Doctoral Studies in Molecular Biophysics

分子生物物理学博士研究

• 批准号: 8490386
• 负责人: DAVID Lewis BEVERIDGE
• 金额: $ 13.4万
• 依托单位: WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-30 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8490386
• 关键词: Biophysics; Molecular

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Continuation of support is requested for three NIGMS graduate traineeships in the Doctoral Program in Molecular Biophysics at Wesleyan University. Our program is an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental program in the Graduate Division of the University. Students pursue doctoral studies via graduate courses, dissertation research, a weekly journal club, an annual retreat, workshops, group meetings, seminars, and teaching apprenticeships. Scientific ethics and the historical and intellectual foundations of life science research figure significantly in the curriculum. Course offerings are enhanced by a robust "Frontiers of Science" program, which brings visitors to campus for seminars, lecture series and contribution to individual courses. To provide breadth of training, we encourage collaborative projects among faculty research groups and interactions between experimentalists and theoreticians. Since minority students and women are underrepresented in our field and in science overall, our program emphasizes recruitment of underrepresented groups and we have a particular programmatic niche and record of achievement in training women scientists. Our current and proposed program involves five faculty members from the Department of Chemistry, three from Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MB&B), one from Biology and one from Physics. All faculty members except our two new Assistant Professors have extramurally funded grants from NIH, NSF and other funding sources for their research programs. Wesleyan University is a small, highly selective university emphasizing the liberal arts and sciences at the undergraduate level with BA, BA/MA and PhD programs in the sciences. A complementary undergraduate certificate program in Molecular Biophysics has been established. This and our BA/MA program have a strong record of feeding students to graduate programs in Molecular Biophysics and related areas at other universities. Our campus setting, physical plant, laboratory and computing facilities (a Dell 266 node PC Cluster) provide an excellent venue for research. In response to previous critiques, we have made substantial progress in improving completion time to the PhD and in minority recruiting and participation. Currently, two under-represented minority students pursuing PhD studies in our program are funded from our active training grant. Our program has been measurably strengthened with the addition of x-ray crystallography, related new initiatives in the structural biology of membrane proteins and signal transduction and nanoscience research involving biological materials, all of which are represented in new course offerings and research opportunities for PhD students. This is the only federally funded training program at Wesleyan. This request comes with a substantial institutional commitment, in particular graduate stipends as TAs for all non-NIH participating PhD students.

描述（由申请人提供）：申请卫斯理大学分子生物物理学博士项目的三名NIGMS研究生培训。我们的项目是大学研究生部的一个跨学科、跨部门的项目。学生通过研究生课程、论文研究、每周期刊俱乐部、年度静修、讲习班、小组会议、研讨会和教学学徒制来攻读博士学位。科学伦理和生命科学研究的历史和知识基础在课程中占有重要地位。课程设置通过强大的“科学前沿”计划得到加强，该计划将访客带到校园参加研讨会，讲座系列和个人课程的贡献。为了提供广泛的培训，我们鼓励教师研究小组之间的合作项目以及实验家和理论家之间的互动。由于少数民族学生和女性在我们的领域和整个科学领域的代表性不足，我们的项目强调招募代表性不足的群体，我们在培养女科学家方面有一个特殊的项目定位和成就记录。我们目前和计划中的项目包括来自化学系的5名教员，来自分子生物学和生物化学（MB&B）的3名教员，来自生物学的1名教员和来自物理学的1名教员。除了我们的两位新助理教授外，所有的教师都有来自NIH， NSF和其他资助来源的研究项目的外部资助。卫斯理大学是一所规模较小、选拔性很强的大学，强调本科阶段的文科和理科课程，包括学士、学士/硕士和理科博士课程。已经建立了分子生物物理学的补充本科证书课程。这和我们的学士/硕士课程在其他大学的分子生物物理学和相关领域的研究生课程中有着良好的记录。我们的校园环境，物理工厂，实验室和计算设施（戴尔266节点PC集群）提供了一个极好的研究场所。为了回应之前的批评，我们在缩短博士学位的完成时间以及少数族裔的招聘和参与方面取得了实质性进展。目前，有两名少数族裔学生在我们的项目中攻读博士学位，他们获得了我们的积极培训资助。随着x射线晶体学的加入，我们的项目得到了显著的加强，在膜蛋白结构生物学和信号转导以及涉及生物材料的纳米科学研究方面有了相关的新举措，所有这些都体现在博士生的新课程设置和研究机会中。这是卫斯理唯一一个由联邦政府资助的培训项目。这一要求伴随着大量的机构承诺，特别是所有非nih参与的博士生作为助教的研究生津贴。