Training Program in Bioinformatics

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求资助密歇根大学生物信息学项目的博士前培训。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项目，吸引了来自医学院、工程学院、文学科学与艺术学院、公共卫生学院、药学学院和信息学学院的教师。计算生物科学已经成为一个新的多学科领域，对生物学和医学的各个方面都有贡献，国家迫切需要精通计算生物学和生物信息学的科学家。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。该项目的学员通过参加专门的每周期刊俱乐部、双周系列研讨会、每月学生演讲系列、讲座、迷你课程、专题讨论会和包括所有学员及其顾问在内的年度务静会，接触广泛的研究并接受标准研究生课程之外的培训。正式的咨询从注册前的培训开始，并在整个培训过程中持续进行。密歇根大学是国际公认的研究生教育中心，拥有支持真正多学科培训所需的实力和广度。生物信息学课程通过协同课程、研讨会和迷你课程，受益于并反过来加强了校园内许多其他培训项目。该机构在生物信息学方面有着广泛的承诺，2000年建立了生物信息学专业，具有硕士和博士学位授予权。这一承诺通过最近和持续的校园教师招聘和项目专用空间的建设得到加强。美国国立卫生研究院多学科生物信息学培训计划的建立将提高教师的生产力，并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.