The Hopkins Microbiology Course

霍普金斯大学微生物学课程

基本信息

批准号：
1157960
负责人：
Alfred Spormann
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Stanford University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-05-01 至 2019-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157960&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Hopkins Microbiology Course

项目摘要

Intellectual Merit. The Hopkins Microbiology Course (http://hmc.stanford.edu) is an intensive, 4-week course, targeting microbiology students, who seek to obtain an integrated view of microbial life. The course also attracts non-microbiologists, such as physicists or engineers who want to understand microbial biology in order to begin molecular and population level studies. As a "big picture" course, the Hopkins Microbiology Course requires students to have already acquired a significant background in microbiology. While details are important and stressed abundantly as required, the emphasis is on providing the intellectual framework to weave together multiple disciplines into an integrated perspective. This integration is further intensified by providing students with an introduction and hands-on use of biocomputational tools and methods to exploit large biological data sets in order to obtain new biological understandings. Such a broad view is important for students entering not only the academic environment, but also professional fields that involve microbes (chemical, pharmaceutical, or environmental and water industry). Broader Impacts. This advanced level summer course seeks to provide students with an integrated conceptual framework and experimental tools necessary to understand and study how the interplay of physiology, ecology, evolution, and population genetics causes and maintains diversity of microbes in diverse environments. The course emphasizes a critical, cross-disciplinary integration and application of the knowledge gained and experimental skills learned.

智力优点。霍普金斯微生物学课程（http://hmc.stanford.edu）是一门密集的4周课程，针对微生物学专业的学生，他们试图获得对微生物生活的综合观点。该课程还吸引了非微生物学家，例如想要了解微生物生物学以开始分子和人群水平研究的物理学家或工程师。作为“大局”课程，霍普金斯微生物学课程要求学生已经获得了微生物学的重要背景。尽管细节很重要，并且根据需要大量压力，但重点是提供智力框架，将多个学科编织成一个综合的观点。通过向学生提供对生物计算工具和方法的介绍和动手使用，以利用大型生物学数据集以获得新的生物学理解，从而进一步加强了这种整合。如此广泛的看法对于进入学术环境的学生来说很重要，而且对涉及微生物（化学，药物或环境和水行业）的专业领域也很重要。更广泛的影响。该高级夏季课程旨在为学生提供一个综合的概念框架和实验工具，以了解和研究生理，生态，进化和人口遗传学的相互作用如何导致并保持不同环境中微生物的多样性。该课程强调了所获得的知识和实验技能的关键，跨学科的整合和应用。