International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System, July 1-7, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey

0836346M。Akay本项目将支持于2009年7月1日至7日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔的Bogazici大学举办的第8届国际生物复杂性从基因到系统的暑期学校。这个暑期班的主要目的是让生物科学和生物工程本科生和研究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传播。这些方法对有兴趣从事生物学、生物分子工程和生物工程研究的计算机科学和数学专业的学生也很有帮助，因为暑期班提供了对生物科学基本挑战的特殊见解。NSF的资金将用于支持10名美国高级本科生和研究生，以及7名暑期学校教员。暑期学校将使用专家教师面向生物科学学生的讲座，重点是神经科学和神经工程中数学和计算挑战的相对较新的方法，以及计算神经科学、神经信息学和神经技术的新方向。除了这些讲座，暑期班将包括两个小时的小组讨论，本科生和研究生积极参与，重点是(1)系统生物学：进展和挑战；(2)未来方向：从基因组到生理学。此外，学生将在海报环节中介绍他们在系和研究所的研究活动，这将促进对生物学和计算方法的讨论。广播者的影响非常强烈。暑期班将促进学生、工程师、数学家、计算机科学家和医学研究人员之间进一步的跨学科研究和合作，并将帮助确定复杂生物科学和生物工程研究的新的、具有挑战性的方向。该奖项由生物医学工程计划和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

0836346M. AkayThis project will support the 8th International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System during July 1-7, 2009 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 NSF funds will be used to support ten US senior undergraduate and graduate students, and seven summer school faculty members.The summer school will use lectures, oriented toward biological science students, by expert faculty and will focus on the relatively new approaches of the mathematical and computational challenges in neuroscience and neural engineering and the new directions in computational neuroscience, neural informatics and neurotechnology. 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 (1) systems biology: advances and challenges; and (2) the Future directions: from genome to physiome. In addition, students will present their research activities in their departments and institutes in a poster session, which will facilitate discussion of both the biology and computational approaches. The broaders impacts are very strong. The summer school will stimulate further interdisciplinary research and collaborations among students, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and medical researchers, and will help in identifying new, challenging directions in complex biological science and bioengineering research.This award is co-funded by the Biomedical Engineering Program and Office of International Science and Engineering.