Graduate Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology at Indiana University Bloom

描述（申请人提供）：在该提案中，由来自布卢明顿印第安纳州大学（IUB）五个不同系和项目的33名导师组成的高度协作小组，包括化学、生物学、分子和细胞生物化学、物理学以及印第安纳大学医学院医学科学项目，已经走到一起，启动了一个新的博士前化学生物学接口（CBI）计划，称为定量和化学生物学培训计划（QCB TP）。QCB TP的中心目标是建立一个研究生培训环境，利用我们在分析化学和仪器开发方面的优势，创造新的教学课程和研究机会，专注于超越传统部门界限的生物医学科学跨学科定量培训。该计划由一名计划主任和一名副主任指导，每个人都具有物理和化学生物学方面的互补专业知识，并由一个指导委员会监督，该委员会包括来自四个参与部门研究生课程的培训师。招聘委员会将负责确定和针对学生的支持计划。课程委员会将指导QCB TP学生创建基于主题的电子模块，并监督两个1.5学分核心课程的开发，定量生物学和测量（C680）和化学生物学介绍（C681），以及QCB期刊俱乐部（C689）。课外活动包括QCB研讨会系列和化学生物技术年度渡边研讨会，每一个都将国际知名的化学家从学术界和工业界带到布卢明顿，与QCB TP学员一起演讲和参观。该计划还将赞助QCB晚会，每月学生组织的研究研讨会系列。拟议的QCB TP享有来自艺术和科学学院在IUB，它提供了一个匹配的六个培训，补助金插槽在最初的五年资助期的前三年强有力的行政支持。这种支持是在过去三年QCB TP发展阶段已经承诺的14个名额的基础上提供的;这已用于支持8名学员在他们毕业后职业生涯的第2-3年中的1-2年。该计划的一个主要目标是从IUB生命科学中代表性不足的群体中招募和留住学生;这将通过QCB TP招聘委员会与化学多样性事务委员会的密切联系来实现，该委员会负责利用这一领域的重大校园努力。还概述了教学的负责任的研究行为的建议。该计划目标的成功实现将极大地改变研究生教育的面貌和在IUB化学，物理和生命科学的成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this proposal, a highly collaborative group of thirty-three preceptors drawn from five different departments and programs at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB) including Chemistry, Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Physics, and the Program in Medical Sciences of the IU School of Medicine, have come together to initiate a new predoctoral chemistry-biology interface (CBI) program termed the Quantitative and Chemical Biology Training Program (QCB TP). The central objective of the QCB TP is to build a graduate training environment that leverages our strengths in analytical chemistry and instrumentation development to create new didactic courses and research opportunities focused on interdisciplinary quantitative training in the biomedical sciences that transcends traditional departmental boundaries. The program is directed by a Program Director and an Associate Director, each with complementary expertise in physical and chemical biology, and is overseen by a Steering Committee which includes trainers from four participating departmental graduate programs. The Recruitment Committee will be responsible for identifying and targeting students for support by the program. The Curriculum Committee will direct the creation of topic-based e-modules by QCB TP students, and oversee the development of two 1.5 credit core courses, Quantitative Biology and Measurement (C680) and Introduction to Chemical Biology (C681), as well as QCB Journal Club (C689). Extracurricular programmatic activities include a QCB Seminar Series and the annual Watanabe Symposium in Chemical Biotechnology, each of which brings internationally prominent chemists to Bloomington from academia and industry alike to lecture and visit with QCB TP trainees. The program will also sponsor QCB Evenings, a monthly student-organized research seminar series. The proposed QCB TP enjoys strong administrative support from the College of Arts and Sciences at IUB, which has offered a match of six training, grant slots over the first three years of the initial five-year funding period. Ths support comes on top of 14 slots already committed over the last three years in the developmental phase of the QCB TP; this been used to support eight trainees for 1-2 years in years 2-3 of their graduate careers. A major goal of the program is to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups in the life sciences at IUB; this will be accomplished by close association of the QCB TP Recruitment Committee with the Diversity Affairs Committee in Chemistry charged with leveraging significant campus-wide efforts in this area. A proposal for teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research is also outlined. Successful achievement of the goals of this program will dramatically change the face of graduate student education and outcomes in the chemical, physical and life sciences at IUB.