About
High-throughput technologies have transformed biological research into a data-intensive science and provided exciting opportunities to investigate living processes in unprecedented detail. Yet making sense of these data has proven challenging due to the sheer volume and variety of the measurements, as well as the underlying complexity of biological systems. Developing models that are mechanistically insightful—not just accurate—requires a new generation of researchers working at the interface between mathematical disciplines (including mathematics, physics, and computer science) and the life sciences. The QBREU, the Quantitative Biology REU site at Northwestern University trains the next generation of researchers to develop and apply mathematical and computational models to address basic and applied biological problems ranging from molecular to population biology. QBREU leverages Northwestern’s considerable strengths in interdisciplinary research (including the community created by the Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University (CQuB), one of four NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems, to provide students a rich and authentic research experience. It builds upon our previous successes offering summer undergraduate research projects within CQuB, and will extend its reach to a larger and more diverse audience.
Funded by National Science Foundation DMS-2150134