An Institutional NRSA in Molecular Biophysics

描述(申请人提供)：分子生物物理学(MB)培训计划的目标是为分子生物物理学和计算生物学的研究生涯培养高素质的学生，这两个领域将服务于生物和医学研究中技术和计算/生物信息学的爆炸性增长。受训者可以从大量的、高度多样化的教员研究导师(30人)中进行选择，这些导师拥有许多国家优先考虑的领域的项目。该培训计划吸引了一批高素质和不同地理位置的学生。我们正在努力通过一些努力提高少数民族学生的代表性。除了直接参与教师到少数族裔机构和会议的招聘旅行之外，少数族裔受训人员最近还成立了代表不足科学家组织(我们)，以加强他们自己的作用。在重组生命科学之后，提供了资源，用于建设与甲基溴培训方案特别相关的几个领域，包括结构生物学和生物信息学。该大学还通过招聘新的化学和物理专业人员，建立了生物、化学和物理的接口。这些努力为该项目增加了几名优秀的新教师。该计划让学生完全可以使用该机构的所有参与教职员工和设施，同时为他们提供相对较小的院系的支持性氛围。该计划的新进展包括，当受训人员第一次参加该计划时，通过研究实验室进行标准化轮换，开设科学伦理课程，并每月向受训人员介绍情况。实习生组织的年度研讨会仍然是每年的高潮。新的化学和生命科学实验室于1998年被占用，耗资8000万美元的后基因组学研究所已获得州立法机构的批准。生物技术中心(核苷酸和蛋白质测序、氨基酸分析、寡核苷酸和肽合成、DNA阵列技术、杂交瘤、多克隆抗体和转基因动物的生产、流式细胞仪、发酵)、化学科学服务设施(核磁共振、电子自旋共振、质谱分析)、贝克曼研究所(成像和电子显微镜)和国家超级计算应用中心拥有世界级的研究支持设施。伊利诺伊大学图书馆是美国第三大大学图书馆，与生物、化学和医学的子图书馆非常接近。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Molecular Biophysics (MB) Training Program is to prepare highly qualified students for research careers in molecular biophysics and computational biology, areas that will serve the explosive growth of technology and computation/bioinformatics in biological and medical research. Trainees can choose from a substantial and highly diverse group of faculty research mentors (30) with projects in many areas of high national priority. The training program attracts a highly qualified and geographically diverse group of students. We are striving to improve the representation of minority students through a number of efforts. In addition to direct faculty involvement in recruiting trips to minority institutions and conferences, minority trainees have recently founded the Organization for Under-Represented Scientists (OURS) to enhance their own role. Following the reorganization of the life sciences, resources were made available to build in several areas of particular relevance to the MB training program, including structural biology and bioinformatics. The University has also built at the interface of biology, chemistry and physics through new hires in Chemistry and Physics. These efforts have added several outstanding new faculty to the program. The program gives students full access to all participating faculty and facilities of the institution while providing them with the supportive atmosphere of relatively small departments. New developments in the program include standardized rotations through research labs when the trainees first enter the program, a course in scientific ethics and monthly trainee presentations. The trainee-organized annual symposium continues to be a high point of each year. The new Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory was occupied in 1998, and an $80 million Post-genomics Institute has been approved by the State legislature. World class research support facilities are available in the Biotechnology Center (nucleotide and protein sequencing, amino acid analysis, oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis, DNA array technology, production of hybridomas, polyclonal antibodies and transgenic animals, flow cytometry, fermentation), Chemical Sciences Service Facilities (NMR, ESR, mass spectrometry), Beckman Institute (imaging and electron microscopy), and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The University of Illinois Libarary is the 3rd largest academic library in the nation, with sub-libraries in biology, chemistry, and medicine in very close proximity.