REU Site: Quantitative Rules of Life: General Theories across Biological Systems

该REU网站奖授予位于新墨西哥州圣达菲的圣达菲研究所（SFI），将在2024-2026年夏季为8名学生提供为期10周的培训。预计共有24名学生将接受该项目的培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校或代表性不足的群体。被选中参加这个项目的学生将有一个独特的机会参与以生命的数量规则为中心的前沿研究。该计划提供的独立性和代理权将使学生研究人员接触关键问题和新兴研究方向，使他们参与新颖，有影响力的研究，并鼓励他们追求自己的科学思想。SFI将在项目之外提供合作和支持网络。一个在线工具将被用来评估该计划的有效性。该计划旨在通过开发利用计算机科学、物理学和数学的新的交叉理论工具来满足生物学的前沿。定义和理解生命的定量规则需要许多学科的投入，而SFI作为跨学科研究的公认领导者，是这种整合的理想家园。学生将拥有自己项目的方向和方法，并在SFI教师中的一位专家导师的指导下完成研究过程。学生将扩展他们对生物普遍规律的新兴和多样化科学的理解，并为有价值的前沿研究做出贡献。本课程将训练学生运用共同的理论原理来识别调节生物学多个尺度的法律，从单细胞到生物体和整个生态系统。学生将由圣达菲学院的导师池和教育办公室选出。这个和其他学生的机会可以通过NSF ETAP系统找到。该项目由生物科学理事会生物基础设施司和促进竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU Site award to the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), located in Santa Fe, NM, will support the training of 8 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2024-2026. It is anticipated that a total of 24 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or from an under-represented group, will be trained in the program. Students chosen for this program will have a unique opportunity to participate in frontier research centered on the Quantitative Rules of Life. The independence and agency afforded by the program will expose student researchers to key questions and emerging research directions, engage them in novel, impactful research, and encourage the pursuit of their scientific ideas. SFI will provide a network of collaboration and support extending beyond the program. An online tool will be used to assess the effectiveness of the program.The program aims to meet the frontier of biology by developing new cross-cutting theoretical tools that draw on computer science, physics, and mathematics. Defining and understanding the Quantitative Rules of Life requires input from many disciplines, and SFI is an ideal home for such integration as a recognized leader in interdisciplinary research. Students will have ownership over the direction and approaches of their project and be guided through the research process by one of our expert mentors from among SFI’s faculty. Students will expand their understanding of the emerging and diverse science of universal laws in biology and contribute to meritorious, frontier research. This program will train students to apply common theoretical principles to identify laws that regulate multiple scales of biology, from single cells to organisms and entire ecosystems. Students will be selected by the mentor pool and the education office at the Santa Fe Institute. This and other student opportunities can be found via the NSF ETAP system. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate of Biological Sciences and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.