生项目，例如神经科学和生物化学、分子生物学和生物物理学。 学员在培训师实验室开始论文工作后，将获得一到三年的支持。 培训实验室和核心设施设备齐全。