IGERT: Time, Space, and Structure: Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems

该IGERT奖项在布兰代斯大学建立了一个多学科的生物系统物理和化学教育和研究研究的研究生培训计划。 该计划将确保a）生物学家可以有效地使用严格的定量方法，新技术和模型，B）物理学家和化学家获得生物系统和方法的实践经验，以及c）具有各种背景的学生学习多种科学语言，以便他们可以与具有技能和培训的调查人员进行沟通和合作。研究生将在各种各样的主题，包括蛋白质复合物，信号转导和转录，神经元网络，生物振荡器，认知过程和行为进行最先进的研究。 学生的论文研究将涉及生物学问题的定量方法。 教育计划包括实验室轮换和包括建模和定量方法的课程;将专门为该计划开发几门新课程。受训人员还将参加一个关于负责任地进行研究的学期课程，邀请和主持外部研讨会发言人，参加期刊俱乐部并担任助教。 为了提高赠款的更广泛的影响，学员将接受正式的培训，在两个地区的科学博物馆和/或通过几个校园为基础的教育推广计划向普通观众介绍科学。IGERT计划将为当地高中教师、学生和感兴趣的公众提供免费的周六上午系列讲座。 本科少数民族学生将熟悉布兰代斯的研究机会。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This IGERT award establishes a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in the Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems at Brandeis University. The program will ensure that a) biologists can work effectively with rigorous quantitative methods, new technologies and models, b) physicists and chemists obtain hands-on experience with biological systems and methods, and c) students with a variety of backgrounds learn multiple scientific languages so that they can communicate and work with investigators with skill sets and training different from their own. Graduate students will be carrying out state-of-the-art research in a wide variety of topics including protein complexes, signal transduction and transcription, neuronal networks, biological oscillators, and cognitive processes and behavior. Trainees thesis research will involve quantitative approaches to a biological problem. The educational plan includes laboratory rotations and courses that include modeling and quantitative methods; several new courses will be developed specifically for this program. Trainees will also participate in a semester-long course on the responsible conduct of research, invite and host outside seminar speakers, participate in journal clubs and serve as teaching assistants. To enhance the broader impacts of the grant, trainees will receive formal training in presenting science to lay audiences at two area science museums, and/or through several campus-based educational outreach programs. The IGERT program will provide a free Saturday morning lecture series for local high school teachers, students, and the interested public. Undergraduate minority students will be acquainted with research opportunities at Brandeis. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.