REU Site: Quantitative Rules of Life: General Theories across Biological Systems

REU 网站：生命的定量规则：跨生物系统的一般理论

• 批准号: 2349052
• 负责人: Christopher Kempes
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Quantitative; Rules; Life

This REU Site award to the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), located in Santa Fe, NM, will support the training of 8 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2024-2026. It is anticipated that a total of 24 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or from an under-represented group, will be trained in the program. Students chosen for this program will have a unique opportunity to participate in frontier research centered on the Quantitative Rules of Life. The independence and agency afforded by the program will expose student researchers to key questions and emerging research directions, engage them in novel, impactful research, and encourage the pursuit of their scientific ideas. SFI will provide a network of collaboration and support extending beyond the program. An online tool will be used to assess the effectiveness of the program.The program aims to meet the frontier of biology by developing new cross-cutting theoretical tools that draw on computer science, physics, and mathematics. Defining and understanding the Quantitative Rules of Life requires input from many disciplines, and SFI is an ideal home for such integration as a recognized leader in interdisciplinary research. Students will have ownership over the direction and approaches of their project and be guided through the research process by one of our expert mentors from among SFI’s faculty. Students will expand their understanding of the emerging and diverse science of universal laws in biology and contribute to meritorious, frontier research. This program will train students to apply common theoretical principles to identify laws that regulate multiple scales of biology, from single cells to organisms and entire ecosystems. Students will be selected by the mentor pool and the education office at the Santa Fe Institute. This and other student opportunities can be found via the NSF ETAP system. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate of Biological Sciences and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

这项授予新墨西哥州圣达菲的圣达菲学院(SFI)的REU SITE奖将在2024-2026年夏季期间支持8名学生进行为期10周的培训。预计共有24名学生将在该方案中接受培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校或代表性不足的群体。被选中参加这个项目的学生将有一个独特的机会参与以生活的数量规则为中心的前沿研究。该项目提供的独立性和代理性将使学生研究人员接触到关键问题和新兴的研究方向，让他们参与到新颖、有影响力的研究中，并鼓励他们追求科学思想。SFI将提供超越该计划的协作和支持网络。将使用一个在线工具来评估该计划的有效性。该计划旨在通过开发利用计算机科学、物理和数学的新的交叉理论工具来满足生物学的前沿。定义和理解生命的数量规则需要许多学科的投入，而SFI是作为跨学科研究公认的领导者进行这种整合的理想之地。学生将拥有他们项目的方向和方法的所有权，并由SFI教职员工中的一名专家导师指导整个研究过程。学生将扩大他们对生物学中新兴的和多样化的普遍规律科学的理解，并为有价值的前沿研究做出贡献。这个项目将训练学生应用共同的理论原理来确定调节从单个细胞到生物体和整个生态系统的多个生物学尺度的定律。学生将由导师池和圣达菲学院的教育办公室挑选。这个和其他学生的机会可以通过NSF ETAP系统找到。该项目由生物科学局的生物基础设施司和既定的激励竞争性研究计划(EPSCoR)共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。