Mathematical Biosciences Institute

现代生物学正处于深刻的变化之中，部分原因是数学科学的思想与生物和生命科学的思想相融合。加速这一融合是一个国家目标，而数学生物科学研究所(MBI)的作用是帮助这一加速。数学、统计学和计算科学中的共同原理有助于在神经科学、流行病学、生态学、基因组学、生理学和癌症等许多领域的科学理解。MBI通过强大的博士后研究员和早期职业研究和培训计划，以及一个将数学和生命科学领域的跨学科研究人员聚集在一起的研讨会计划，为这些互动提供支持。(1)促进在应用数学、统计和计算方法解决生物科学重大问题方面的创新。(2)在生物科学重大问题的推动下，促进数学科学新领域的发展。(3)让数学和生物科学家参与这些研究。(4)通过对学生、博士后研究员和研究人员的教育、培训和支持，扩大数学生物科学的学者群体。MBI将通过其基于数学和生物科学研究人员共同指导的广泛和分散的博士后研究员计划实现这些目标；通过其早期职业培训计划使终身教职但未终身教职的研究人员能够更长时间地参与MBI计划；通过其强大的跨学科研讨会计划；通过其长期访客计划。

Modern biology is in the midst of profound change, owing in part to the convergence of ideas from the mathematical sciences with those in the biological and life sciences. It is a national goal to accelerate this convergence and it is the role of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) to help with this acceleration. Common principles in mathematics, statistics, and computational science are helping scientific understanding in fields as diverse as neuroscience, epidemiology, ecology, genomics, physiology, and cancer, among many others. MBI supports these interactions through robust postdoctoral fellow and early career research and training programs and through a workshop program that brings together interdisciplinary researchers in the mathematical and life sciences.MBI has four principal goals. (1) To foster innovation in the application of mathematical, statistical, and computational methods in the resolution of significant problems in the biosciences. (2) To foster the development of new areas in the mathematical sciences motivated by important questions in the biosciences. (3) To engage mathematical and biological scientists in these pursuits. (4) To expand the community of scholars in mathematical biosciences through education, training, and support of students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers. MBI will achieve these goals through its extensive and distributed postdoctoral fellow program based on co-mentoring by researchers in both the mathematical and biological sciences; through its early career training program that enables tenure-track but untenured researchers to participate in MBI programming for an extended period; through its robust interdisciplinary workshop programs; and through its long-term visitor program.