BBSI Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute at Iowa State University

该奖项支持一个为期三年的连续奖项，即在Robert Jernigan博士的指导下，延续NIBIB-NSF生物工程和生物信息学暑期研究所(BBSI)计划，该计划名为爱荷华州立大学(ISU)生物信息学和计算系统生物学暑期研究所(CSBSI)。生物化学、生物物理学和分子生物学、遗传学、发育和细胞生物学、统计学、电气和计算机工程、计算机科学和植物病理学系，以及位于ISU的劳伦斯·H·贝克生物信息学和生物统计中心(BCBBS)将继续主办以前资助的NIH-NSF生物信息学和计算系统生物学暑期研究所，并举办为期三年的为期九周的暑期教育和研究项目。学院每年夏天将资助15名高水平本科生和低水平研究生，在整个获奖期内共资助45名学生。这个项目的智力价值在于它的目标是向高水平的本科生和低水平的研究生介绍计算机科学、统计学和数学在回答综合生物学中出现的系统范围的生物学问题时的使用。更广泛的目标是让这些学生有能力识别和解决计算和系统生物学中的重要研究问题，并培养他们在这些领域追求职业生涯的能力。该研究所将提供为期两周的强化教学课程，重点是基因组学、生物信息学和计算生物学及其在遗传学、分子生物学和系统生物学中的应用。CSBSI的更广泛影响将体现在它有能力增加生物信息学和计算生物学方面的训练有素的人才库，方法是教授学生系统和计算生物学的基础知识，提供广泛的研究经验，并培训其他学者，使他们能够在这些学科上指导他们的学生。由研究人员开发的课程材料、实验室项目和其他教学材料将在研究所使用，工程师、科学家和教育工作者将通过互联网免费获得。项目团队还将使用这些材料在会议上提供教程和研讨会，并在选定的四年制大学进行演讲。该项目由生物科学局(BIO)/生物基础设施部(DBI)/植物基因组研究计划、工程部(ENG)/工程教育和中心部(EEC)以及国家卫生研究院/国家生物医学成像和生物工程研究所(NIBIB)共同资助。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI) Program, entitled, Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute (CSBSI) at Iowa State University (ISU) under the direction of Dr. Robert Jernigan. The Departments of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Statistics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Plant Pathology, and the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics (BCBBS) at ISU will continue to host the previously funded NIH-NSF Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute and host a nine week summer education and research program for three years. The Institute will support 15 upper level undergraduates and lower-level graduate students each summer for a total of 45 students throughout the duration of the award. The intellectual merit of this program lies in its goal is to introduce upper level undergraduate and lower level graduate students to the use of computer science, statistics and mathematics in answering systems-wide biological questions emerging in integrated biology. The wider goal is to give these students the ability to identify and tackle important research problems in computational and systems biology and to encrouage them to pursue careers in these fields. The institute will feature a two week intensive instructional course focusing on genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology with applications to genetics, molecular biology, and systems biology. The broader impacts of the CSBSI will be demonstrated in its ability to increase the pool of trained people in bioinformatics and computational biology by instructing students in the fundamentals of systems and computational biology, providing extended research experiences, and by training other academics so that they can instruct their students in these subjects. The course materials, laboratory projects and other didactic materials developed by the investigators for use in the Institute will be freely available to engineers, scientists and educators over the Internet. The project team will also use this material to offer tutorials and workshops at conferences and to give lectures at selected 4-year colleges.This program is being co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)/Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)/Plant Genome Research Program, the Directorate for Engineering (ENG)/Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).