Core--Training

波士顿大学超级基金基础研究计划(BU SBRP)内的培训核心将在现有的两个主要培训计划的背景下工作，第一个是波士顿大学生物系内的NICHD培训计划“脊椎动物生殖的内分泌机制”，第二个是生物信息学的NSF赞助的大型综合研究生研究和培训(IGERT)计划，该计划是生物医学工程、生物、数学、计算机科学和化学系的联合努力。生物系内的其他几个培训项目也将作为资源。该中心明确回应了为生物医学科学的学生提供学习非生物医学领域的机会的需要，反之亦然。五个项目(三个生物医学项目和两个非生物医学项目)对外源生物的酶和类固醇受体位置的分子建模有重要的要求。因此，在生物和环境卫生领域，主要需要将计算部分整合到生物和环境卫生领域的博士前研究人员的培训中。候选人将从成功招募的人员中挑选出来，参加现有的竞争激烈的培训计划。每个学生将有两位导师，一位是工程(计算)科学，一位是实验(实验室)科学。将需要跨学科的课程和研讨会，并需要参与社区的外联核心。

The Training Core within the Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program (BU SBRP) will work in the settings of two primary existing training programs, the first an NICHD Training Program in "Endocrine Mechanisms in Vertebrate Reproduction," within the Department of Biology at Boston University, the second, large NSF- sponsored Integrated Graduate Research and Training (IGERT) program at Bioinformatics, a joint effort based in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science and Chemistry. Several other training programs within the Department of Biology will also serve as resources. The Core explicitly responds to the need to provide students of the biomedical sciences opportunities to learn about non-biomedical areas of study, and vice-versa. Five projects (compromising three biomedical and two non-biomedical projects) have significant requirements for molecular modeling of enzyme and steroid receptor sites for xenobiotics. Thus there is a major need for integrations of computational components into the training of the predoctoral students cohort within the BU SBRP and in the biological and environmental health fields in general. Candidates will be selected from successful recruits to the existing highly competitive training programs. Each student will have dual mentors, one in the engineering (computational) sciences, one in experimental (laboratory) sciences. There will be required interdisciplinary coursework and seminars, and required participation in the Outreach Core for the community.