Quantitative Biology

定量生物学

• 批准号: 9127229
• 负责人: JEFF GELLES
• 金额: $ 28.12万
• 依托单位: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9127229
• 关键词: Biology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The second half of the last century produced a staggering wealth of information about the cellular and molecular processes of life. The quantity and quality of this data is ushering in a new mode of thinking in the biomedical sciences that relies heavily on mathematical and computational tools and on rigorous quantitative experimental methods. With increasing frequency, these analytical tools and experimental methods are not home grown within the life sciences, but are adopted from research in the physical and mathematical sciences. This brave new world requires a new kind of researcher, one who easily moves between the bench and the workstation, one who is equally at ease with running microscopes as with running simulations, and one for whom building quantitative models and testing them by designing equally quantitative experiments comes naturally. The Quantitative Biology (QB) Program at Brandeis University brings together six different Ph.D. programs from five science departments in order to train students who can rise to this interdisciplinary challenge. QB is an official interdepartmental graduate program at Brandeis that has just completed its seventh full academic year of operation; the program currently has 50 enrolled students and is the largest graduate program in the sciences at Brandeis. QB leverages the strengths of existing disciplinary Ph.D. programs at Brandeis by bringing together students from these programs in a specialized curriculum that is designed to take advantage of the learning opportunities afforded by training in multi-disciplinary groups. Students admitted to graduate study in the Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience, or Physics Ph.D. programs who choose the QB track, receive upon successful completion a Ph.D. degree in their chosen discipline "with an additional specialization in Quantitative Biology". This approach provides the students with modern discipline-bridging training while providing the graduate with a Ph.D. credential that has proven value on the job market because it is in a recognized traditional discipline. Students typically enter the QB program in either the first or second years of their Ph.D. studies and remain affiliated with QB until they graduate. Each student selected for support by the training grant is supported either in years one and two, or two and three, so as to achieve the best fit between QB training and the course of study in the student's home Ph.D. program.

描述（由申请人提供）：上个世纪下半叶产生了有关细胞和分子生命过程的惊人信息。这些数据的数量和质量正在以严重依赖数学和计算工具以及严格的定量实验方法的生物医学科学的新思维方式引入。随着频率的越来越多，这些分析工具和实验方法不是生命科学中种植的家园，而是从物理和数学科学的研究中采用的。这个勇敢的新世界需要一种新型的研究人员，他们很容易在板凳和工作站之间移动，他们与运行模拟同样轻松地进行了跑步模拟，并且为他们建立定量模型并通过设计同样定量的实验来进行测试。 布兰代斯大学的定量生物学（QB）计划汇集了六个不同的博士学位。来自五个科学部门的计划是为了培训可以提出这一跨学科挑战的学生。 QB是Brandeis的官方跨部门研究生课程，刚刚完成了第七个整个学年的运作；该计划目前有50名入学学生，并且是布兰代斯（Brandeis）科学的最大研究生课程。 QB利用现有纪律博士学位的优势。布兰代斯（Brandeis）的课程通过将这些课程的学生聚集在专业的课程中，旨在利用多学科小组的培训提供的学习机会。学生接受了生物化学和生物物理学，化学，计算机科学，分子和细胞生物学，神经科学或物理学博士学位的研究生研究。选择QB轨道的计划，成功完成博士学位。他们所选学科的学位“具有定量生物学方面的额外专业化”。这种方法为学生提供了现代学科的桥梁培训，同时为毕业生提供博士学位。在就业市场上具有证明价值的证书，因为它处于公认的传统学科。学生通常在博士学位的第一年或第二年中输入QB计划。研究并一直隶属于QB，直到他们毕业。在第一年和二和三年级和三年级中，每个学生都得到培训赠款的支持，以实现QB培训与学生主学博士学位的学习过程之间的最佳拟合度。程序。