Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

项目摘要/摘要 该提案要求支持分子科学领域的十名博士前实习生。 生物物理学，主要来自生物物理学跨部门研究生组， 以及化学、分子和细胞生物学系。26个培训 教职员工来自上述学院和物理系， 生物工程、化学和生物分子工程、植物和微生物 生物学。我们的教员是各自领域的世界领先者，其中包括五名 美国国家科学院，霍华德·休斯医学研究所的五名研究人员，以及 他最近获得了生命科学突破奖。分子生物物理学 培训助学金是加州大学伯克利分校唯一专注于分子科学的培训项目 生物物理学和唯一支持研究生培训的培训补助金 生物物理学研究生组。 该计划的目标是培训未来的领导者在应用MOST 强大的基于物理学的技术和概念，在医学上， 以及具有重要社会意义的问题。我们有一个持续的生产记录 成为学术界、工业界和政府研究领域的领军人物的毕业生 实验室。我们通过一个综合计划来实现这一点，该计划的四大支柱是1) 第一年进行了三次实验室轮换，第二年进行了指导研究 一年及以后；2)生物物理模型和物理生物化学的核心课程； 3)通过每月午餐会议、与内部和 外部演讲者、年度务虚会和实习生会议；4)培训 道德操守和科学正直、严谨和可重复性。

Project Summary / Abstract This proposal requests support for ten predoctoral trainees in the field of molecular biophysics, drawn principally from the interdepartmental Graduate Group in Biophysics, and the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology. The 26 training faculty are drawn from the foregoing and from the Departments of Physics, Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Plant and Microbial Biology. Our faculty are world leaders in their fields and include five members of the National Academy of Sciences, five Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and a recent recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. The Molecular Biophysics Training Grant is the only training program at UC Berkeley focussing on molecular biophysics and the only training grant that supports graduate training within the Graduate Group in Biophysics. The goal of the program is to train future leaders in the application of the most powerful physics-based technologies and concepts to the most intractable, medically, and societally important problems. We have a sustained track record of producing graduates who have become leaders in academia, industry, and government research laboratories. We accomplish this with an integrated program whose four pillars are 1) three laboratory rotations in the first year, followed by mentored research in the second year and beyond; 2) core coursework in biophysical modeling and physical biochemistry; 3) career development through monthly lunch meetings, networking with internal and external speakers, an annual retreat, and trainee conference attendance; 4) training in ethical conduct and scientific integrity, rigor, and reproducibility.