IGERT: Integrating Nanotechnology with Cell Biology and Neuroscience

IGERT：将纳米技术与细胞生物学和神经科学相结合

• 批准号: 0549500
• 负责人: Marek Osinski
• 金额: $ 310万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549500&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Integrating; Nanotechnology; Cell; Biology

This IGERT award supports a broadly-based education and training program at the University of New Mexico that will enable students from various disciplines to develop new nanoscale imaging and sensing tools and to apply them in investigations of fundamental problems in cell biology and neuroscience. By infusing training in cell biology and neuroscience with training in the technological basis of chemistry, electrical engineering, and physics, the university will create an exciting learning environment in which to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities presented by the nanotechnology revolution. The program will include internships at national laboratories and industry, travel to national and international meetings, international collaboration combined with internship placements, and a web-based dissemination. The research component of the program will generate improved understanding of important and relatively unexplored biological processes, enabled by creation of new imaging and sensing instruments. To realize this goal, the program will capitalize on the existing strengths to develop new quantum-dot-based technologies coupled with hyperspectral and multiphoton microscopy that carry the potential to revolutionize research on genomic, cellular, and synaptic activities. The educational component of the program will emphasize collaboration across traditional academic disciplines, with co-advisors from cell biology/neuroscience and engineering/science fields, rotations between various laboratories with different research styles, and active interactions among students with different academic backgrounds. New courses developed under this project will lead to a Graduate Certificate Program in Biomedical Science and Engineering with Concentration in Nanotechnology, to be followed by a new PhD program in Systems Biology and Bioengineering. 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IGERT奖项支持新墨西哥州大学的一个基础广泛的教育和培训计划，该计划将使来自不同学科的学生能够开发新的纳米级成像和传感工具，并将其应用于细胞生物学和神经科学基本问题的调查。通过在细胞生物学和神经科学与化学，电气工程和物理学的技术基础的培训注入培训，大学将创造一个令人兴奋的学习环境，在其中准备学生的挑战和纳米技术革命所带来的机遇。该计划将包括在国家实验室和行业实习，前往国家和国际会议，国际合作与实习安置相结合，以及基于网络的传播。 该计划的研究部分将通过创建新的成像和传感仪器来提高对重要和相对未探索的生物过程的理解。为了实现这一目标，该计划将利用现有优势开发新的基于量子点的技术，结合高光谱和多光子显微镜，这些技术有可能彻底改变基因组、细胞和突触活动的研究。该计划的教育部分将强调跨传统学科的合作，与来自细胞生物学/神经科学和工程/科学领域的共同顾问，具有不同研究风格的各种实验室之间的轮换，以及具有不同学术背景的学生之间的积极互动。根据该项目开发的新课程将导致生物医学科学与工程研究生证书课程与纳米技术浓度，随后是系统生物学和生物工程的新博士课程。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。