Biophysics Training Program

生物物理学培训计划

• 批准号: 10494714
• 负责人: James H Hurley
• 金额: $ 61.04万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10494714
• 关键词: Biophysics; Training Programs

Project Summary / Abstract The Biophysics Training Program (BTP) is a new interdisciplinary predoctoral training program at the University of California at Berkeley. The BTP will be the only training program at UC Berkeley focusing on biophysics. The BTP will recruit and appoint six trainees per year to train in the field of biophysics, drawn from a pool of 640 applicants and 40 matriculants per year in the Biophysics and Molecular and Cell Biology PhD programs. Trainees will be appointed for two-year terms and will continue to engage with the BTP training activities and community-building events through to graduation. We aim to have at least 20% of our trainees coming from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. We expect that 100% of our students will graduate with a PhD within 6 years, with a target mean time to degree of 5.5 years for all students, and with no differential between students from URM and non-URM backgrounds. Our goal is that every student will publish a first or co- first author paper in a peer-reviewed journal recognized as excellent in the field of biophysics, and will subsequently pursue a research-related career in academia, industry, or government. Professional development will be centered on the acquisition of ten core competences designed to enable leadership in any of these workforce sectors. Training procedures will be informed by the latest scientific literature in the field of research mentorship and training, and will emphasize the acquisition of self-efficacy and sense of belonging. Research training will be enhanced in response to the latest advances in biophysics, including the rapidly growing importance of machine learning in structural biology and data analysis. A series of training innovations have been incorporated into the BTP, including a new hands-on computational modeling course in the physics of the cell, short boot camp courses in cryo-EM and single molecule microscopy, and advanced training in laboratory safety and record keeping. The effectiveness of the training program will be rigorously evaluated on an annual basis and advice sought from newly-constituted student and external advisory groups. All 23 of the BTP training faculty are members of the Graduate Group in Biophysics (GGB), and our trainees will be drawn from the GGB and the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program. Our faculty are world leaders in their fields and include six members of the National Academy of Sciences, six Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and a recent recipient of both the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and Nobel Prize in Chemistry. All BTP faculty undergo formal mentorship training and evaluation of mentoring quality.

项目摘要/摘要 生物物理学培训计划(BTP)是该校一项新的跨学科博士前培训计划 加州大学伯克利分校。BTP将是加州大学伯克利分校唯一一个专注于 生物物理学。BTP将每年招聘和任命6名学员进行生物物理学领域的培训，这些学员来自 生物物理学和分子与细胞生物学博士学位每年有640名申请者和40名预科生 程序。学员的任期为两年，并将继续参加BTP培训 活动和社区建设活动一直持续到毕业。我们的目标是至少有20%的实习生 来自代表不足的少数群体(URM)。我们预计100%的学生将以 在6年内获得博士学位，目标是所有学生的平均毕业时间为5.5年，并且没有差别 来自URM背景的学生和非URM背景的学生之间的差异。我们的目标是每个学生都会发表第一篇或共同的-- 在被公认为生物物理学领域优秀的同行评议期刊上发表的第一篇作者论文，并将 随后在学术界、工业界或政府部门从事与研究相关的职业。专业发展 将集中于获取十项核心能力，旨在实现以下任何一项的领导能力 劳动力部门。培训程序将由研究领域的最新科学文献提供信息 指导和培训，并将强调获得自我效能和归属感。研究 将加强培训，以应对生物物理学的最新进展，包括迅速增长的 机器学习在结构生物学和数据分析中的重要性。一系列培训创新已经 已被纳入BTP，包括一门新的动手操作的计算建模课程 细胞，低温电子显微镜和单分子显微镜的短期训练营课程，以及实验室高级培训 安全和记录保存。培训计划的效果将每年严格评估一次 向新成立的学生和外部咨询小组寻求依据和建议。所有23个BTP培训 教师是生物物理学研究生组(GGB)的成员，我们的实习生将从GGB中挑选出来 以及分子和细胞生物学博士项目。我们的教职员工是各自领域的世界领先者，其中包括六名 国家科学院成员，霍华德·休斯医学研究所的六名研究人员，以及最近的一名 获得生命科学突破奖和诺贝尔化学奖。所有BTP教职员工都要接受 正式的导师培训和导师质量评估。