Training Program in Molecular Biophysics

描述（由申请人提供）：这是华盛顿大学分子生物物理学培训补助金的第二次续期申请。分子生物物理学研究生课程是生物和生物医学科学系的十二个博士课程之一。它专注于生物系统的定量方面，并要求学生具有重要的数学和物理背景，这在华盛顿大学是独一无二的。现任项目主任凯瑟琳·霍尔博士自1997年以来一直负责该项目，预计将继续担任该职位至少几年。她也是培训补助金的私家侦探。她由教师指导委员会和部门办公室的项目协调员协助管理该项目。该项目已实施11年，培养了20名博士研究生。我们的统计数据显示，在过去的五年里，申请的学生数量保持相对稳定，被录取的人数也是如此。目前，该项目有15名学生，包括两名代表性不足的少数民族学生。本项目现有教职工40人，其中初级教职工4人。他们来自医学院的七个系，也来自生物、化学、物理、生物医学工程和丹佛斯植物科学中心。分子生物物理学研究生课程维护着一个网站，上面列出了教师、当前和过去的学生以及事件。该年度静修活动始于1994年，与生物化学和生物有机化学研究生项目联合进行，在网站上有相关记录。每个月都有生物物理之夜，展示我们的教师或介绍生物物理学的新发展；这些始于1992年。项目活动部分由该司和生物化学与分子生物物理系支持。此培训补助金资助五个培训职位。根据我们的录取和招生统计数据，这个数字适合我们的分子生物物理学项目，所以在这次更新中，我们要求每年5名学生的水平的五年支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the second renewal application of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant at Washington University. The Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program is one of twelve Ph.D. Programs within the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Its focus on quantitative aspects of biological systems, and its requirement for significant math and physics backgrounds of its students make it unique at Washington University. The current Program Director, Dr. Kathleen Hall, has been responsible for the Program since 1997, and is expected to continue in this position for at least several more years. She is also P.I. on the Training Grant. She is assisted in administration of the Program by a steering committee of faculty and a Program coordinator in the Division office. The Program has been in place for eleven years, and has graduated twenty students with Ph.D. degrees. Our statistics show that the number of students who apply has remained relatively constant over the past five years, as has the number that matriculate. Currently, there are fifteen students in the Program, including two underrepresented minority students. There are 40 faculty members affiliated with the Program, four of whom are junior faculty. They come from seven Departments in the Medical School, and also from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and the Danforth Plant Science Center. The Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program maintains a web site that lists faculty, current and past students, and events. The annual retreat, begun in 1994, joint with the Biochemistry and Bioorganic Chemistry graduate Programs, is documented on the web site. There are monthly Biophysical Evenings that showcase our faculty or introduce new developments in Biophysics; these began in 1992. Program activities are supported in part by the Division and by the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics. There are five training positions funded by this Training Grant. Based on our admission and recruitment statistics, that number is appropriate for our Molecular Biophysics Program, and so with this renewal, we request five years of support at the level of five students per year.