NANOBIOLOGY INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT(RMI)

描述(由申请人提供)： 拟议的纳米生物学培训计划(NBTP)建立在墨西哥湾沿岸财团凯克中心多机构、多学科培训工作的强大历史基础上。NBTP汇集了四个机构-贝勒医学院、赖斯大学、休斯顿大学和德克萨斯大学休斯顿分校-将建立在纳米生物学学科将产生的领域的广泛专业知识的基础上。随着纳米生物学应用的探索，将需要同时开发工具、概念和人员。必须采用一种新的课程方法，将这一新领域从业者所需的专门知识要素结合在一起。我们将邀请高级博士后和博士后实习生参加顶峰课程，以设计满足这一领域学生需求的课程。 学员将被要求在两个不同的家长学科中有导师，在共同导师的实验室中的一段短暂的休假时间将是培训经验的重要部分。受训者将在三个不同的领域-成像、建模和材料-研究纳米生物学的重要问题。这些领域中的每一个都对这一领域的发展至关重要，培训人员在每个领域都拥有强大的专业知识。教师来自所有四个参与机构，参与的标准是对新出现的纳米生物学问题的强烈兴趣和对这一培训计划的承诺。 该项目为博士后和博士后学员提供的核心支持高度利用了凯克中心的有效基础设施、非重叠培训项目的记录以及在令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究背景下为博士前和博士后培训提供的激励和强大的智力环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Nanobiology Training Program (NBTP) proposed builds on a strong history of multi-institutional, multidisciplinary training efforts in the Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia. Bringing together four institutions - Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, and University of Texas-Houston - the NBTP will build on the extensive expertise in areas from which the discipline of nanobiology will emerge. As nanobiology applications are explored, concurrent development of tools, concepts, and people will be required. A novel approach to curricula will be essential to bring together the elements of expertise that will be required for the practitioner in this nascent area. We will engage advanced pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees in a capstone course to design curricula that meet the needs of students in this area. Trainees will be required to have mentors in two different parent disciplines, and a mini-sabbatical period in the co-mentor's laboratory will be an essential part of the training experience. Trainees will work on important problems of nanobiology in three different areas - imaging, modeling, and materials. Each of these areas is crucial to the development of this area, and strong expertise in the training faculty is found in each of the areas. The faculty is drawn from all four participating institutions, and criteria for engagement are strong interest in emerging nanobiology problems and commitment to this training program. Core support provided for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees in this program is highly leveraged by the effective infrastructure of the Keck Center, the track record of non-overlapping training programs, and a stimulating and robust intellectual environment for pre- and post-doctoral training embedded in an exciting and challenging research context.