Graduate Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology at Indiana University Bloom

印第安纳大学布鲁姆分校定量与化学生物学研究生课程

• 批准号: 8875021
• 负责人: DAVID P. GIEDROC
• 金额: $ 18.25万
• 依托单位: TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8875021
• 关键词: Biology; Chemicals; Indiana; Universities; programs

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：在本提案中，来自印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校 (IUB) 五个不同系和项目（包括化学、生物学、分子和细胞生物化学、物理以及 IU 医学院医学科学项目）的 33 名导师组成的高度协作小组聚集在一起，启动了一个新的博士前化学-生物学接口 (CBI) 项目，该项目被称为 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，创建新的教学课程和研究机会，重点关注超越传统部门界限的生物医学科学的跨学科定量培训。该项目由项目主任和副主任指导，两人在物理和化学生物学方面具有互补的专业知识，并由指导委员会监督，该委员会包括来自四个参与部门研究生项目的培训师。招聘委员会将负责确定和确定学生以获得该计划的支持。课程委员会将指导 QCB TP 学生创建基于主题的电子模块，并监督两门 1.5 学分核心课程的开发：定量生物学和测量 (C680) 和化学生物学导论 (C681)，以及 QCB 期刊俱乐部 (C689)。课外活动包括 QCB 研讨会系列和年度化学生物技术渡边研讨会，每一项活动都会吸引来自学术界和工业界的国际知名化学家来到布卢明顿，与 QCB TP 学员进行讲座和参观。该计划还将赞助 QCB 之夜，这是学生每月组织的研究研讨会系列。拟议的 QCB TP 得到了 IUB 艺术与科学学院的强有力的行政支持，该学院在最初五年资助期的前三年提供了六个培训、资助名额的匹配。这项支持是在过去三年 QCB TP 开发阶段已经承诺的 14 个位置的基础上提供的。该资金已用于支持 8 名学员在其研究生职业生涯的第 2-3 年中的 1-2 年。该项目的一个主要目标是在 IUB 生命科学领域招募并留住来自代表性不足群体的学生；这将通过 QCB TP 招聘委员会与化学多元化事务委员会的密切合作来完成，该委员会负责利用全校在这一领域的重大努力。还概述了教授“负责任的研究行为”的提案。该计划目标的成功实现将极大地改变 IUB 研究生教育的面貌以及化学、物理和生命科学领域的成果。