MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM AT VANDERBILT

该提案要求为继续在范德比尔特大学开展分子生物物理学培训方案提供资金，在拟议供资期开始时为8名受训人员提供资金，最后一年增加到10名。35培训教师提供培训机会，在分子生物物理学的各种问题，使用广泛的物理，化学和计算方法。虽然该计划吸引了来自七个不同部门的培训教师，但它植根于高度合作的研究和教育工作的既定网络。学员有机会获得博士学位。在由培训教师代表的七个学科领域中的任何一个：生物化学，化学，分子生物学，分子生理学和生物物理学，病理学，药理学或物理学，或者他们可以发展博士学位。分子生物物理学个人研究计划。所有受训人员，不论其专业领域如何，都要完成核心课程。核心课程的目的是为选择生物科学浓度的学员提供比这些领域典型的物理科学更深的基础，并为选择物理科学浓度的学员提供比这些领域的学生更全面的生物科学。作为核心课程的一部分，所有学员都参加了分子生物物理学研究生研讨会。分子生物物理学研究生研讨会被视为该计划的焦点，在该计划中，采用不同方法解决分子生物物理学问题的学员将发展共同语言并相互交流思想。

This proposal requests funds for continuation of the Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Vanderbilt University at the level of eight trainees at the beginning of the proposed funding period, rising to ten in the final year. Thirty-five training faculty offer training opportunities in a wide range of problems in Molecular Biophysics using a broad spectrum of physical, chemical, and computation approaches. Though the Program draws its training faculty from seven different departments, its is rooted in an established network of highly collaborative research and educational efforts. Trainees are offered the opportunity to earn a Ph.D. in any of the seven disciplinary areas represented by the training faculty: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Pathology, Pharmacology, or Physics, or they may develop a Ph.D. program of Individual Studies in Molecular Biophysics. All trainees, without regard to area of concentration, complete a core curriculum. The intent of the core curriculum is to provide trainees who choose a biological sciences concentration a deeper grounding in the physical sciences than is typical for those areas and to provide trainees who choose a physical sciences concentration a more thorough exposure to the biological sciences than is usual for students in those areas. As part of the core curriculum, all trainees participate in the Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biophysics. The Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biophysics is viewed as a focal point for the Program, in which trainees who employ diverse approaches to problems in Molecular Biophysics develop a common language and cross-fertilize each other's ideas.