Core--Training

波士顿大学超级基金基础研究项目（BU SBRP）的培训核心将在现有的两个主要培训项目中开展工作，第一个是NICHD培训项目“脊椎动物生殖中的内分泌机制”，在波士顿大学生物系内，第二个由美国国家科学基金会赞助的生物信息学综合研究生研究和培训（IGERT）项目，这是基于生物医学工程，生物学，数学，计算机科学和化学部门的共同努力。生物系内的其他几个培训项目也将作为资源。核心课程明确回应了为生物医学学生提供学习非生物医学研究领域的机会的需要，反之亦然。五个项目（包括三个生物医学项目和两个非生物医学项目）对异种生物的酶和类固醇受体位点的分子建模有重要要求。因此，迫切需要将计算组成部分纳入波士顿大学SBRP和一般生物和环境卫生领域的博士预科学生的培训中。候选人将从成功招募的员工中挑选出来，参加现有的竞争激烈的培训项目。每个学生将有两个导师，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，并需要参与社区外展核心。

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.