Biophysics Training Program

生物物理学培训计划

• 批准号: 10494714
• 负责人: James H Hurley
• 金额: $ 61.04万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10494714
• 关键词: Biophysics; Training Programs

Project Summary / Abstract The Biophysics Training Program (BTP) is a new interdisciplinary predoctoral training program at the University of California at Berkeley. The BTP will be the only training program at UC Berkeley focusing on biophysics. The BTP will recruit and appoint six trainees per year to train in the field of biophysics, drawn from a pool of 640 applicants and 40 matriculants per year in the Biophysics and Molecular and Cell Biology PhD programs. Trainees will be appointed for two-year terms and will continue to engage with the BTP training activities and community-building events through to graduation. We aim to have at least 20% of our trainees coming from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. We expect that 100% of our students will graduate with a PhD within 6 years, with a target mean time to degree of 5.5 years for all students, and with no differential between students from URM and non-URM backgrounds. Our goal is that every student will publish a first or co- first author paper in a peer-reviewed journal recognized as excellent in the field of biophysics, and will subsequently pursue a research-related career in academia, industry, or government. Professional development will be centered on the acquisition of ten core competences designed to enable leadership in any of these workforce sectors. Training procedures will be informed by the latest scientific literature in the field of research mentorship and training, and will emphasize the acquisition of self-efficacy and sense of belonging. Research training will be enhanced in response to the latest advances in biophysics, including the rapidly growing importance of machine learning in structural biology and data analysis. A series of training innovations have been incorporated into the BTP, including a new hands-on computational modeling course in the physics of the cell, short boot camp courses in cryo-EM and single molecule microscopy, and advanced training in laboratory safety and record keeping. The effectiveness of the training program will be rigorously evaluated on an annual basis and advice sought from newly-constituted student and external advisory groups. All 23 of the BTP training faculty are members of the Graduate Group in Biophysics (GGB), and our trainees will be drawn from the GGB and the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program. Our faculty are world leaders in their fields and include six members of the National Academy of Sciences, six Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and a recent recipient of both the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and Nobel Prize in Chemistry. All BTP faculty undergo formal mentorship training and evaluation of mentoring quality.

项目概要/摘要 生物物理学培训项目（BTP）是一个新的跨学科博士前培训项目 加州大学伯克利分校。 BTP 将是加州大学伯克利分校唯一专注于 生物物理学。 BTP 每年将招募和任命六名学员进行生物物理学领域的培训，这些学员来自 生物物理学、分子和细胞生物学博士项目每年有 640 名申请者和 40 名预科生 程序。受训人员的任期为两年，并将继续参加 BTP 培训 活动和社区建设活动直至毕业。我们的目标是至少有 20% 的学员 来自代表性不足的少数群体 (URM)。我们期望 100% 的学生毕业时 6 年内获得博士学位，所有学生获得学位的目标平均时间为 5.5 年，并且没有差别 来自 URM 和非 URM 背景的学生之间。我们的目标是每个学生都会发表第一篇或共同发表的文章 同行评审期刊上的第一作者论文被认为是生物物理学领域的优秀论文，并将 随后在学术界、工业界或政府从事与研究相关的职业。专业发展 将集中于获得十项核心能力，旨在实现这些领域的领导地位 劳动力部门。培训程序将参考研究领域的最新科学文献 指导和培训，并将强调自我效能感和归属感的获得。研究 将加强培训，以应对生物物理学的最新进展，包括快速发展的生物物理学 机器学习在结构生物学和数据分析中的重要性。一系列培训创新 被纳入 BTP，包括物理学中的新的实践计算建模课程 细胞、冷冻电镜和单分子显微镜短期训练营课程以及实验室高级培训 安全和记录保存。培训计划的有效性将在年度进行严格评估 向新成立的学生和外部咨询小组寻求依据和建议。 BTP 培训的全部 23 项 教师都是生物物理学研究生组（GGB）的成员，我们的学员将从 GGB 中选拔 以及分子和细胞生物学博士课程。我们的教师是各自领域的世界领先者，其中包括六名 美国国家科学院院士、六名霍华德休斯医学研究所研究员以及最近的一名 生命科学突破奖和诺贝尔化学奖双料获得者。所有 BTP 教员均接受 正式的辅导培训和辅导质量评估。