BBSI:The Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute at VCU

该奖项为为期三年的连续奖项提供支持，该奖项是弗吉尼亚联邦大学（VCU）的NIBIB-NSF生物工程和生物信息学暑期研究所（BBSI）计划的延续，名为BBSI：VCU的生物信息学和生物工程暑期研究所，由Gregory A.巴克 VCU BBSI将继续为大约22名（12-14名进入和10-12名返回）高水平本科生提供生物工程和生物信息学跨学科领域的广泛接触，每年夏天为期十周。 在未来三年内，共有66名学生将得到该方案的支持。 VCU BBSI的目标是向未来的工程师和科学家展示生物信息学和生物工程的综合跨学科领域代表了令人兴奋，有益和非常可行的长期研究职业选择。 VCU BBSI的智力重点将是引导学生通过一系列高度集成的密集研究模拟，灵感来自他们的VCU主机实验室在连续两个夏季课程的实际问题。 核心技能，如计算和数学方法集成，跨学科和研究领域，研究所参与者的分析和方法技能。 学生还将通过与来访的科学家和工程师精心准备的经验与科学界互动。 学生还将对他们的研究项目承担主要责任，并通过教授同龄人更深入地研究他们工作的科学基础。 VCU BBSI的更广泛的影响体现在其通过最近推出的全面的新的生物信息学学士和硕士课程以及新的博士学位中的生物信息学课程整合尖端研究和教育经验的努力中。综合生命科学 新创建的工程学院是该国少数几个专注于生物工程的学院之一，并设有一个新的化学和生命科学工程系。 该计划由生物科学局（BIO）/生物基础设施部（DBI）/生物数据库和信息学部（BDI），工程局（ENG）/工程教育和中心部（EEC）以及国立卫生研究院/国立生物医学成像和生物工程研究所（NIBIB）共同资助。 志愿人员单位有培训非传统和代表性不足的人口的传统，这一传统反映在BBSI的目标中。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI) Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), entitled, BBSI: The Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute at VCU, under the direction of Dr. Gregory A. Buck. The VCU BBSI will continue to provide broad exposure to the interdisciplinary fields of bioengineering and bioinformatics for approximately 22 (12-14 entering and 10-12 returning) upper level undergraduate students, each summer for ten weeks. A total of 66 students will be supported by this program over the next three years. The goal of the VCU BBSI is to show future engineers and scientists that the integrative interdisciplinary fields of bioinformatics and bioengineering represent exciting, rewarding, and very viable long term options for a career in research. The intellectual focus of the VCU BBSI will be to lead students through a series of highly integrated intensive research simulations, inspired by actual problems from their VCU host laboratories over a two successive summer programs. Core skills such as computational and mathematical methods integrate, across disciplines and research areas, the analytical and methodological skills of the Institute participants. Students will also interact with the scientific community through carefully prepared experiences with visiting scientists and engineers. Students will also take primary responsibility for their research projects and delve more deeply into the scientific basis of their work by teaching their peers. The broader impact of the VCU BBSI is seen in its efforts to integrate cutting-edge research and educational experience through recently launched comprehensive new Bachelor's and Master's Programs in Bioinformatics and a Bioinformatics track in the new Ph.D. in Integrative Life Sciences. The newly created School of Engineering is one of few in the country to focus on Bioengineering, and houses a newly focused department of Chemistry and Life Sciences Engineering. This program is being co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)/Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)/Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI), 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). VCU has a tradition of training non-traditional and underrepresented populations, and that tradition is reflected in the goals of the BBSI.