Gaining Skills and Collaborating Through Interdisciplinary Education

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议举办为期一周的研讨会，为生物医学科学家和分析师提供短期课程。它将为这两个小组提供尖端科学家需要的材料和技能，以保持他们的创新水平和相关性。这也将给小组一个互动的机会，这是他们很少能够做到的。从事多学科研究、系统科学、模型开发和大型复杂数据集研究的科学家需要了解这些方法的假设、优势和局限性。同样，许多定量科学家有兴趣将他们的技能和知识应用于当代生物学和行为学研究，但可能缺乏基础生物学学科的正式培训。这些科学家将从生物学研究的目标、性质、问题和语言方面的指导中受益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a weeklong, accessible workshop that offers short courses for both biomedical scientists and analysts. It will give both groups the material and skills that cutting-edge scientists need in order to maintain their level of innovation and relevance. It will also give the groups a chance to interact, which they rarely are able to do. Scientists engaged in multidisciplinary research, systems sciences, model development, and research on large and complex data sets need to understand the assumptions, advantages, and limitations of these approaches. Likewise, many quantitative scientists are interested in applying their skills and knowledge to contemporary biological and behavioral research but may lack formal training in fundamental biological disciplines. These scientists would benefit from instruction in the goals, nature, issues, and language of biological research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Progress in contemporary biological and behavioral disciplines depends heavily on investigators who are skilled in the use of mathematics, computation, and statistics (collectively referred to as quantitative methods) but who also appreciate biological and medical principles enough to understand the complexity inherent in applying these methods to real biological data. Similarly, their biological counterparts must understand and appreciate analytical methods in order to make decisions about managing the enormous data sets that are produced by modern experimental methods. In our proposal, we outline a simple and effective approach to helping scientists from disciplines as diverse as these gain the competence and perspective they need to maintain their status at the forefront of biomedical research.