Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program

生物信息学与计算生物学培训项目

• 批准号: 8880238
• 负责人: Alexander J Hartemink
• 金额: $ 24.47万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8880238
• 关键词: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a resubmission of an application for a training grant for the Duke University Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB). CBB is a graduate program. It admits its own students and grants the PhD. Its mission is to educate the next generation of scientists who will work at the interface between the life sciences and the quantitative sciences. CBB supports students for their first two years, after which they move onto support from the faculty. The program aims to admit around ten new students each year. This proposal requests ten slots, which would support half the students. The program typically takes five years to complete, and it embodies a wide range of academic activities, including three core courses and three research rotations, all taken in the first year, a required seminar series, careful RCR training, and interdisciplinary mentoring and supervision. The program is supported by an unusually broad, but well integrated group of faculty. Research areas of the faculty are quite broad, and are grouped into six areas: Systems Biology, Genome Analysis, Computational Structural Biology, Genomic Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics and Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of Biological Systems. Students emerge well prepared to work in collaborative research groups where biologists and computational scientists make joint intellectual contributions to solving real biological problems. CBB is completing its fifth year of initial funding from the NIH. These five years have seen significant growth of computational biology at Duke University, the program now includes 57 faculty (24 in quantitative departments and 33 in biological ones) from 15 departments in three schools and one Institute. Excellent students have bee recruited into the Program and retention is excellent with 43 of the 49 students that have been admitted since the program began having finished their PhD or making good progress towards their degree. Graduates have done extremely well, 6 have taken postdoctoral positions at prestigious institutions and 4 have taken strong industrial positions.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案是对杜克大学计算生物学和生物信息学计划（CBB）的培训补助金的申请的重新提交。 CBB是一项研究生课程。它承认自己的学生并授予博士学位。它的使命是教育下一代科学家，他们将在生命科学与定量科学之间的界面工作。 CBB为学生提供了前两年的支持，之后他们得到了教师的支持。该计划旨在每年承认大约十个新学生。该提案要求十个插槽，这将支持一半的学生。该计划通常需要五年的时间才能完成，并且体现了广泛的学术活动，包括三个核心课程和三个研究轮换，所有这些都在第一年进行，需要进行的研讨会系列，仔细的RCR培训以及跨学科的指导和监督。该计划得到了一个异常广泛但融合良好的教职员工的支持。该教师的研究领域非常广泛，分为六个领域：系统生物学，基因组分析，计算结构生物学，基因组医学，进化基因组学以及生物系统的数学和统计模型。学生们准备好在合作研究小组中工作，生物学家和计算科学家为解决真正的生物学问题做出了共同的智力贡献。 CBB将从NIH完成其初始资金的第五年。这五年已经在杜克大学（Duke University）看到了计算生物学的显着增长，该计划现在包括57名教职员工（定量部门的24位，生物学部门的33个教职员工），来自三所学校和一所学院的15个部门。优秀的学生已经招募了该计划，并且保留率很高，自从该计划开始完成博士学位或在学位上取得良好进步以来，有49名学生中有43名被录取。毕业生的表现非常出色，有6名在著名的机构担任博士后职位，有4位担任了强大的工业职位。