IGERT Full Proposal: Integrated Bioinformatics Training at UCLA

IGERT 完整提案：加州大学洛杉矶分校综合生物信息学培训

• 批准号: 9987641
• 负责人: C. Fred Fox
• 金额: $ 269.33万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9987641&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Full; Proposal; Integrated; Bioinformatics

9987641Fred Fox - University of California at Los AngelesIGERT: Training Program in BioinformaticsThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in bioinformatics. As part of a major new bioinformatics initiative at UCLA, the IGERT bioinformatics program will provide rigorous training for Ph.D. candidates in thirteen participating departments, supporting them with tools for creating robust new bioinformatics applications. It also will engage undergraduates from UCLA and feeder institutions in summer research internships and support accelerated bioinformatics training that can bypass the baccalaureate and proceed directly from undergraduate admittance to an advanced degree. IGERT trainees will satisfy all major subject area requirements of their Ph.D.-granting departments and also the core components of the newly established, certificate-granting interdepartmental program in bioinformatics. This core consists of courses in genomics and bioinformatics, statistical methods in computational biology, and a weekly seminar in which students and faculty discuss specific examples of how biological problems map to are solved by approaches from multiple disciplines. The interdepartmental program also requires a subject area minor in molecular life science for trainees in computer science, mathematics and statistics; trainees in life sciences must satisfy a minor in mathematics-statistics or computer science. IGERT trainees will work in matrix environments that force regular, collaborative contacts; these are provided by the Keck Foundation-supported Bioinformatics User Centers adjacent to the UCLA-DOE Macromolecular Structure Laboratories and the Human Genetics core DNA sequencing and microarray facilities. The User Centers can be made available to visitors who wish to apply powerful, integrated bioinformatics approaches in their research. The UCLA-IGERT bioinformatics program will develop a proactive industry liaison that contributes to programmatic vision, helps test the preparedness of trainees in private sector challenges and provides networking support. The IGERT program will also collaborate with the UCLA-based, NSF-sponsored national Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in seminars and conferences that help define the evolution of bioinformatics as a fundamental discipline. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Biological Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Education and Human Resources.

9987641Fred Fox - 加州大学洛杉矶分校IGERT：生物信息学培训计划该综合研究生教育和研究培训 (IGERT) 奖项支持建立生物信息学教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。 作为加州大学洛杉矶分校一项重要的新生物信息学计划的一部分，IGERT 生物信息学项目将为博士生提供严格的培训。十三个参与部门的候选人，为他们提供创建强大的新生物信息学应用程序的工具支持。 它还将吸引加州大学洛杉矶分校和附属机构的本科生参加暑期研究实习，并支持加速生物信息学培训，这些培训可以绕过学士学位，直接从本科生入学进入高级学位。 IGERT 学员将满足其博士学位授予部门的所有主要学科领域要求，以及新建立的生物信息学证书授予部门间计划的核心组成部分。 该核心课程包括基因组学和生物信息学课程、计算生物学统计方法以及每周一次的研讨会，学生和教师在研讨会上讨论生物问题如何通过多学科方法解决的具体例子。 跨院系项目还要求计算机科学、数学和统计学的学员辅修分子生命科学学科领域；生命科学专业的学员必须辅修数学统计学或计算机科学。 IGERT 学员将在矩阵环境中工作，强制定期进行协作接触；这些由凯克基金会支持的生物信息学用户中心提供，该中心毗邻加州大学洛杉矶分校-能源部大分子结构实验室和人类遗传学核心 DNA 测序和微阵列设施。用户中心可供希望在研究中应用强大的综合生物信息学方法的访客使用。 UCLA-IGERT 生物信息学项目将建立积极主动的行业联络，有助于实现项目愿景，帮助测试学员应对私营部门挑战的准备情况，并提供网络支持。 IGERT 项目还将与加州大学洛杉矶分校、美国国家科学基金会资助的国家纯粹与应用数学研究所合作举办研讨会和会议，帮助确定生物信息学作为一门基础学科的发展。 IGERT 是 NSF 范围内的一项计划，旨在应对博士生教育的挑战。具有多学科背景以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的科学家和工程师。 该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，来促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，十九个机构因涵盖 NSF 支持的科学和工程所有领域的项目而获奖。该奖项的智力重点在于生物科学、计算机和信息科学与工程、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源理事会。