MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM AT VANDERBILT

本提案要求为范德比尔特大学分子生物物理学培训项目继续提供资金，在提议的资助期开始时为8名受训人员，在最后一年增加到10名。35名培训教师提供培训机会，使用广泛的物理，化学和计算方法，解决分子生物物理学中的各种问题。虽然该计划吸引了来自七个不同部门的培训教师，但它植根于一个高度合作的研究和教育努力的既定网络。受训者有机会获得由培训教员代表的七个学科领域的博士学位：生物化学、化学、分子生物学、分子生理学和生物物理学、病理学、药理学或物理学，或者他们可以发展分子生物物理学个人研究的博士课程。所有受训者，不分专业领域，都要完成一门核心课程。核心课程的目的是为选择生物科学专业的学员提供比其他专业更深入的物理科学基础，并为选择物理科学专业的学员提供比其他专业学生更全面的生物科学知识。作为核心课程的一部分，所有学员都参加了分子生物物理学研究生研讨会。分子生物物理学研究生研讨会被视为该计划的焦点，在这里，采用不同方法解决分子生物物理学问题的学员形成了一种共同的语言，并相互交流思想。

This proposal requests funds for continuation of the Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Vanderbilt University at the level of eight trainees at the beginning of the proposed funding period, rising to ten in the final year. Thirty-five training faculty offer training opportunities in a wide range of problems in Molecular Biophysics using a broad spectrum of physical, chemical, and computation approaches. Though the Program draws its training faculty from seven different departments, its is rooted in an established network of highly collaborative research and educational efforts. Trainees are offered the opportunity to earn a Ph.D. in any of the seven disciplinary areas represented by the training faculty: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Pathology, Pharmacology, or Physics, or they may develop a Ph.D. program of Individual Studies in Molecular Biophysics. All trainees, without regard to area of concentration, complete a core curriculum. The intent of the core curriculum is to provide trainees who choose a biological sciences concentration a deeper grounding in the physical sciences than is typical for those areas and to provide trainees who choose a physical sciences concentration a more thorough exposure to the biological sciences than is usual for students in those areas. As part of the core curriculum, all trainees participate in the Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biophysics. The Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biophysics is viewed as a focal point for the Program, in which trainees who employ diverse approaches to problems in Molecular Biophysics develop a common language and cross-fertilize each other's ideas.