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）：上世纪下半叶产生了关于生命细胞和分子过程的惊人丰富的信息。这些数据的数量和质量正在为生物医学科学带来一种新的思维模式，这种思维模式在很大程度上依赖于数学和计算工具以及严格的定量实验方法。随着频率的增加，这些分析工具和实验方法不再是生命科学中本土产生的，而是从物理和数学科学研究中采用的。这个美丽的新世界需要一种新型的研究人员，能够轻松地在工作台和工作站之间移动的人，能够像运行模拟一样轻松地运行显微镜的人，能够构建定量模型并通过同样定量的设计来测试它们的人。实验是自然而然的。 布兰代斯大学的定量生物学 (QB) 项目汇集了六位不同的博士生。来自五个科学系的项目，旨在培训能够应对这一跨学科挑战的学生。 QB 是布兰迪斯大学的一个官方跨部门研究生项目，刚刚完成其第七个完整学年的运营；该项目目前有 50 名注册学生，是布兰代斯大学最大的科学研究生项目。 QB 利用现有学科博士学位的优势。布兰代斯大学的课程，将这些课程的学生聚集在专门的课程中，该课程旨在利用多学科小组培训提供的学习机会。学生被录取攻读生物化学与生物物理学、化学、计算机科学、分子与细胞生物学、神经科学或物理学博士学位研究生课程。选择 QB 课程的课程，成功完成后将获得博士学位。他们所选择的学科的学位“以及定量生物学的额外专业”。这种方法为学生提供了现代学科衔接培训，同时为毕业生提供了博士学位。已在就业市场证明其价值的证书，因为它属于公认的传统学科。学生通常在博士学位的第一年或第二年进入 QB 课程。学习并继续隶属于 QB 直至毕业。每个被培训补助金选中支持的学生都会在第一年和第二年，或者第二年和第三年得到支持，以实现 QB 培训和学生在家攻读博士学位的课程之间的最佳契合。程序。