Michigan Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：密歇根大学建议继续为选定的一批博士生提供化学-生物学接口(CBI)培训计划。参加这一新培训计划的学生人数为10人，为期五年。参与的单位包括文学、科学和艺术学院化学系；医学院生物化学和药理学系；生物物理研究部(BRD)；化学生物学博士(CB IDP)项目和药学院药物化学系。CBI培训计划的教师包括合成有机和无机化学家、生物有机化学家、生物分析化学家、蛋白质化学家、机械酶学家、光谱学家和结晶学家。博士学位将授予化学、生物化学、化学生物学、药理学和药物化学。从博士课程第二年开始，学生将获得为期两年的培训补助金。培训方案的课程包括在毕业前完成的新的学生休假，最好是在受训人员得到培训补助金支持的时候完成。为了加强学员之间的互动，并为学员提供更多机会介绍他们的研究成果，我们设立了每月午餐会，现在和过去的CBI学员都会参加。每年两次，来自较大的CB IDP的学生，以促进两个项目的学生之间的互动。此外，还举办了与CBI受训人员的研讨会和个别会议，以提供职业咨询。两门化学生物学核心课程和定期安排的向培训方案教职员工和其他受训人员介绍研究成果的机会也是该计划不可或缺的组成部分。学员的研究机会多种多样，其中包括在化学和生物学领域拥有广泛研究专长的教员。学员可以在这个界面上接触到现代研究中最先进的技术和仪器。培训方案的教职员工在合作研究方面有很长的历史，这种互动的研究方法是这四个基本学科的新一代科学家培训的中心主题。在接下来的五年里，CBI计划将成为密歇根大学新的跨学科生命科学倡议的主要贡献者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Michigan proposes to continue a predoctoral Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program for a selected group of Ph.D. students. The number of students requested for this new training program is 10 for a five-year period of support. The participating units are the Department of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; the Departments of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Medical School; the Biophysics Research Division (BRD); the Chemical Biology Ph.D. (CB IDP) program and he Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy. The faculty of the CBI Training Program includes synthetic organic and inorganic chemists, bioorganic chemists, bioanalytical chemists, protein chemists, mechanistic enzymologists, spectroscopists, and crystallographers. The Ph.D. degrees will be awarded in Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Pharmacology, and Medicinal Chemistry. Students will be appointed to the training grant for two years beginning in the second year of their Ph.D. program. The curriculum of the Training Program includes a novel student sabbatical to be completed before graduation and, preferably, while the trainee is supported by the training grant. In an effort to enhance interaction between students and provide more opportunity for trainees to present their research, we have instituted a monthly luncheon that is attended by present and past CBI trainees. Twice per year, students from the larger CB IDP in order to foster interactions between students of both programs. In addition, seminars and individual meetings with CBI trainees have been implemented in order to provide career counseling. Two core courses in Chemical Biology and regularly scheduled opportunities for the trainees to present their research results to the Training Program Faculty and fellow trainees are also integral to the program. Research opportunities for the trainees are varied and involve faculty with a wide range of expertise in research at the interface of chemistry and biology. The trainees have access to the most sophisticated techniques and instrumentation in modern research at this interface. The faculty of the Training Program has a long history of collaborative research and this interactive approach to research is a central theme in the training of a new generation of scientists in these four basic disciplines. During the next five years, the CBI Program is positioned to be a major contributor to the new interdisciplinary Life Sciences Initiative at the University of Michigan.