Integrative Program in Complex Biological System (ipCBS)

描述(申请人提供)：在过去的十年里，我们见证了生物学新纪元的出现。在很大程度上受到高通量技术和计算能力进步的推动，今天的生物学家可以收集数据和测量数据，其规模和复杂程度直到最近还无法想象。随着新时代的到来，生物学现在正在成为一门信息和工程科学，它不仅依赖于基本的组织原则，而且还依赖于预测模型。以前吸引具有不同培训背景的学生的努力是成功的，创造了一个多学科的环境。然而，未来挑战的复杂性将要求学生整合不同学科的观点，以合成全新的方法，而不是在自己的竖井中工作。这种实现真正的跨学科培训的过程需要一种新的研究生教育方法，在这种过程中，传统学科的边界被模糊，或者完全被消除。为了迎接这一挑战，我们开发了一个全面的跨学科课程，培训学生理解和设计复杂的生物系统。复杂生物系统综合课程(IpCBS)与传统课程有很大的不同。IpCBS建立在一个专注于复杂生物系统的观察、建模和操作的全新基础上，代表了一种解决与培训科学家同时精通生物、数学、物理和工程语言相关的关键社会学和语言学问题的新方法。 相关性：加州大学旧金山分校严格来说是一个生物医学校园。与我们所有的研究生培训计划一样，复杂生物系统综合计划致力于在全球范围内促进健康。我们受训人员及其教员的具体研究项目集中在广泛的基础和应用生物医学科学上，从药物发现、癌症治疗、病毒进化和传染病等等，不一而足。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): During the past decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a new era in biology. Driven largely by advances in high-throughput technologies and computational power, biologists today can collect data and measurements on a scale and complexity level unimaginable until recently. With the new era, biology is now becoming an information and engineering science that will rely not only on the fundamental organizational principles, but also on predictive modeling. Previous efforts to attract students with diverse training backgrounds were successful, creating a multidisciplinary environment. However, the complexity of the challenges ahead will require that students integrate perspectives from different disciplines to synthesize completely new approaches, rather than working within their own silos. This process of achieving true interdisciplinary training, where the boundaries of traditional disciplines are blurred, or removed altogether, requires a new approach to graduate education. To meet this challenge, we have developed a comprehensive interdisciplinary program for training students in the understanding and engineering of complex biological systems. The Integrative Program in Complex Biological Systems (ipCBS) departs significantly from a traditional curriculum. Built on an entirely new foundation focused on the observation, modeling, and manipulation of complex biological systems, the ipCBS represents a novel approach to solve the critical sociological and linguistic problems associated with training scientists to be simultaneously conversant in the languages of biology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. RELEVANCE: The University of California at San Francisco is strictly a biomedical campus. Like all of our graduate training programs, the Integrated Program in Complex Biological Systems is dedicated to advancing health worldwide. The specific research programs of our trainees and their faculty are focused on a broad range of basic and applied biomedical science, ranging from drug discovery, cancer therapeutics, viral evolution, and infectious disease, to name just a few.