Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本建议书是伦斯勒理工学院和沃兹沃斯中心生物分子科学与工程培训计划的更新建议书。该培训计划的目标是加强生物、生物医学工程、化学和生物工程、化学和化学生物学四个系的学生与教学、研究和工业组件之间的互动。培训的结果将使受训者敏锐地了解研究的跨学科性质，它如何依赖于科学和工程的基本基础，它如何导致创新的新科学学科和技术，以及如何开发商业产品。来自上述项目的教员(共23名)以及来自沃兹沃斯的培训人员积极参与了合成生物学(以生物催化、途径整合和构建、糖组学、生物分离和生物材料设计、合成和性质为代表)、生物分子系统(例如结构、功能和分析)以及分子生物学和生物信息学的研究项目。培训计划的主要方面包括：[1]一套~三门课程，最大限度地在关键学科中进行教学培训；[2]一门名为“生物分子科学和工程展望”的核心课程，所有学员都参加；[3]一系列研讨会，建立在RPI和Wadsworth现有的校园研讨会计划的基础上；[4]学生开办的研讨会计划，生物分子科学和工程领域的学员和其他Rensselaer研究生向他们的同行和培训教师介绍他们的研究；[5]负责任的研究行为方面的培训；[6]生物分子科学与工程博士论文工作的联合监督和多学科论文委员会成员；[7]工业实习；[8]年度。一个协调委员会确保受训人员满足这些要求，一个代表不足的少数族裔招募委员会将积极参与确定和招募代表不足的少数群体加入该方案。除了这里建议的每年6个实习生名额外，Rensselaer每年还将支持3名研究所实习生。相关性：该计划的使命和相关性是提供一个综合和多学科的平台，在生物学和工程学的界面上广泛培养一批不同的博士前学生，专注于定义这一界面的量化联系，并为受训人员在生物技术领域的职业生涯做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal represents a renewal proposal for the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wadsworth Center. The objectives of the Training Program are aimed at increased interaction among students from the four departmental disciplines of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Chemistry and Chemical Biology with didactic, research, and industrial components. The outcome of this training will provide the trainee with a keen understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of research, how it depends on fundamental underpinnings in both science and engineering, how it leads to innovative new scientific disciplines and technologies, and how commercial products are developed. Faculty (a total of 23) from the aforementioned programs, as well as trainers from Wadsworth, are actively involved in research programs spanning synthetic biology (represented by biocatalysis, pathway integration and construction, glycomics, bioseparations, and biomaterials design, synthesis, and properties); Biomolecular systems (e.g., structure, function, and analysis); and molecular biology and bioinformatics. Key aspects of the training program include: [1] a set of~ three courses that maximize didactic training among the key disciplines; [2] a core course entitled "Perspectives in Biomolecular Science and Engineering" that is taken by all trainees; [3] seminar series that build on current campus-wide seminar programs at RPI and Wadsworth; [4] a student-run seminar program, where trainees and other Rensselaer graduate students in the area of Biomolecular science and engineering present their research to their peers and training faculty; [5] training in responsible conduct of research; [6] joint supervision and multidisciplinary thesis committee membership for Ph.D. thesis work in Biomolecular science and engineering; [7] an industrial internship; and [8] an annual. A Coordinating Committee ensures that the trainees satisfy these requirements and an Underrepresented Minority Recruitment Committee will be actively engaged in identifying and recruiting underrepresented minorities into the program. In addition to the six trainee slots per year proposed herein, Rensselaer will support three Institute trainees per year. RELEVANCE: The program's mission and relevance is to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary platform to train a diverse cadre of predoctoral students broadly at the interface of biology and engineering, focusing on the quantitative linkages that define this interface and preparing the trainee for a career in biotechnology.