NANOBIOLOGY INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT

描述（由申请人提供）： 纳米生物学培训计划（NBTP）建议建立在墨西哥湾沿岸财团凯克中心多机构，多学科培训工作的强大历史基础上。NBTP汇集了贝勒医学院、赖斯大学、休斯顿大学和德克萨斯大学休斯顿分校四个机构，将在纳米生物学学科即将出现的领域的广泛专业知识的基础上再接再厉。随着纳米生物学应用的探索，将需要工具，概念和人员的并行开发。一种新的课程方法将是必不可少的，以汇集专业知识的要素，将需要在这一新兴领域的从业人员。我们将在一个顶点课程中聘请高级博士前和博士后学员，以设计满足学生在这一领域需求的课程。 学员将被要求有两个不同的母学科的导师，在共同导师的实验室的一个小休假期将是培训经验的重要组成部分。学员将在三个不同领域的纳米生物学的重要问题-成像，建模和材料。这些领域中的每一个都对该领域的发展至关重要，并且在每个领域都发现了培训教师的强大专业知识。教师来自所有四个参与机构，参与标准是对新兴纳米生物学问题的浓厚兴趣和对该培训计划的承诺。 凯克中心有效的基础设施、非重叠培训项目的跟踪记录以及嵌入在令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究背景中的博士前和博士后培训的刺激和强大的智力环境，充分利用了该计划中为博士前和博士后学员提供的核心支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Nanobiology Training Program (NBTP) proposed builds on a strong history of multi-institutional, multidisciplinary training efforts in the Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia. Bringing together four institutions - Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, and University of Texas-Houston - the NBTP will build on the extensive expertise in areas from which the discipline of nanobiology will emerge. As nanobiology applications are explored, concurrent development of tools, concepts, and people will be required. A novel approach to curricula will be essential to bring together the elements of expertise that will be required for the practitioner in this nascent area. We will engage advanced pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees in a capstone course to design curricula that meet the needs of students in this area. Trainees will be required to have mentors in two different parent disciplines, and a mini-sabbatical period in the co-mentor's laboratory will be an essential part of the training experience. Trainees will work on important problems of nanobiology in three different areas - imaging, modeling, and materials. Each of these areas is crucial to the development of this area, and strong expertise in the training faculty is found in each of the areas. The faculty is drawn from all four participating institutions, and criteria for engagement are strong interest in emerging nanobiology problems and commitment to this training program. Core support provided for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees in this program is highly leveraged by the effective infrastructure of the Keck Center, the track record of non-overlapping training programs, and a stimulating and robust intellectual environment for pre- and post-doctoral training embedded in an exciting and challenging research context.