REU Site: Summer Research Projects in Biosystems Modeling and Analysis

0244045奈尔该奖项为哥伦比亚密苏里大学为期三年的本科生研究体验(REU)网站提供资金，该网站每年在夏季的十周内为12名学生提供资金，专注于生物科学中数学建模和分析领域的研究。REU网站设计为为期10周的夏季体验，将有来自密苏里大学哥伦比亚工程学院、文理学院生物物理研究所、医学院生理系和兽医学院兽医病理生物学系的多学科教员团队参与。随着生物技术的快速发展，工程学和定量方法在生物科学的几个领域中的作用已经大大增加。定量建模和系统理论代表了定义明确的领域，它们结合了工程学和生物科学的不同学科。即使在生命科学的几个领域取得了重大的技术进步，建模和系统课程也只是刚刚开始正规化。在这个REU网站，学生们将有一个独特的机会与一个由知名教师研究人员组成的强大的跨学科团队合作，学习如何通过使用定量建模和系统理论分析的研究来探索生物系统。

0244045 NairThis award provides funding for a three-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Missouri Colombia for twelve students per year during ten weeks in the summer to focus on research in the area of mathematical modeling and analysis in the biosciences. The REU site is designed as a ten-week summer experience and will involve a multidisciplinary team of faculty from the University of Missouri Colombia College of Engineering, the Institute of Biophysics in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Physiology in the School of Medicine, and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. With rapid advances in biotechnology, the role of engineering and quantitative approaches has grown tremendously in several areas of the biosciences. Quantitative modeling and system theory represent well-defined areas that combine the diverse disciplines of engineering and the biosciences. Even with significant technological advances in several areas of the life sciences, modeling and system curricula are only beginning to be formalized. At this REU Site, students will have a unique opportunity to work with a strong interdisciplinary team of well-established faculty researchers to learn how to explore biosystems through research using quantitative modeling and system theory analysis.