Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案代表伦斯勒理工学院和沃兹沃斯中心生物分子科学与工程培训计划的更新提案。培训计划的目标是增加来自生物学、生物医学工程、化学与生物工程、化学与化学生物学四个系学科的学生之间的互动，包括教学、研究和工业成分。培训的结果将使受训者对研究的跨学科性质，如何依赖科学和工程的基础基础，如何导致创新的科学学科和技术，以及如何开发商业产品有深刻的理解。来自上述项目的教师（总共23人），以及来自华兹华斯的培训师，积极参与合成生物学的研究项目（以生物催化、途径整合和构建、糖组学、生物分离和生物材料设计、合成和性能为代表）；生物分子系统（如结构、功能和分析）；分子生物学和生物信息学。培训计划的主要方面包括：b[1]一套三门课程，最大限度地提高了关键学科之间的教学培训；b[2]为所有学员开设的“生物分子科学与工程展望”核心课程；b[3]系列研讨会，以RPI和沃兹沃思目前的校园研讨会项目为基础；b[4]是一个学生管理的研讨会项目，学员和伦斯勒生物分子科学与工程领域的其他研究生向他们的同龄人和培训教员展示他们的研究；b[5]培训负责任的研究行为；[6]生物分子科学与工程博士论文联合指导和多学科论文委员会委员；bbb10工业实习；每年100美元。协调委员会确保受训者满足这些要求，而弱势群体招募委员会将积极参与识别和招募弱势群体加入该项目。除了每年6个培训生名额外，伦斯勒每年还将支持3名研究所培训生。相关性：该计划的使命和相关性是提供一个综合的多学科平台，在生物学和工程学的界面上广泛培养多样化的博士生干部，专注于定义该界面的定量联系，并为实习生的生物技术职业生涯做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal represents a renewal proposal for the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wadsworth Center. The objectives of the Training Program are aimed at increased interaction among students from the four departmental disciplines of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Chemistry and Chemical Biology with didactic, research, and industrial components. The outcome of this training will provide the trainee with a keen understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of research, how it depends on fundamental underpinnings in both science and engineering, how it leads to innovative new scientific disciplines and technologies, and how commercial products are developed. Faculty (a total of 23) from the aforementioned programs, as well as trainers from Wadsworth, are actively involved in research programs spanning synthetic biology (represented by biocatalysis, pathway integration and construction, glycomics, bioseparations, and biomaterials design, synthesis, and properties); Biomolecular systems (e.g., structure, function, and analysis); and molecular biology and bioinformatics. Key aspects of the training program include: [1] a set of~ three courses that maximize didactic training among the key disciplines; [2] a core course entitled "Perspectives in Biomolecular Science and Engineering" that is taken by all trainees; [3] seminar series that build on current campus-wide seminar programs at RPI and Wadsworth; [4] a student-run seminar program, where trainees and other Rensselaer graduate students in the area of Biomolecular science and engineering present their research to their peers and training faculty; [5] training in responsible conduct of research; [6] joint supervision and multidisciplinary thesis committee membership for Ph.D. thesis work in Biomolecular science and engineering; [7] an industrial internship; and [8] an annual. A Coordinating Committee ensures that the trainees satisfy these requirements and an Underrepresented Minority Recruitment Committee will be actively engaged in identifying and recruiting underrepresented minorities into the program. In addition to the six trainee slots per year proposed herein, Rensselaer will support three Institute trainees per year. RELEVANCE: The program's mission and relevance is to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary platform to train a diverse cadre of predoctoral students broadly at the interface of biology and engineering, focusing on the quantitative linkages that define this interface and preparing the trainee for a career in biotechnology.