Indepth Biology Foundations:Quantitative Scientists(RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：来自罗格斯大学和新泽西医学和牙科大学（UMDNJ）的教师提议开发一门新课程，使学生能够在数学和物理科学方面接受高级培训，但在生物学方面的背景有限，从而获得成为生命科学领域富有成效的研究人员所必需的技能。该课程将成为罗格斯大学和UMDNJ广泛努力的重要组成部分，以在生物学与数学和物理科学的界面上进行研究，这些研究体现在最近成立的BioMaPS定量生物学研究所中。在罗格斯大学和UMDNJ大学的一项创新教育战略中，新课程将包括短期课程，这些课程的主题是理解分子、细胞和结构生物学的基础，并代表了领先的定量生物学家的重要贡献。每门课程都将提供所选研究领域的基础知识，顶尖科学家对这些领域当前贡献的高级评论，以及需要定量研究的新发现的生物学观察。每年将开设一个新主题的课程，为期五年。授课内容和授课材料将在网上发布，并将为本科生专题课程编写一篇说明性专著。因此，每个研究生和博士后将在几年的时间里熟悉当前研究的几个领域，本科生将接触到定量生物学的问题。某些研究主题可能会在随后几年的课程更新中重复。除了分子和细胞生物学定量方面的培训的广度和深度外，新课程的优势在于：1)每年对一个主题的高度集中将使学生对生物学主题有深入的了解；2)具有更传统生物学背景的学生可以熟悉当前的研究进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Faculty members from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) propose to develop a new curriculum that will enable students with advanced training in mathematics and the physical sciences, but with a more limited background in biology, to acquire the skills necessary to become productive researchers in the life sciences. The curriculum will be a significant part of the extensive effort at Rutgers and UMDNJ to perform research at the interface of biology with the mathematical and physical sciences embodied in the recently-established BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. In an innovative strategy for education at Rutgers and UMDNJ, the new curriculum will include short courses on topics that are fundamental for understanding molecular, cellular, and structural biology and representative of significant ongoing contributions from leading quantitative biologists. Each course will provide the basics of the selected area of inquiry, advanced reviews of current contributions in these fields by leading scientists, and newly discovered biological observations in need of quantitative investigation. A course on a new topic will be offered every year for five years. The lectures and lecture materials will be posted on the web, and a descriptive monograph will be prepared for a special topics course for undergraduates. Thus, each graduate and post-doctoral student will, over the course of several years, become familiar with several areas of current research, and undergraduates will be exposed to problems in quantitative biology. Certain topics of research may be repeated with updated curricula in subsequent years. In addition to both the breadth and depth of the training in quantitative aspects of molecular and cellular biology, advantages of the new curriculum are: 1) the intense concentration on a theme each year will provide students with a deep understanding of a biological topic and 2) students with a more traditional biological background can become familiar with current research developments.