A Joint Computational/Experimental Biomedical Summer Research Program for Undergr

描述(由申请者提供)：一个独特的为期十周的项目，为期五年，每个暑期为10名学生。这一研究经验的新方面是在杜奎恩成功的NIH联合计算和实验支持项目的基础上建立起来的。暑期研究计划将包括一个计算研讨会，在那里学生将接受培训，使用最先进的软件和硬件来解决生物医学问题。在剩下的九周里，学生们将在一个实验研究实验室里从事一项结合了计算的研究项目。例如，一名学生将在药物化学家实验室工作，根据他们进行的对接计算合成建议的新化合物。由于所有暑期研究项目都将包括理论和实验部分，学生将被期望与实验和理论导师发展他们与学生和教授的沟通技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A unique ten-week program is proposed for 10 students per summer for five years. The novel aspect of this research experience is to build off the successful joint computational and experimental NIH supported projects at Duquesne. The summer research program will be comprised of a computational workshop in which the students will be trained to use state-of-the- art software and hardware to solve biomedical problems. The remaining nine weeks will find the students in an experimental research laboratory working on a research project that incorporates computations. For example a student will be working in a medicinal chemists laboratory synthesizing new compounds that have been suggested based on docking calculations they had performed. Since all summer research projects will have theoretical and experimental components, the students will be expected to develop their student-professor communication skills with both the experimental and theoretical mentors.