EMSW21-RTG: Enhanced Training and Recruitment in Mathematical Biology

这项研究和培训基金将利用杜克大学数学系的数学生物学项目来加强对美国国民进入数学科学领域的招聘。其目标是吸引更多优秀的本科生进入数学生物学领域，为研究生水平的数学生物学家提供优秀和广泛的培训，并增加年轻博士后研究经验的多样性。数学生物学家。本科生、研究生和博士后将被整合到数学系六个垂直整合的跨学科研究小组中的一个或多个：(1)肾脏生理学（Harold和Anita Layton）；(2)心脏电生理（David Schaeffer）；(3)系统生物学和基因组学（John Harer）；(4)图像分割和背侧闭合（Stephanos Venakides）；(5)细胞代谢数学模型（Michael Reed）；(6)数据驱动推理和生物结构（乔纳森·马丁利）。这六个研究小组的教师在成功指导本科生、研究生和博士后研究项目，以及招聘和培训女性和其他代表性不足的群体方面都有很好的记录。这些指导和招聘活动的成功是这些教师的重要优先事项，也是本研究培训基金的中心目标。为了实现该项目的目标，本科生将在暑期在项目教师的指导下进行研究，更多的研究生将在新的研究生课程中招募和培训，博士后将与项目教师一起进行研究。此外，每年都会有一个夏季研讨会，目标是东南地区小型学院的学生，他们可能对研究生学位知之甚少，也很少有机会学习数学生物学。该计划的一个特别目标是招募妇女和其他代表性不足的群体进入数学科学领域。由于有许多教师从事数学生物学的研究，并且靠近杜克医学中心和杜克环境学院，杜克大学数学系是学习数学生物学和实现吸引美国国民进入数学科学的目标的绝佳地点。

This Research and Training Grant will use the mathematical biology program of the Mathematics Department at Duke University to enhance the recruitment of American nationals into the mathematical sciences. The goals are to attract more excellent undergraduates into mathematical biology, to provide excellent and expanded training of mathematical biologists at the graduate level, and to increase the diversity of research experiences of young post-Ph.D. mathematical biologists. The undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be integrated into one or more of the six vertically integrated interdisciplinary research groups in the Mathematics Department: (1) Kidney physiology (Harold and Anita Layton); (2) Electrophysiology of the heart (David Schaeffer); (3) Systems biology and genomics (John Harer); (4) Image segmentation and dorsal closure (Stephanos Venakides); (5) Mathematical models of cell metabolism (Michael Reed); (6) Data driven inference and biological structure (Jonathan Mattingly). The faculty members in the six research groups have very good track records in successful mentoring of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research projects, as well as recruiting and training women and other under-represented groups. The success of these mentoring and recruitment activities is an important priority for these faculty members and is the central goal of this Research Training Grant. To achieve the goals of the program, the undergraduates will conduct research in the summers mentored by program faculty, more graduate students will be recruited and trained in new graduate courses, and postdoctoral fellows will conduct research with program faculty. In addition, each year there will be a summer workshop that targets students at small colleges in the Southeast who may have little knowledge about graduate degrees and few opportunities to study mathematical biology. A particular goal of the program is to recruit women and other under-represented groups into the mathematical sciences. Because of the many faculty members conducting research in mathematical biology, and the proximity of the Duke Medical Center and the Duke School of the Environment, the Mathematics Department at Duke is an excellent location to study mathematical biology and to achieve the goal of attracting American nationals into the mathematical sciences.