Collaborative Research: International Physics of Living Systems Graduate Research Network

国际生命系统物理学（iPoLS）研究生研究网络（GRN）将地球仪的研究生联系起来，他们正在使用物理系统的方法和概念来解开生命动力学的奥秘。这个固有的跨学科领域在过去十年中经历了巨大的增长，部分原因是社区的努力，如iPoLS研究生研究网络。该网络能够创建连贯的培训计划，对等学习和信息传递论坛，并为美国大学在这一领域增加教师和学生人数的努力提供支持。目前的项目将继续在美国建立网络，其中一个主要目标仍然是促进跨国界的沟通与合作。PI计划利用网络资源来分享与教育有关的最佳做法，并参与建设和支持多元化社区。他们将根据几个网络节点的成功经验，提出从代表性不足的群体中招聘本科生实习生的创新计划。PI将共同探索倡导PoLS研究和PoLS研究人员的独特能力的机制，以更广泛的生物学和生物医学社区，包括在细胞生物学，神经科学和基础癌症研究的主要社会会议上创建基于PoLS的会议。 该项目由物理学部的生命系统物理学项目和分子与细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理学小组共同支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The international Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) graduate research network (GRN) connects graduate students across the globe who are using methods and concepts of physical systems to unravel the mysteries of living dynamics. This inherently interdisciplinary field has undergone a tremendous growth over the past decade, partly as a result of community efforts such as the iPoLS graduate research network. This network enables the creation of coherent training programs, forums for peer-to-peer learning and information transfer, and provides support for efforts to grow the faculty and student numbers in this field at US universities. The current project will continue building the network in the US, and one of the major goals continues to be fostering communication and cooperation across national boundaries. The PIs plan to use network resources to share best practices related both to education and into the building and support of a diverse community. They will present innovative plans for the recruitment of undergraduate interns from underrepresented groups, based on the successful experience of several of the network nodes. The PIs will collectively explore mechanisms for advocating for the unique capabilities of PoLS research and PoLS researchers to the broader biology and biomedicine communities, including the creation of PoLS-based sessions at major society meetings in cell biology, neuroscience, and fundamental cancer research. This project is being jointly supported by the Physics of Living Systems program in the Division of Physics and the Molecular Biophysics Cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.