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）：继续支持，要求在分子生物物理学博士课程在卫斯理大学的三个NIGMS研究生实习。我们的计划是大学研究生部的跨学科，跨部门计划。学生通过研究生课程，论文研究，每周杂志俱乐部，年度务虚会，研讨会，小组会议，研讨会和教学学徒进行博士研究。科学道德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，该计划将游客带到校园参加研讨会，讲座系列和个人课程的贡献。为了提供培训的广度，我们鼓励教师研究小组之间的合作项目和实验学家和理论家之间的互动。由于少数民族学生和妇女在我们的领域和科学整体代表性不足，我们的计划强调招聘代表性不足的群体，我们有一个特殊的程序利基和成就记录在培训女科学家。我们目前和拟议的计划涉及五名教师从化学系，三个从分子生物学和生物化学（MB&B），一个从生物学和物理学。除了我们的两位新助理教授外，所有教职员工都有来自NIH，NSF和其他资金来源的额外赠款，用于他们的研究项目。Wesleyan University是一所小型的，高度选择性的大学，强调本科层次的文科和理科，理科有BA，BA/MA和PhD课程。在分子生物物理学补充本科证书课程已经成立。这和我们的BA/MA计划有喂养学生在分子生物物理学和其他大学的相关领域的研究生课程的良好记录。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群集）为研究提供了绝佳的场所。为了回应以前的批评，我们已经取得了实质性的进展，提高完成时间博士和少数民族的招聘和参与。目前，两名在我们的项目中攻读博士学位的少数民族学生由我们的积极培训补助金资助。我们的计划已经明显加强了x射线晶体学，膜蛋白和信号转导的结构生物学和涉及生物材料的纳米科学研究的相关新举措，所有这些都在新课程和博士生的研究机会中得到了代表。这是卫斯理大学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，特别是研究生奖学金作为所有非NIH参与博士生的助教。