International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System to Gene, July 1-8, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

该项目建议支持2007年7月在土耳其伊斯坦布尔的Bogazici大学举办的从系统到基因的生物复杂性国际暑期班。这个暑期班的主要目的是让生物科学和生物工程本科生和研究生接触到系统生物学中数学和计算挑战的相对较新的方法，以及计算生物学、生物信息学和分子工程研究的新方向，并促进这些数学和计算工具在生物科学中的快速传播。这些方法也将对有兴趣从事生物学、生物分子工程和生物工程研究的计算机科学和数学专业的学生有所帮助，因为暑期班提供了对生物科学的基本挑战的特殊见解。暑期班使用由专家教师面向生物科学学生的讲座，重点是生物数据挖掘和知识发现，可以用来理解高度相互关联的复杂生物系统。除了这些讲座，暑期班将包括两个两小时的小组讨论，本科生和研究生积极参与，重点是计算生物学、生物信息学和分子工程与科学的未来发展。此外，学生将在最终的海报会议上展示他们在系和研究所的研究活动，这将促进对生物学和计算方法的讨论。生物医学工程计划和国际科学与工程办公室将共同资助这个暑期班。

CBET-0732231 Akay This project proposes to support the International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System to Gene in July 2007 at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. The main objective of this summer school is to expose undergraduate and graduate biological science and bioengineering students to the relatively new approaches of the mathematical and computational challenges in Systems Biology and the new directions in computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular engineering research and to facilitate rapid diffusion of these mathematical and computational tools in the biological sciences. These methods will be helpful, also, to students in computer science and mathematics who are interested in pursuing research in biology, biomolecular engineering and bioengineering, since the summer school provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biological sciences.The summer school uses lectures, oriented toward biological science students, by expert faculty and will focus on the biological data mining and knowledge discovery that can be used to understand highly interconnected and complex biological systems. In addition to these lectures, the summer school will include 2 two-hour panel discussion, with active participation of undergraduate and graduate students, focused on future developments in computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular engineering and science. In addition, students will present their research activities in their departments and institutes in a culminating poster session, which will facilitate discussion of both the biology and computational approaches.The Biomedical Engineering Program and Office of International Science and Engineering are co-funding this summer school.