Integrative Program in Complex Biological System (ipCBS)

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的十年中，我们见证了生物学新时代的出现。在高通量技术和计算能力进步的推动下，今天的生物学家可以在规模和复杂性上收集数据和测量，直到最近才想象得到。随着新时代的到来，生物学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理，而且依赖于预测建模。以前吸引具有不同培训背景的学生的努力取得了成功，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来自不同学科的观点，以综合全新的方法，而不是在自己的孤岛中工作。在实现真正的跨学科训练的过程中，传统学科的界限变得模糊，或者完全消失，需要一种新的研究生教育方法。为了迎接这一挑战，我们开发了一个全面的跨学科计划，以培养学生对复杂生物系统的理解和工程。复杂生物系统综合课程（ipCBS）与传统课程有很大的不同。ipCBS建立在一个全新的基础上，专注于对复杂生物系统的观察、建模和操作，它代表了一种解决与培养科学家同时精通生物学、数学、物理学和工程学语言相关的关键社会学和语言学问题的新方法。

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.