BBSI@PITT: Simulation and Computer Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scales

该奖项提供了一个为期三年的连续奖项，在Ivet Bahar博士的指导下，在匹兹堡大学更新了BBSI@PITT：多尺度生物系统的模拟和计算机可视化。 该计划自2002年以来由匹兹堡大学（牵头机构），匹兹堡超级计算中心，迪克讷大学和卡内基梅隆大学提供，将为39名本科生和研究生举办为期十周的暑期课程，每年13名，共三年。 学生将有很强的分析和定量技能，并在计算生物学，生物工程或生物信息学的职业生涯的高潜力。 BBSI@Pitt将继续专注于计算和数学方法，利用已知的结构，生物化学途径和其他数据来理解分子和细胞系统的功能和动力学，其中大部分数据越来越多地积累在网络上。 BBSI@Pitt的目标是通过一系列跨学科的讲座，计算实验室会议和传统本科课程中不可用的独立研究机会为学生提供独特的培训和研究经验;拓宽学生对分子，细胞和系统生物学中后基因组计算和数学研究领域的看法;计算生物学、生物工程学和生物信息学是许多不同领域的交叉点，真正具有跨学科专业知识的个人非常罕见。 BBSI@Pitt将继续对该领域产生广泛的影响，通过密集的跨学科指导，识别和鼓励有前途的年轻学生，为职业选择提供建议和指导，从而有助于改变新一代生物医学计算问题的方法，这些问题的复杂性远远超过前几代人。由数学和物理科学局（MPS）/多学科活动办公室（OMA）和数学科学部（DMS），计算机和信息科学与工程局（CISE）/信息和智能系统部（IIS），工程局/工程教育和中心司（EEC）和国立卫生研究院（NIH）/国立生物医学成像和生物工程研究所（NIBIB）。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the BBSI@PITT:Simulation and Computer Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scales, at the University of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Dr. Ivet Bahar. This program offered since 2002 by the University of Pittsburgh (lead institution), the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Duquesne University, and Carnegie Mellon University, will host a ten week summer program for a total of 39 undergraduate and graduate students, 13 per year, for a total of three years. The students will have strong analytical and quantitative skills and high potential for careers in Computational Biology, Bioengineering, or Bioinformatics. BBSI@Pitt will continue to focus on computational and mathematical approaches to understanding the function and dynamics of molecular and cellular systems using known structure, biochemical pathways and other data, much of which is increasingly accumulated in web accessible dateabases. The objectives of BBSI@Pitt are to provide students with a unique training and research experience through a series of cross-disciplinary lectures, computational laboratory sessions, and independent research opportunities not available in traditional undergraduate programs; broaden the student's view of post-genomic computational and mathematical research areas in molecular, cellular, and systems biology; and motivate students to pursue careers in the field.Computational Biology, Bioengineering, and Bioinformatics exist at the interface of many different fields, and individuals with truly cross-disciplinary expertise are quite rare. BBSI@Pitt will continue to have a broad impact on the field by identifying and encouraging promising young students through intensive cross-disciplinary mentoring, providing advice and guidance for career options, and thus contributing to transforming the new generation's approach to biomedical computing problems of far greater complexity than those accessible to earlier generations.This project is being co-funded by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)/ Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Mathematical Science (DMS), the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)/ Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) , the Directorate for Engineering/ Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).