REU Site: Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Biomaterials

这个网站是由国防部与NSF REU计划共同资助的。除生物科学局外，它还得到数学和物理科学局(MPS)、计算机和信息科学与工程局(CEISE)和社会、行为和经济科学局(SBE)的支持。分子生物学的未来发展在很大程度上依赖于物理科学和计算科学交叉的技术和思想。在纳米尺度上探测材料的实验技术提供了关于生命系统的有前途的新观点，而基于纯理论和计算方法的建模方法提供了对生物系统的新见解。我们的项目提供了为期一周的分子生物学技术实践介绍，然后是为期九周的实验室指导研究实习。这项研究针对的是生物学中跨越人类学、生物学、计算机科学、材料物理和材料化学等学科的基本问题。学生将通过与参与的教师讨论他们正在进行的研究、科学的职业选择和道德规范，进一步参与跨学科的想法。在这种情况下，REU计划将寻求激发学生从事科学研究的兴趣，并使学生参与跨学科的生物学研究，特别是强调定量方法。学生们将有机会享受丰富多样的华盛顿特区S文化和科学场地。9名有志于在生命、计算和物理领域从事研究事业的学生将被选入这个为期10周的项目。欲了解更多信息，请联系罗伯特·P·唐纳森或马克·E·里夫斯

This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. It is also supported by the Directorates of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), in addition to the Directorate for Biological Sciences. Future advances in molecular biology depend critically on technology and ideas crossing over from the physical sciences and the computational sciences. Experimental techniques that probe materials at the nanoscale-level offer promising new views of living systems and modeling approaches based on pure theoretical and computational approaches offer new insights into biological systems. Our program provides a week-long hands-on introduction to molecular biology techniques and then a nine-week mentored research internship in laboratories. The research is aimed at fundamental questions in Biology that cut across the disciplines of Anthropology, Biology, Computer Science, Materials Physics and Materials Chemistry. Students will be further engaged in interdisciplinary ideas through discussions with participating faculty about their on-going research, scientific career options and ethics. In this context the REU program will seek to stimulate student interest in pursuing scientific research and to engage students in cross-disciplinary biological research, with particular emphasis on quantitative approaches. Students will be provided opportunities to enjoy the rich variety of Washington D.C.'s cultural and scientific venues. Nine students, who aspire to pursue research careers in the life, computational, and physical sciences will be selected for this ten week program. For more information contact Robert P. Donaldson or Mark E. Reeves 202-994-4039, robdon@gwu.edu, and visit http://bioinformatics.gwu.edu/reu.