Postdoctoral Fellowship: A History of the Biology of Systems

这位研究人员是一名博士后研究员，将在他的教师导师的指导下工作，调查二战后1945至1975年间的系统生物学历史。该项目将侧重于使用系统办法的全球人口增长和资源利用的模型和预测。这个项目的结果将使我们能够进一步研究和评估特定的系统应用，并表明系统方法在这些条件下是否有用。这很有可能对我们在气候变化和基因组学等其他领域理解和实施当代系统思维产生广泛影响。一个潜在的改进来源来自于理解系统生物学在调查期间明显失败的原因；对这些明显失败的分析可能对当前的系统学者有用。本文的研究结果将对政策制定者和管理者具有实用价值。

The investigator, a post-doctoral researcher, will work under the guidance of his faculty mentor to investigate the history of systems biology in the post World-War-II period, from 1945 to 1975 . The project will focus on models and projections of global population growth and resource utilization using the systems approach. The results of this project will enable further research and evaluation of particular systems applications and indicate whether the systems approach will be useful in these conditions.There is a strong potential for broad impact on our understanding and implementation of contemporary systems thinking in other areas such as climate change and genomics. One potential source of improvement derives from understanding the causes of the apparent failures of systems biology in the period under investigation; an analysis of these apparent failures could be useful to current systems scholars. The results of this research will have practical value to policy planners and managers.