Graduate Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology at Indiana University Bloom

描述（由申请人提供）：在这项提案中，来自印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校（IUB）五个不同部门和项目的33名导师组成了一个高度合作的小组，包括化学、生物学、分子和细胞生物化学、物理学和印第安纳大学医学院医学科学项目，他们共同发起了一个新的博士前化学-生物学界面（CBI）项目，称为定量和化学生物学培训计划（QCB TP）。QCB计划的中心目标是建立一个研究生培训环境，利用我们在分析化学和仪器开发方面的优势，创造新的教学课程和研究机会，专注于超越传统院系界限的生物医学科学跨学科定量培训。该项目由一名项目主任和一名副主任指导，他们在物理和化学生物学方面都有互补的专业知识，并由一个指导委员会监督，该委员会包括来自四个参与部门研究生项目的培训师。招生委员会将负责确定和定位学生，以获得项目的支持。课程委员会将指导QCB TP学生创建基于主题的电子模块，并监督两门1.5学分的核心课程：定量生物学与测量（C680）和化学生物学导论（C681），以及QCB期刊俱乐部（C689）的发展。课外项目活动包括QCB系列研讨会和一年一度的化学生物技术渡边研讨会，每一次都将学术界和工业界的国际知名化学家带到布卢明顿，与QCB TP学员一起演讲和参观。该计划还将赞助QCB之夜，这是一个每月由学生组织的研究系列研讨会。拟议的QCB计划得到了IUB文理学院强有力的行政支持，该学院在最初五年资助期的前三年提供了六个培训资助名额。在过去三年中，在QCB计划的发展阶段，已有14个名额获得了这一支持；这笔资金用于支持8名学员在毕业后2-3年的1-2年。该项目的一个主要目标是招收和留住来自IUB生命科学领域代表性不足群体的学生；这将通过QCB TP招聘委员会与化学多样性事务委员会的密切合作来实现，该委员会负责在这一领域发挥全校范围内的重要作用。并提出了负责任研究行为教学的建议。该计划目标的成功实现将极大地改变IUB研究生教育的面貌和化学，物理和生命科学的成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this proposal, a highly collaborative group of thirty-three preceptors drawn from five different departments and programs at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB) including Chemistry, Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Physics, and the Program in Medical Sciences of the IU School of Medicine, have come together to initiate a new predoctoral chemistry-biology interface (CBI) program termed the Quantitative and Chemical Biology Training Program (QCB TP). The central objective of the QCB TP is to build a graduate training environment that leverages our strengths in analytical chemistry and instrumentation development to create new didactic courses and research opportunities focused on interdisciplinary quantitative training in the biomedical sciences that transcends traditional departmental boundaries. The program is directed by a Program Director and an Associate Director, each with complementary expertise in physical and chemical biology, and is overseen by a Steering Committee which includes trainers from four participating departmental graduate programs. The Recruitment Committee will be responsible for identifying and targeting students for support by the program. The Curriculum Committee will direct the creation of topic-based e-modules by QCB TP students, and oversee the development of two 1.5 credit core courses, Quantitative Biology and Measurement (C680) and Introduction to Chemical Biology (C681), as well as QCB Journal Club (C689). Extracurricular programmatic activities include a QCB Seminar Series and the annual Watanabe Symposium in Chemical Biotechnology, each of which brings internationally prominent chemists to Bloomington from academia and industry alike to lecture and visit with QCB TP trainees. The program will also sponsor QCB Evenings, a monthly student-organized research seminar series. The proposed QCB TP enjoys strong administrative support from the College of Arts and Sciences at IUB, which has offered a match of six training, grant slots over the first three years of the initial five-year funding period. Ths support comes on top of 14 slots already committed over the last three years in the developmental phase of the QCB TP; this been used to support eight trainees for 1-2 years in years 2-3 of their graduate careers. A major goal of the program is to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups in the life sciences at IUB; this will be accomplished by close association of the QCB TP Recruitment Committee with the Diversity Affairs Committee in Chemistry charged with leveraging significant campus-wide efforts in this area. A proposal for teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research is also outlined. Successful achievement of the goals of this program will dramatically change the face of graduate student education and outcomes in the chemical, physical and life sciences at IUB.