Collaborative Research: PoLS Student Research Network

合作研究：PoLS 学生研究网络

• 批准号: 1522467
• 负责人: Simon Mochrie
• 金额: $ 116.65万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1522467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; PoLS; Student; Network

This collaborative research project, consisting of four institutions (Rice, Yale, UIUC and Princeton) aims to continue the Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network (PoLS SRN). This network has been in existence for four years and has had a dramatic impact on many graduate students, both in the US and abroad, working on the application of physical science techniques to living systems. These students now can participate in a global community that can help deal with the many complex issues involved in conducting research in such a new and inherently multidisciplinary field. These issues range from proper training, to gaining a broad perspective, to accessing technical expertise that may not be available at their home institution. In addition to the obvious broader impacts related to training of a research workforce, there are other broad impacts of this plan. Via the interaction of one of the PoLS nodes (Rice) with the biomedical community in Houston, students and faculty will be exposed to possible avenues whereby physics can contribute to human health issues. Funds to attract students from under-represented groups to network meetings will be available through the new funds administered by the newly proposed network coordinator. Also deas vetted by the PoLS SRN will be adapted to create student networks in other areas of science and engineering.There is by now little disagreement with the general notion that concepts and methods from physics have been a critical contributor to the increased understanding of the living world, and that its importance will be growing as the scientific world moves toward an ever more quantitative and predictive form of biology. Thus, the physics community clearly needs to train a new generation of scientists who can lead this effort, scientists who have the right mix of physics/mathematics rigor and broad knowledge of living systems from molecular scales on up. The PoLS SRN aims at creating a community of graduate students who can collectively help themselves and their mentors accelerate and enhance this training process. This is being done by a mix of in-person and virtual modes of communication, and this proposal is a plan to continue and expand these efforts; it will reach more students, improve the social networking portals, and make use of the complementary research agendas of the different network nodes to provide broad technical expertise. Doing all of this, will boost the intellectual level of the entire research field and convince the best students that the Physics of Living Systems is truly the most exciting research frontier in 21st century science.This project is being jointly supported by the Physics of Living Systems program in the Division of Physics, the Molecular Biophysics Cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, the Chemistry of Life Processes program in the Division of Chemistry, and the Cellular Dynamics and Function Program in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

这个合作研究项目，由四个机构（赖斯，耶鲁大学，UIUC和普林斯顿大学）的目的是继续生命系统学生研究网络（PoLS SRN）的物理。这个网络已经存在了四年，对美国和国外的许多研究生产生了巨大的影响，他们致力于将物理科学技术应用于生命系统。这些学生现在可以参加一个全球社区，可以帮助处理在这样一个新的和固有的多学科领域进行研究所涉及的许多复杂问题。这些问题包括适当的培训、获得广阔的视野以及获得其所在机构可能无法提供的技术专门知识。除了与培训研究人员有关的明显的广泛影响外，该计划还有其他广泛影响。通过PoLS节点之一（赖斯）与休斯顿生物医学界的互动，学生和教师将接触到物理学可以为人类健康问题做出贡献的可能途径。将通过新提议的网络协调员管理的新基金提供资金，吸引代表人数不足群体的学生参加网络会议。此外，PoLS SRN审查的deas将适用于创建其他科学和工程领域的学生网络。到目前为止，人们对物理学的概念和方法是增加对生活世界的理解的关键贡献者这一普遍观点几乎没有异议，随着科学世界朝着更加定量和预测的生物学形式发展，它的重要性将越来越大。因此，物理学界显然需要培养新一代能够领导这一努力的科学家，这些科学家既具备物理学/数学的严谨性，又具备从分子尺度上对生命系统的广泛知识。PoLS SRN旨在创建一个研究生社区，他们可以集体帮助自己和他们的导师加速和加强这一培训过程。这是通过面对面和虚拟交流模式的混合来实现的，本提案是一项继续和扩大这些努力的计划;它将接触到更多的学生，改善社交网络门户，并利用不同网络节点的互补研究议程提供广泛的技术专长。通过以上工作，将提高整个研究领域的学术水平，并使最优秀的学生相信生命系统物理学是21世纪世纪科学中最令人兴奋的研究前沿。该项目由物理学系生命系统物理学项目、分子和细胞生物科学系分子生物物理学集群、化学系的生命过程化学课程，以及综合有机系统系的细胞动力学和功能课程。