Michigan Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：密歇根大学建议为一组选定的博士生继续进行博士前化学-生物学界面（CBI）培训计划。这项新培训计划要求的学生人数为10人，为期5年。参与单位为文理艺术学院化学系；医学院生物化学系和药学系；生物物理研究司；化学生物学博士（CB IDP）项目和药学院药物化学系。CBI培训项目的教师包括合成有机和无机化学家、生物有机化学家、生物分析化学家、蛋白质化学家、机械酶学家、光谱学家和晶体学家。博士学位授予化学、生物化学、化学生物学、药理学和药物化学。学生将从博士课程的第二年开始获得为期两年的培训资助。培训计划的课程包括一个新颖的学生假期，在毕业前完成，最好是在培训补助金的支持下。为了加强学生之间的互动，并为学员提供更多的机会来展示他们的研究，我们设立了一个每月一次的午餐会，由现在和过去的CBI学员参加。每年两次，为了促进两个项目学生之间的互动，来自较大的CB IDP的学生。此外，为提供职业咨询，还举办了研讨会和与CBI学员的个别会议。化学生物学的两门核心课程，以及学员向培训计划教员和其他学员展示他们的研究成果的定期安排机会，也是该计划不可或缺的一部分。受训者的研究机会是多种多样的，涉及在化学和生物学界面研究方面具有广泛专业知识的教师。学员可以在这个界面上使用现代研究中最先进的技术和仪器。培训计划的教师在合作研究方面有着悠久的历史，这种互动的研究方法是培训这四个基本学科的新一代科学家的中心主题。在接下来的五年里，CBI项目将成为密歇根大学新的跨学科生命科学计划的主要贡献者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Michigan proposes to continue a predoctoral Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program for a selected group of Ph.D. students. The number of students requested for this new training program is 10 for a five-year period of support. The participating units are the Department of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; the Departments of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Medical School; the Biophysics Research Division (BRD); the Chemical Biology Ph.D. (CB IDP) program and he Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy. The faculty of the CBI Training Program includes synthetic organic and inorganic chemists, bioorganic chemists, bioanalytical chemists, protein chemists, mechanistic enzymologists, spectroscopists, and crystallographers. The Ph.D. degrees will be awarded in Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Pharmacology, and Medicinal Chemistry. Students will be appointed to the training grant for two years beginning in the second year of their Ph.D. program. The curriculum of the Training Program includes a novel student sabbatical to be completed before graduation and, preferably, while the trainee is supported by the training grant. In an effort to enhance interaction between students and provide more opportunity for trainees to present their research, we have instituted a monthly luncheon that is attended by present and past CBI trainees. Twice per year, students from the larger CB IDP in order to foster interactions between students of both programs. In addition, seminars and individual meetings with CBI trainees have been implemented in order to provide career counseling. Two core courses in Chemical Biology and regularly scheduled opportunities for the trainees to present their research results to the Training Program Faculty and fellow trainees are also integral to the program. Research opportunities for the trainees are varied and involve faculty with a wide range of expertise in research at the interface of chemistry and biology. The trainees have access to the most sophisticated techniques and instrumentation in modern research at this interface. The faculty of the Training Program has a long history of collaborative research and this interactive approach to research is a central theme in the training of a new generation of scientists in these four basic disciplines. During the next five years, the CBI Program is positioned to be a major contributor to the new interdisciplinary Life Sciences Initiative at the University of Michigan.