EMSW21-RTG: Enhanced Training and Recruitment in Mathematical Biology

EMSW21-RTG：数学生物学加强培训和招聘

• 批准号: 0943760
• 负责人: Michael Reed
• 金额: $ 210.47万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943760&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EMSW21; RTG; Enhanced; Training; Recruitment

This Research and Training Grant will use the mathematical biology program of the Mathematics Department at Duke University to enhance the recruitment of American nationals into the mathematical sciences. The goals are to attract more excellent undergraduates into mathematical biology, to provide excellent and expanded training of mathematical biologists at the graduate level, and to increase the diversity of research experiences of young post-Ph.D. mathematical biologists. The undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be integrated into one or more of the six vertically integrated interdisciplinary research groups in the Mathematics Department: (1) Kidney physiology (Harold and Anita Layton); (2) Electrophysiology of the heart (David Schaeffer); (3) Systems biology and genomics (John Harer); (4) Image segmentation and dorsal closure (Stephanos Venakides); (5) Mathematical models of cell metabolism (Michael Reed); (6) Data driven inference and biological structure (Jonathan Mattingly). The faculty members in the six research groups have very good track records in successful mentoring of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research projects, as well as recruiting and training women and other under-represented groups. The success of these mentoring and recruitment activities is an important priority for these faculty members and is the central goal of this Research Training Grant. To achieve the goals of the program, the undergraduates will conduct research in the summers mentored by program faculty, more graduate students will be recruited and trained in new graduate courses, and postdoctoral fellows will conduct research with program faculty. In addition, each year there will be a summer workshop that targets students at small colleges in the Southeast who may have little knowledge about graduate degrees and few opportunities to study mathematical biology. A particular goal of the program is to recruit women and other under-represented groups into the mathematical sciences. Because of the many faculty members conducting research in mathematical biology, and the proximity of the Duke Medical Center and the Duke School of the Environment, the Mathematics Department at Duke is an excellent location to study mathematical biology and to achieve the goal of attracting American nationals into the mathematical sciences.

这项研究和培训赠款将使用杜克大学数学系的数学生物学计划来增强美国国民招募到数学科学。目标是吸引更多优秀的大学生进入数学生物学，以在研究生层面提供对数学生物学家的出色培训，并增加ph.D的年轻研究经历的多样性。数学生物学家。本科生，研究生和博士后研究员将纳入数学系垂直整合的跨学科研究小组中的一个或多个：（1）肾脏生理学（Harold和Anita Layton）； （2）心脏的电生理学（David Schaeffer）； （3）系统生物学和基因组学（John Harer）； （4）图像分割和背闭合（Stephanos Venakides）； （5）细胞代谢的数学模型（迈克尔·里德）； （6）数据驱动的推理和生物结构（Jonathan Mattingly）。六个研究小组的教职员工在成功指导本科，研究生和博士后研究项目的过程中具有很好的记录，以及招募和培训妇女以及其他代表不足的小组。这些指导和招聘活动的成功是这些教职员工的重要优先事项，并且是这项研究培训补助金的核心目标。 为了实现该计划的目标，本科生将在课程教职员工指导的夏季进行研究，将在新的研究生课程中招募和培训更多的研究生，而博士后研究员将与计划教师进行研究。此外，每年都会举办一个夏季研讨会，针对东南小学的学生，他们可能对研究生学位和学习数学生物学的机会知之甚少。该计划的一个特殊目标是将妇女和其他代表性不足的群体招募到数学科学。由于许多在进行数学生物学研究的教职员工，以及杜克医学中心和环境学院的邻近，杜克大学的数学系是研究数学生物学的绝佳地点，并实现了吸引美国国民的目标进入数学科学。