Biophysics Training Program

项目总结/摘要 生物物理学培训计划（BTP）是一个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的培训计划， 生物物理学BTP每年将从一个国家和地区招募并任命6名学员进行生物物理学领域的培训。 每年有640名申请人和40名学生参加生物物理学和分子与细胞生物学博士课程 程序.学员将被任命为两年任期，并将继续参与BTP培训 活动和社区建设活动，直到毕业。我们的目标是至少有20%的学员 来自代表性不足的少数群体（URM）。我们希望我们的学生100%将毕业与 6年内获得博士学位，所有学生的目标平均学位时间为5.5年，没有差异 来自URM和非URM背景的学生之间的差异。我们的目标是让每个学生都能发表第一篇或第二篇文章， 第一作者论文在同行评审的期刊上被公认为生物物理学领域的优秀论文，并将 随后在学术界，工业界或政府从事与研究相关的职业。专业发展 将集中在收购十个核心能力，旨在使领导在任何这些 劳动力部门。培训程序将参考研究领域的最新科学文献 辅导和培训，并将强调获得自我效能和归属感。研究 将根据生物物理学的最新进展加强培训， 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， 已被纳入BTP，包括一个新的动手计算建模过程中的物理 细胞，冷冻电镜和单分子显微镜短期靴子营课程，以及实验室高级培训 安全和记录保存。培训计划的有效性将在年度评估中进行严格评估。 新成立的学生和外部咨询小组的基础和咨询意见。所有23个BTP培训 教师是生物物理学研究生组（GGB）的成员，我们的学员将从GGB中抽取 以及分子和细胞生物学博士项目我们的教师在各自领域的世界领导者，包括六个 国家科学院的成员，六名霍华德休斯医学研究所的研究人员，以及最近的一名 生命科学突破奖和诺贝尔化学奖得主。所有BTP教师都要接受 正式的辅导培训和辅导质量评价。

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.