Graduate Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology at Indiana University Bloom

描述(由申请人提供)：在这份提案中，一个由33名导师组成的高度协作的小组来自印第安纳大学、布鲁明顿(IUB)包括化学、生物学、分子和细胞生物化学、物理学以及印第安纳大学医学院医学科学计划在内的五个不同的系和项目，他们已经聚集在一起，发起了一个新的博士前化学-生物学接口(CBI)计划，称为定量和化学生物学培训计划(QCB TP)。QCB TP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，创建新的教学课程和研究机会，专注于超越传统部门界限的生物医学科学跨学科量化培训。该计划由一名计划主任和一名副主任领导，两人在物理和化学生物学方面具有互补的专业知识，并由一个指导委员会监督，该委员会包括来自四个参与的系研究生计划的培训人员。招生委员会将负责识别和确定该计划支持的学生。课程委员会将指导QCB TP学生创建基于主题的电子单元，并监督两门1.5学分核心课程的发展，即定量生物学与测量(C680)和化学生物学导论(C681)，以及QCB期刊俱乐部(C689)。课外计划活动包括QCB研讨会系列和一年一度的渡边化学生物技术研讨会，每一次都会吸引来自学术界和工业界的国际知名化学家来到布鲁明顿，与QCB TP实习生进行讲座和访问。该计划还将赞助QCB夜晚，这是每月由学生组织的研究研讨会系列。拟议的QCB TP得到了IUB艺术与科学学院的大力行政支持，该学院在最初的五年资助期的前三年提供了六个培训和补助金名额。在过去三年QCB TP发展阶段已经承诺的14个名额之外，还提供了这一支持；这笔资金用于支持8名学员在他们毕业生涯的2-3年中提供1-2年的时间。该计划的一个主要目标是招收和留住IUB生命科学领域中代表性不足的群体的学生；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，该委员会负责利用整个校园在这一领域的重大努力。对负责任的研究行为教学的建议也被概述。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.