SAVI: Student Research Network in the Physics of Living Systems (PoLS)

SAVI：生命系统物理学生研究网络（PoLS）该项目的目标是让pi加入生命系统物理学生研究网络（PoLS SRN），以促进对物理和生物学界面研究感兴趣的科学家之间的国内和国际互动。哈佛大学在支持生物学和物理学交叉领域的研究和教育方面有着悠久的传统，物理系和生物系都做出了成功的努力。哈佛大学研究生培训的优势之一是哈佛大学科学界的绝对广度。加入PoLS网络将利用哈佛大学在国家和国际层面上的这些多样化且经常是实验性的经验，使其他PoLS机构受益。作为回报，哈佛在生命系统物理学方面的努力将受益于其他PoLS机构的互补智力、教育和研究活动。ppi还期望PoLS网络将在纯粹的哈佛本地层面上产生协同效应，特别是在工程与应用科学学院、哈佛物理系和FAS系统生物学中心之间。生命科学的未来掌握在年轻的研究人员手中，并且越来越多地掌握在包括物理、工程和计算机科学在内的多个学科的科学家手中。PoLS网络汇集了美国和国外的大学，他们共同的愿景是，跨机构和国家的研究和培训伙伴关系将利用以前未开发的互补智力和教育优势。ppi们赞同这一观点，并建议哈佛大学加入ppi网络。哈佛大学的参与将创造新的以学生为主导的合作，并将加强现有的合作，从而对有助于解释细胞和生物体的结构、行为和进化的一般原理产生新的见解。在生命科学领域工作的下一代研究人员需要精通物理科学的方法论和分子生物学的实验实践。弥合物理和生物学的文化类似于（并受益于）弥合其他文化差异，例如机构和国家之间的文化差异。到另一个实验室进行研究实习或参加研讨会可以使学生接触到不同的智力环境，接触到新的问题和技术。这些接触催化了学生对其原始专业之外的方法的欣赏的深刻变化，并激励他们更流利地使用不同领域的语言。拟议中的跨机构和跨国网络将创建一个新的社区，培养学生的创造力，鼓励他们在开发新方法时的好奇心和无畏精神。出于同样的原因，来自代表性不足的少数民族和处境不利背景的学生将特别受益于PoLS网络拟议的活动。该奖项被指定为跨虚拟研究所（SAVI）科学奖，由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室、物理部的生命系统物理学项目、分子和细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理学项目以及MPS的多学科活动办公室共同资助。

SAVI: Student Research Network in the Physics of Living Systems (PoLS)The goal of this project is for the PIs to join the Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network (PoLS SRN) to foster national and international interactions among scientists interested in research at the interpface of physics and biology. Harvard has a long tradition of supporting research and education at the interface of biology and physics with successful efforts originating from both physics and biology departments. One of the strengths of graduate student training at Harvard is the sheer breadth of Harvard's scientific community. Joining the PoLS network will leverage these diverse and often experimental experiences at Harvard at a national and international level to the benefit of other PoLS institutions. In return, Harvard efforts in the physics of living systems will benefit from complementary intellectual, educational and research activities at other PoLS institutions. The PIs also expect that the PoLS network will have synergistic effects at a purely local Harvard level, especially between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Physics Department, and the FAS Center for Systems Biology, which host the participating faculty. The future of life sciences lies is in the hand of young researchers, and increasingly in the hands of scientists whose training spans multiple disciplines including physics, engineering, and computer sciences. The PoLS network brings together universities in the US and abroad who share the vision that research and training partnerships across institutions and countries will harness previously unexploited complementary intellectual and educational strengths. The PIs share this view and propose that Harvard join the PoLS network. Harvard's participation will create new student-led collaborations and will strengthen existing ones, leading to new insights into general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior, and evolution of cells and organisms. The next generation of researchers working in the life sciences needs to be versed in both the methodologies of the physical sciences and the experimental practices of molecular biology. Bridging the cultures of physics and biology resembles (and benefits from) bridging other cultural differences, for example between institutions and countries. Traveling to another laboratory for a research internship or to a workshop exposes students to a different intellectual environment and to new problems and techniques. These encounters catalyze a profound change in students' appreciation for approaches outside their original expertise and motivate them to be more fluent in the language of a different field. The proposed trans-institutional and trans-national network will create a new community that fosters students creativity and encourages their curiosity and fearlessness in developing new approaches. For the same reasons students from underrepresented minority and disadvantaged backgrounds will particularly benefit from the proposed activities in the PoLS network. This award is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is being co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering as well as by the Physics of Living Systems Program in the Physics Division, the Molecular Biophysics Program in Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in MPS.