Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是杜克大学计算生物学和生物信息学（CBB）培训补助金申请的重新提交。CBB是一个研究生课程。它承认自己的学生和赠款博士学位。它的使命是教育下一代的科学家谁将在生命科学和定量科学之间的接口工作。CBB支持学生的头两年，之后他们转向教师的支持。该计划旨在每年招收约10名新生。这个提案要求十个名额，这将支持一半的学生。该计划通常需要五年的时间才能完成，它体现了广泛的学术活动，包括三个核心课程和三个研究轮换，都在第一年，所需的研讨会系列，仔细的RCR培训，以及跨学科的指导和监督。该计划由一个异常广泛，但整合良好的教师群体支持。该学院的研究领域相当广泛，分为六个领域：系统生物学，基因组分析，计算结构生物学，基因组医学，进化基因组学和生物系统的数学和统计建模。学生们做好了充分的准备，在合作研究小组中工作，生物学家和计算科学家为解决真实的生物问题做出共同的智力贡献。 CBB正在完成其第五年的初始资金从NIH。这五年来，杜克大学的计算生物学有了显着的增长，该计划现在包括来自三所学校和一个研究所的15个部门的57名教师（24名定量部门和33名生物部门）。优秀的学生已经被招募到该计划和保留是优秀的49名学生已被录取，因为该计划开始已经完成了他们的博士学位或取得良好进展的43。毕业生做得非常好，6人在著名机构担任博士后职位，4人担任工业职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a resubmission of an application for a training grant for the Duke University Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB). CBB is a graduate program. It admits its own students and grants the PhD. Its mission is to educate the next generation of scientists who will work at the interface between the life sciences and the quantitative sciences. CBB supports students for their first two years, after which they move onto support from the faculty. The program aims to admit around ten new students each year. This proposal requests ten slots, which would support half the students. The program typically takes five years to complete, and it embodies a wide range of academic activities, including three core courses and three research rotations, all taken in the first year, a required seminar series, careful RCR training, and interdisciplinary mentoring and supervision. The program is supported by an unusually broad, but well integrated group of faculty. Research areas of the faculty are quite broad, and are grouped into six areas: Systems Biology, Genome Analysis, Computational Structural Biology, Genomic Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics and Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of Biological Systems. Students emerge well prepared to work in collaborative research groups where biologists and computational scientists make joint intellectual contributions to solving real biological problems. CBB is completing its fifth year of initial funding from the NIH. These five years have seen significant growth of computational biology at Duke University, the program now includes 57 faculty (24 in quantitative departments and 33 in biological ones) from 15 departments in three schools and one Institute. Excellent students have bee recruited into the Program and retention is excellent with 43 of the 49 students that have been admitted since the program began having finished their PhD or making good progress towards their degree. Graduates have done extremely well, 6 have taken postdoctoral positions at prestigious institutions and 4 have taken strong industrial positions.