SAVI: Student Research Network in the Physics of Living Systems (PoLS)

SAVI：生命系统物理学（PoLS）学生研究网络

• 批准号: 1219334
• 负责人: Eric Mazur
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1219334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAVI; Student; Research; Network; Physics

SAVI: Student Research Network in the Physics of Living Systems (PoLS)The goal of this project is for the PIs to join the Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network (PoLS SRN) to foster national and international interactions among scientists interested in research at the interpface of physics and biology. Harvard has a long tradition of supporting research and education at the interface of biology and physics with successful efforts originating from both physics and biology departments. One of the strengths of graduate student training at Harvard is the sheer breadth of Harvard's scientific community. Joining the PoLS network will leverage these diverse and often experimental experiences at Harvard at a national and international level to the benefit of other PoLS institutions. In return, Harvard efforts in the physics of living systems will benefit from complementary intellectual, educational and research activities at other PoLS institutions. The PIs also expect that the PoLS network will have synergistic effects at a purely local Harvard level, especially between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Physics Department, and the FAS Center for Systems Biology, which host the participating faculty. The future of life sciences lies is in the hand of young researchers, and increasingly in the hands of scientists whose training spans multiple disciplines including physics, engineering, and computer sciences. The PoLS network brings together universities in the US and abroad who share the vision that research and training partnerships across institutions and countries will harness previously unexploited complementary intellectual and educational strengths. The PIs share this view and propose that Harvard join the PoLS network. Harvard's participation will create new student-led collaborations and will strengthen existing ones, leading to new insights into general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior, and evolution of cells and organisms. The next generation of researchers working in the life sciences needs to be versed in both the methodologies of the physical sciences and the experimental practices of molecular biology. Bridging the cultures of physics and biology resembles (and benefits from) bridging other cultural differences, for example between institutions and countries. Traveling to another laboratory for a research internship or to a workshop exposes students to a different intellectual environment and to new problems and techniques. These encounters catalyze a profound change in students' appreciation for approaches outside their original expertise and motivate them to be more fluent in the language of a different field. The proposed trans-institutional and trans-national network will create a new community that fosters students creativity and encourages their curiosity and fearlessness in developing new approaches. For the same reasons students from underrepresented minority and disadvantaged backgrounds will particularly benefit from the proposed activities in the PoLS network. This award is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is being co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering as well as by the Physics of Living Systems Program in the Physics Division, the Molecular Biophysics Program in Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in MPS.

SAVI：生命系统物理学学生研究网络（PoLS）该项目的目标是让PI加入生命系统物理学学生研究网络（PoLS SRN），以促进对物理学和生物学研究感兴趣的科学家之间的国家和国际互动。 哈佛在支持生物学和物理学的研究和教育方面有着悠久的传统，这些研究和教育的成功源于物理学和生物学系。哈佛培养研究生的优势之一是哈佛科学界的广泛性。加入PoLS网络将在国家和国际层面上利用哈佛这些多样化且经常是实验性的经验，以使其他PoLS机构受益。作为回报，哈佛在生命系统物理学方面的努力将受益于其他PoLS机构的补充智力，教育和研究活动。PI还期望PoLS网络将在纯粹的本地哈佛水平上产生协同效应，特别是在工程与应用科学学院、哈佛物理系和FAS系统生物学中心之间，这些中心是参与教师的所在地。生命科学的未来掌握在年轻研究人员手中，而且越来越多地掌握在科学家手中，他们的培训涵盖了物理学，工程学和计算机科学等多个学科。PoLS网络汇集了美国和国外的大学，他们共同的愿景是，跨机构和国家的研究和培训伙伴关系将利用以前未开发的互补性智力和教育优势。PI同意这一观点，并建议哈佛加入PoLS网络。哈佛的参与将创造新的学生主导的合作，并将加强现有的，导致新的见解的一般原则，有助于解释结构，行为和细胞和生物体的进化。在生命科学领域工作的下一代研究人员需要精通物理科学的方法和分子生物学的实验实践。物理学和生物学文化之间的桥梁类似于（并受益于）弥合其他文化差异，例如机构和国家之间的文化差异。前往另一个实验室进行研究实习或参加研讨会，使学生接触到不同的知识环境以及新的问题和技术。这些接触促进了学生对他们原有专业知识之外的方法的欣赏发生了深刻的变化，并激励他们更流利地使用不同领域的语言。拟议的跨机构和跨国网络将创建一个新的社区，培养学生的创造力，并鼓励他们的好奇心和无畏精神，在开发新的方法。出于同样的原因，来自代表性不足的少数民族和处境不利背景的学生将特别受益于PoLS网络中拟议的活动。该奖项被指定为跨虚拟研究所科学（SAVI）奖项，由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室以及物理系生命系统物理项目、分子生物物理项目共同资助。分子和细胞生物科学，以及MPS多学科活动办公室。