Training Program in Bioinformatics

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求为密歇根大学生物信息学项目的博士前培训提供资金。这是一个生物信息学和计算分子生物学的多学科研究生培训计划，吸引了来自医学，工程，文学科学和艺术，公共卫生，药学和信息学院的教师。计算生物科学已成为一个新的多学科领域，有助于生物学和医学的各个方面，并有一个在计算生物学和生物信息学熟练的科学家的迫切国家需求。生物信息学计划的使命是博士教育，为独立研究者的职业生涯做准备。该计划的学员将接触到广泛的研究，并通过参加专门的每周期刊俱乐部，双周研讨会系列，每月学生演示系列，讲座，迷你课程，研讨会和包括所有学员及其顾问的年度务虚会，接受超出标准研究生课程的培训。正式咨询从注册前的定向开始，并在整个培训过程中持续深入。密歇根大学是国际公认的研究生教育中心，具有支持真正多学科培训所需的实力和广度。生物信息学计划受益于并反过来通过协同课程，研讨会和迷你课程增强了校园内的许多其他培训计划。该机构对生物信息学有着广泛的承诺，并在2000年建立了生物信息学计划，该计划具有硕士和博士学位授予权。这一承诺得到了最近和持续的教师招聘整个校园和专用空间的计划建设加强。 NIH多学科生物信息学培训计划的建立将提高教师的生产力，促进实现美国国立卫生研究院的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funding for predoctoral training in the Bioinformatics Program at the University of Michigan. This is a multidisciplinary graduate training program in bioinformatics and computational molecular biology drawing faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Literature Science and Arts, Public Health, Pharmacy, and Information. Computational bioscience has emerged as a new multidisciplinary field contributing to all aspects of biology and medicine and there is an urgent national need for scientists skilled in computational biology and bioinformatics. The mission of the Bioinformatics Program is doctoral education in preparation for a career as an independent investigator. Trainees in the program are exposed to a wide range of research and receive training above and beyond the standard graduate programs through participation in dedicated weekly journal clubs, a biweekly seminar series, a monthly student presentation series, lectures, mini-courses, symposia and an annual retreat that includes all trainees and their advisers. Formal advising begins with orientation in advance of registration and continues intensively throughout the training experience. The University of Michigan is an internationally recognized center for graduate education with the strength and breadth necessary to support truly multidisciplinary training. The Bioinformatics Program benefits from and in turn enhances numerous other training programs on campus through synergistic course offerings, seminars and mini-courses. The institution has a broad commitment to bioinformatics strengthened by the establishment in 2000 of a Program in Bioinformatics with degree granting authority at the masters and doctoral levels. This commitment is reinforced by recent and continuing faculty recruitment across the campus and the construction of dedicated space for the program. The establishment of an NIH multidisciplinary Bioinformatics Training Program will enhance faculty productivity and facilitate progress toward attaining the goals of the National Institutes of Health.