CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

描述：（摘自申请）此更新提案描述了继续开展强有力的化学-生物学界面（CBI）博士前培训计划的计划，该计划旨在培养基础有机化学和生物化学的关键方面的科学家，以及化学和生物学界面的科学学科。该项目现已进入第五个年头，通过将研究生学术工作集中在跨越化学和生物学科领域的核心课程上，进一步推进了我们最积极和最合格的学生的跨学科培训。每个受训者可以在主要隶属于四个参与单位的16名教员培训师的一个或多个实验室进行他或她的博士论文研究：化学和化学生物学系（DCCB）分子生物学和遗传学学系（DMBG）；神经生物学与行为学系（DNBB）；营养科学部（DNS）。所有参与的教师在化学的各个方面都有很强的研究项目，并得到了美国国立卫生研究院的大量资助。他们的整体研究兴趣广泛分布在合成无机，生物有机，生物物理和聚合物化学，以及x射线晶体学，核磁共振波谱学，蛋白质结构和功能，酶学和免疫学等领域。CBI学员在各自的单位参加核心学科的研讨会（通常每周一次），与教师一起参加一个特殊的每月CBI研讨会计划，并在没有教师在场的情况下组织每月的CBI“文学午餐”。康奈尔大学CBI项目还有两个特点。首先，学员每学期邀请、组织和主持专门的CBI研讨会演讲者。其次，学员必须参加生物技术、生命科学或制药公司的实习，通过这些实习，他们可以接触和体验这些行业的跨学科生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION: (Taken from the Application) This renewal proposal describes plans to continue a vigorous chemistry-biology interface (CBI) predoctoral training program that is designed to train scientists in key aspects of fundamental organic and biological chemistry as well as in scientific disciplines at the interface of chemistry and biology. The program, now in its fifth year, further advances the interdisciplinary training of our most motivated and well-qualified students by focusing their graduate academic work around a core curriculum of courses in areas spanning both chemical and biological disciplines. Each trainee may carry out his or her doctoral thesis research in one or more of the laboratories of the sixteen faculty trainers primarily affiliated with four participating units: the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (DCCB) the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (DMBG); the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (DNBB); and the Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS). All participating faculty have strong research programs in various aspects of chemistry, and are well-funded by the National Institutes of Health. Their overall research interests are broadly distributed over synthetic inorganic, bioorganic, biophysical and polymer chemistry, as well as such fields as x-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, protein structure and function, enzymology, and immunology. CBI trainees attend seminars in their core disciplines (usually weekly) in their respective units, participate together with faculty in a special monthly CBI seminar program, and organize monthly CBI "literature lunches" where no faculty are present. Two additional features distinguish the Cornell CBI program. First, trainees invite, organize, and host special CBI seminar speakers each semester. Secondly, trainees are required to participate in internships in biotech, life science, or pharmaceutical companies, through which they gain exposure to, and experience in, interdisciplinary biomedical research in these respective industries.