International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System to Gene, July 1-8, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

CBET-0732231 Akay 该项目提议支持2007年7月在土耳其伊斯坦布尔Bogazici大学举办的从系统到基因的生物复杂性国际暑期学校。这个暑期学校的主要目标是让本科生和研究生生物科学和生物工程专业的学生接触到系统生物学中数学和计算挑战的相对较新的方法，以及计算生物学，生物信息学和分子工程研究的新方向，并促进这些数学和计算工具在生物科学中的快速扩散。这些方法也将有助于那些对生物学、生物分子工程和生物工程研究感兴趣的计算机科学和数学专业的学生，因为暑期学校提供了对生物科学基本挑战的独特见解。暑期学校采用讲座，面向生物科学专业的学生，由专家教师，将专注于生物数据挖掘和知识发现，可用于了解高度相互关联和复杂的生物系统。除了这些讲座，暑期学校将包括2个两小时的小组讨论，与本科生和研究生的积极参与，专注于计算生物学，生物信息学和分子工程和科学的未来发展。此外，学生们还将在一个海报会议上展示他们在各自部门和研究所的研究活动，这将促进生物学和计算方法的讨论。生物医学工程项目和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助这个暑期学校。

CBET-0732231 Akay This project proposes to support the International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System to Gene in July 2007 at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. The main objective of this summer school is to expose undergraduate and graduate biological science and bioengineering students to the relatively new approaches of the mathematical and computational challenges in Systems Biology and the new directions in computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular engineering research and to facilitate rapid diffusion of these mathematical and computational tools in the biological sciences. These methods will be helpful, also, to students in computer science and mathematics who are interested in pursuing research in biology, biomolecular engineering and bioengineering, since the summer school provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biological sciences.The summer school uses lectures, oriented toward biological science students, by expert faculty and will focus on the biological data mining and knowledge discovery that can be used to understand highly interconnected and complex biological systems. In addition to these lectures, the summer school will include 2 two-hour panel discussion, with active participation of undergraduate and graduate students, focused on future developments in computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular engineering and science. In addition, students will present their research activities in their departments and institutes in a culminating poster session, which will facilitate discussion of both the biology and computational approaches.The Biomedical Engineering Program and Office of International Science and Engineering are co-funding this summer school.