EMSW21-RTG: Enhanced Training and Recruitment in Mathematical Biology

这项研究和培训补助金将利用杜克大学数学系的数学生物学计划，以提高美国国民进入数学科学的招聘。其目标是吸引更多优秀的本科生进入数学生物学，在研究生阶段提供优秀的和扩展的数学生物学家培训，并增加年轻的博士后研究经验的多样性。数学生物学家本科生、研究生和博士后将被整合到数学系六个垂直整合的跨学科研究小组中的一个或多个：（1）肾脏生理学（Harold和Anita莱顿）;（2）心脏电生理学（大卫谢弗）;（3）系统生物学和基因组学（John Harer）;（4）图像分割和背侧闭合（Stephanos Venakides）;（5）细胞代谢的数学模型（Michael Reed）;（6）数据驱动的推理和生物结构（Jonathan Mattingly）。六个研究小组的教师在本科生，研究生和博士后研究项目的成功指导，以及招聘和培训妇女和其他代表性不足的群体方面有着非常良好的记录。这些指导和招聘活动的成功是这些教师的重要优先事项，是这项研究培训补助金的中心目标。 为了实现该计划的目标，本科生将在暑期由计划教师指导进行研究，更多的研究生将被招募并在新的研究生课程中接受培训，博士后研究员将与计划教师一起进行研究。此外，每年都会有一个夏季研讨会，针对东南部小型学院的学生，他们可能对研究生学位知之甚少，也没有机会学习数学生物学。该方案的一个特别目标是招募妇女和其他代表性不足的群体进入数学科学。由于许多教师进行研究，在数学生物学，并接近杜克医疗中心和杜克学校的环境，数学系在杜克是一个很好的位置，研究数学生物学，并实现目标，吸引美国国民进入数学科学。

This Research and Training Grant will use the mathematical biology program of the Mathematics Department at Duke University to enhance the recruitment of American nationals into the mathematical sciences. The goals are to attract more excellent undergraduates into mathematical biology, to provide excellent and expanded training of mathematical biologists at the graduate level, and to increase the diversity of research experiences of young post-Ph.D. mathematical biologists. The undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be integrated into one or more of the six vertically integrated interdisciplinary research groups in the Mathematics Department: (1) Kidney physiology (Harold and Anita Layton); (2) Electrophysiology of the heart (David Schaeffer); (3) Systems biology and genomics (John Harer); (4) Image segmentation and dorsal closure (Stephanos Venakides); (5) Mathematical models of cell metabolism (Michael Reed); (6) Data driven inference and biological structure (Jonathan Mattingly). The faculty members in the six research groups have very good track records in successful mentoring of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research projects, as well as recruiting and training women and other under-represented groups. The success of these mentoring and recruitment activities is an important priority for these faculty members and is the central goal of this Research Training Grant. To achieve the goals of the program, the undergraduates will conduct research in the summers mentored by program faculty, more graduate students will be recruited and trained in new graduate courses, and postdoctoral fellows will conduct research with program faculty. In addition, each year there will be a summer workshop that targets students at small colleges in the Southeast who may have little knowledge about graduate degrees and few opportunities to study mathematical biology. A particular goal of the program is to recruit women and other under-represented groups into the mathematical sciences. Because of the many faculty members conducting research in mathematical biology, and the proximity of the Duke Medical Center and the Duke School of the Environment, the Mathematics Department at Duke is an excellent location to study mathematical biology and to achieve the goal of attracting American nationals into the mathematical sciences.