Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program

生物信息学与计算生物学培训项目

• 批准号: 8289471
• 负责人: Alexander J Hartemink
• 金额: $ 17.86万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8289471
• 关键词: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a resubmission of an application for a training grant for the Duke University Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB). CBB is a graduate program. It admits its own students and grants the PhD. Its mission is to educate the next generation of scientists who will work at the interface between the life sciences and the quantitative sciences. CBB supports students for their first two years, after which they move onto support from the faculty. The program aims to admit around ten new students each year. This proposal requests ten slots, which would support half the students. The program typically takes five years to complete, and it embodies a wide range of academic activities, including three core courses and three research rotations, all taken in the first year, a required seminar series, careful RCR training, and interdisciplinary mentoring and supervision. The program is supported by an unusually broad, but well integrated group of faculty. Research areas of the faculty are quite broad, and are grouped into six areas: Systems Biology, Genome Analysis, Computational Structural Biology, Genomic Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics and Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of Biological Systems. Students emerge well prepared to work in collaborative research groups where biologists and computational scientists make joint intellectual contributions to solving real biological problems. CBB is completing its fifth year of initial funding from the NIH. These five years have seen significant growth of computational biology at Duke University, the program now includes 57 faculty (24 in quantitative departments and 33 in biological ones) from 15 departments in three schools and one Institute. Excellent students have bee recruited into the Program and retention is excellent with 43 of the 49 students that have been admitted since the program began having finished their PhD or making good progress towards their degree. Graduates have done extremely well, 6 have taken postdoctoral positions at prestigious institutions and 4 have taken strong industrial positions.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是杜克大学计算生物学和生物信息学（CBB）项目培训补助金申请的重新提交。 CBB 是一个研究生课程。它招收自己的学生并授予博士学位。它的使命是教育下一代科学家，他们将在生命科学和定量科学之间的交叉领域工作。 CBB 在学生的头两年为学生提供支持，之后他们将获得教师的支持。该项目的目标是每年招收大约十名新生。该提案需要十个名额，这将支持一半的学生。该项目通常需要五年时间才能完成，包含广泛的学术活动，包括三门核心课程和三项研究轮换（全部在第一年完成）、必修的系列研讨会、仔细的 RCR 培训以及跨学科指导和监督。该项目得到了异常广泛但综合性良好的教师群体的支持。该学院的研究领域相当广泛，分为六个领域：系统生物学、基因组分析、计算结构生物学、基因组医学、进化基因组学以及生物系统的数学和统计建模。学生们已经做好了在合作研究小组中工作的准备，在这些小组中，生物学家和计算科学家共同为解决实际的生物学问题做出智力贡献。 CBB 即将完成 NIH 初始资金的第五年。这五年来，杜克大学的计算生物学取得了显着的发展，该项目现在包括来自三所学院和一所研究所的 15 个系的 57 名教员（定量系 24 名，生物系 33 名）。该项目已经招收了优秀的学生，并且保留率很高，自该项目开始以来已被录取的 49 名学生中，有 43 人已完成博士学位或在攻读学位方面取得了良好进展。毕业生表现非常出色，其中 6 人在著名机构担任博士后职位，4 人担任重要的工业职位。