In-depth Biology Foundations:Quantitative Scientists (RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：来自罗格斯大学和医学和新泽西牙科大学（UMDNJ）的教师建议开发一个新的课程，使学生在数学和物理科学的高级培训，但在生物学的背景较为有限，获得必要的技能，成为生产力的研究人员在生命科学。 该课程将是罗格斯大学和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接口进行研究，体现在最近成立的BioMaPS定量生物学研究所。 在罗格斯大学和UMDNJ的创新教育战略中，新课程将包括关于理解分子，细胞和结构生物学的基本主题的短期课程，并代表领先的定量生物学家的重大持续贡献。 每门课程将提供所选调查领域的基础知识，领先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。 每年将开设一个新专题的课程，为期五年。 讲座和讲座材料将在网上公布，并将为本科生的专题课程编写一本描述性专著。 因此，每个研究生和博士后学生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。 某些研究课题可能会在随后几年的更新课程中重复。 除了在分子和细胞生物学的定量方面的培训的广度和深度，新课程的优势是：1）每年对一个主题的强烈关注将为学生提供对生物学主题的深刻理解，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.