NSERC CREATE Graduate program in Genome Science and Technology

技术创新和生物发现是密切相关的。在过去的十年里，生命科学发生了彻底的范式转变，这是由变革性的技术引起的，这些技术使我们能够在DNA、蛋白质和细胞水平上快速和定量地分析样本。开发和推动这些进步需要新一代生物学家、物理学家和工程师。生物学家必须越来越注重量化，并且必须非常熟悉新兴技术的能力和局限性。同样，工程师和技术专家必须对当前科学领域的机遇和瓶颈有第一手的了解。因此，生物学、物理科学和工程学的传统界限正在变得模糊，迫切需要在技术和生物学之间建立联系的培训计划。

Technological innovation and biological discovery are intimately related. The last ten years have seen a complete paradigm shift in the life sciences, occasioned by transformative technologies that allow us to rapidly and quantitatively analyze samples on the DNA, protein, and cellular levels. Exploiting and furthering these advances requires a new generation of biologists, physical scientists, and engineers. Biologists must increasingly be quantitative and must be intimately familiar with the capabilities and limitations of emerging technologies. Similarly, engineers and technologists must have first hand knowledge of the current opportunities and bottlenecks in science. The traditional boundaries of biology, physical science, and engineering are thus becoming blurred, and there is an urgent need for training programs that bridge the nexus of technology and biology.