Training Program in Chemistry - Interface with Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：伊利诺伊大学化学科学学院（SCS）提议在化学-生物学界面实施一个培训计划，每年将招收10名博士预科学生（52岁和53岁的学生）。通过在课堂和实验室中分享经验，该项目将培养一批拥有共同语言的化学家、化学和生物分子工程师以及生物学家。该课程的毕业生将有能力在工业界和学术界担任领导职务，并能够在多学科团队中发挥作用，在生物学和医学方面取得重大进展。来自SCS的两个系和分子与细胞生物学学院的四个系（化学、化学与生物分子工程、微生物学、生物化学、细胞与结构生物学、分子与综合生理学）的25名教师将在化学与生物界面工作，担任教师导师。被接收院系博士项目录取的优秀学生将成为该项目的候选人。他们将在完成该部门的课程要求和CBI的课程顺序后获得该部门的博士学位。项目完成需要四到五年的时间。未来的学生将从全国的大学中招募。未被充分代表的少数族裔学生将通过几个UIUC校园项目（MERGE， HURF， SROP），通过参加SACNAS和ACBRMS会议，通过与MARC项目主管的互动，以及通过与拥有大量少数族裔学生的机构的有针对性的合作伙伴关系来招募。生物化学本科专业也将为全国的CBI培训项目提供一条通道。罗杰·亚当斯实验室，化学和生命科学实验室，诺伊斯实验室，以及即将完工的基因组生物学研究所，拥有教师实验室，研讨室，学生和制造设施。贝克曼研究所和生物技术中心拥有额外的设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) at the University of Illinois proposes to implement a training program at the Chemistry - Biology interface that will enroll 10 predoctoral students per year (52nd yr and 53rd yr students). The program will, through shared experiences in the classroom and in the laboratory, produce a cadre of chemists, chemical and biomolecular engineers, and biologists who share a common language. Program graduates will be prepared to assume leadership positions in industry and academe and will be capable of functioning in multidisciplinary teams poised to make major advances in biology and medicine. Twenty-five faculty from two departments in the SCS and four in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology - Chemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Cell & Structural Biology, and Molecular & Integrative Physiology- who work at the chemistry-biology interface will serve as faculty mentors. Talented students admitted to the host departments' doctoral programs will form the pool of candidates for the program. They will receive the PhD from their department after completing both the requirements for that department's program and the course sequence for the CBI. Program completion will take between four and five years. Prospective students will be recruited from among universities nationwide. Underrepresented minority students will be recruited through several UIUC campus-based programs (MERGE, HURF, SROP), through attendance at SACNAS and ACBRMS meetings, through interaction with MARC program directors, and through targeted partnerships with institutions having large minority enrollments. A biological-chemistry undergraduate concentration will also provide a pipeline into CBI training programs nationwide. Roger Adams Lab, the Chemistry and Life Sciences Laboratory, Noyes Lab, and the soon-to-be-completed Institute for Genomic Biology house faculty laboratories, seminar rooms, student and fabrication facilities. The Beckman Institute and the Biotechnology Center house additional facilities.