Core--Training

波士顿大学超级基金基础研究计划（BU SBRP）内的培训核心将在两个主要现有培训计划的设置中工作，第一个是波士顿大学生物系内的“脊椎动物生殖内分泌机制”的NICHD培训计划，第二个是生物信息学的大型NSF赞助的综合研究生研究和培训（IGERT）计划，生物医学工程系、生物系、数学系、计算机科学系和化学系共同努力。生物系内的其他几个培训项目也将作为资源。核心明确回应需要提供生物医学科学的学生有机会了解研究的非生物医学领域，反之亦然。五个项目（包括三个生物医学和两个非生物医学项目）对外源性物质的酶和类固醇受体位点的分子建模有重要要求。因此，主要需要将计算组件整合到BU SBRP内的博士前学生队列以及一般生物和环境健康领域的培训中。候选人将从成功招募到现有的竞争激烈的培训计划中挑选。每个学生将有双导师，一个在工程（计算）科学，一个在实验（实验室）科学。将需要跨学科的课程和研讨会，并需要在社区的外展核心参与。

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.