Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

项目总结/摘要 该提案要求在分子生物学领域支持10名博士前培训人员。 生物物理学，主要来自生物物理学跨部门研究生组， 以及化学系、分子和细胞生物学系。26训练 教师是从上述和物理系， 生物工程，化学和生物分子工程，植物和微生物 生物学我们的教师在各自领域的世界领导者，包括五名成员， 美国国家科学院，五名霍华德休斯医学研究所研究员， 最近获得生命科学突破奖。分子生物物理学 培训补助金是加州大学伯克利分校唯一的培训计划，专注于分子 生物物理学和唯一的培训补助金，支持研究生培训内 生物物理学研究生组。 该计划的目标是培养未来的领导者在应用最 强大的基于物理学的技术和概念， 和社会上的重要问题。我们有一个持续的生产记录 已成为学术界，工业界和政府研究领导者的毕业生 laboratories.我们通过一个综合计划来实现这一目标，该计划的四大支柱是： 第一年进行三次实验室轮换，第二年进行指导研究 一年及以后; 2）生物物理建模和物理生物化学核心课程; 3)通过每月午餐会，与内部和外部的网络， 外部演讲人、年度务虚会和学员会议出席情况; 4） 道德行为和科学诚信、严谨性和可重复性。

Project Summary / Abstract This proposal requests support for ten predoctoral trainees in the field of molecular biophysics, drawn principally from the interdepartmental Graduate Group in Biophysics, and the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology. The 26 training faculty are drawn from the foregoing and from the Departments of Physics, Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Plant and Microbial Biology. Our faculty are world leaders in their fields and include five members of the National Academy of Sciences, five Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and a recent recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. The Molecular Biophysics Training Grant is the only training program at UC Berkeley focussing on molecular biophysics and the only training grant that supports graduate training within the Graduate Group in Biophysics. The goal of the program is to train future leaders in the application of the most powerful physics-based technologies and concepts to the most intractable, medically, and societally important problems. We have a sustained track record of producing graduates who have become leaders in academia, industry, and government research laboratories. We accomplish this with an integrated program whose four pillars are 1) three laboratory rotations in the first year, followed by mentored research in the second year and beyond; 2) core coursework in biophysical modeling and physical biochemistry; 3) career development through monthly lunch meetings, networking with internal and external speakers, an annual retreat, and trainee conference attendance; 4) training in ethical conduct and scientific integrity, rigor, and reproducibility.