CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

描述：(摘自申请书)这份续订建议书描述了继续积极开展化学-生物接口(CBI)博士前培训计划的计划，该计划旨在培训基础有机和生物化学的关键方面的科学家以及化学和生物接口的科学学科的科学家。该计划现已进入第五个年头，通过将研究生的学术工作重点放在跨越化学和生物学科的核心课程上，进一步推进了对最有积极性和最合格的学生的跨学科培训。每个受训人员可以在16个教员培训者的一个或多个实验室进行博士论文研究，这些培训者主要隶属于四个参与单位：化学和化学生物学系(DCCB)、分子生物学和遗传学系(DMBG)、神经生物学和行为系(DNBB)和营养科学系(DNS)。所有参与的教职员工在化学的各个方面都有强大的研究计划，并得到了国立卫生研究院的充足资金。他们的总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射线结晶学、核磁共振光谱、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(通常是每周)，与教员一起参加每月CBI特别研讨会项目，并在没有教员出席的情况下组织每月CBI“文学午餐”。康奈尔CBI计划的两个额外特点是不同的。首先，学员每学期邀请、组织和主持CBI专题研讨会的演讲者。其次，受训人员需要参加生物技术、生命科学或制药公司的实习，通过实习，他们可以接触到这些行业的跨学科生物医学研究，并获得经验。

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.