BBSI Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute at Iowa State University

该奖项为NIBIB-NSF生物工程和生物信息学暑期学院（BBSI）项目的续期提供支持，该项目名为“爱荷华州立大学生物信息学和计算系统生物学暑期学院（CSBSI）”，由Robert Jernigan博士指导。ISU的生物化学系、生物物理与分子生物学系、遗传学系、发育与细胞生物学系、统计学系、电气与计算机工程系、计算机科学系、植物病理学系，以及劳伦斯H.贝克生物信息学与生物统计学中心（BCBBS）将继续主办先前资助的NIH-NSF生物信息学与计算系统生物学暑期学院，并举办为期三年、为期九周的暑期教育和研究项目。该研究所每年夏天将资助15名高级本科生和低级研究生，在整个奖学金期间共资助45名学生。该课程的智力价值在于其目标是向高年级本科生和低年级研究生介绍计算机科学、统计学和数学的应用，以回答综合生物学中出现的系统范围的生物学问题。更广泛的目标是让这些学生有能力识别和解决计算和系统生物学中的重要研究问题，并鼓励他们在这些领域从事职业。该研究所将以为期两周的密集教学课程为特色，重点是基因组学、生物信息学和计算生物学，以及遗传学、分子生物学和系统生物学的应用。CSBSI的更广泛影响将体现在它能够通过指导学生系统和计算生物学的基础知识，提供扩展的研究经验，以及培训其他学者，使他们能够指导他们的学生，从而增加生物信息学和计算生物学方面受过训练的人员的数量。研究人员开发的供研究所使用的课程材料、实验室项目和其他教学材料将通过互联网免费提供给工程师、科学家和教育工作者。项目团队还将使用这些材料在会议上提供教程和研讨会，并在选定的四年制大学进行讲座。该计划由生物科学理事会(BIO)/生物基础设施司(DBI)/植物基因组研究计划、工程理事会(ENG)/工程教育和中心司（EEC）以及国立卫生研究院/国家生物医学成像和生物工程研究所（NIBIB）共同资助。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI) Program, entitled, Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute (CSBSI) at Iowa State University (ISU) under the direction of Dr. Robert Jernigan. The Departments of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Statistics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Plant Pathology, and the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics (BCBBS) at ISU will continue to host the previously funded NIH-NSF Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute and host a nine week summer education and research program for three years. The Institute will support 15 upper level undergraduates and lower-level graduate students each summer for a total of 45 students throughout the duration of the award. The intellectual merit of this program lies in its goal is to introduce upper level undergraduate and lower level graduate students to the use of computer science, statistics and mathematics in answering systems-wide biological questions emerging in integrated biology. The wider goal is to give these students the ability to identify and tackle important research problems in computational and systems biology and to encrouage them to pursue careers in these fields. The institute will feature a two week intensive instructional course focusing on genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology with applications to genetics, molecular biology, and systems biology. The broader impacts of the CSBSI will be demonstrated in its ability to increase the pool of trained people in bioinformatics and computational biology by instructing students in the fundamentals of systems and computational biology, providing extended research experiences, and by training other academics so that they can instruct their students in these subjects. The course materials, laboratory projects and other didactic materials developed by the investigators for use in the Institute will be freely available to engineers, scientists and educators over the Internet. The project team will also use this material to offer tutorials and workshops at conferences and to give lectures at selected 4-year colleges.This program is being co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)/Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)/Plant Genome Research Program, the Directorate for Engineering (ENG)/Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).