REU Site: Chemistry Research Addressing Biological Problems

REU 网站：解决生物学问题的化学研究

• 批准号: 0649114
• 负责人: John Snyder
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0649114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Chemistry; Research; Addressing

The Division of Chemistry supports this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Boston University (BU) for the summers of 2007-2009. The program director John Snyder will be assisted by co-PI John Straub in the ten-week summer program. Students will be recruited from undergraduate institutions and community colleges with limited opportunities for undergraduate research and will work on projects that use the basic chemical sciences to address fundamental questions in biological systems. The research ranges across traditional chemical disciplines and includes computer simulations of amyloid peptide aggregation to probe Alzheimer's disease, development of photochemical techniques to detect human pathogenic organisms, and organic syntheses targeting the discovery of novel biological probes and new drug candidates. Training on state-of-the-art instrumentation will allow students to use these tools in their research as needed. Workshops and REU group meetings will illustrate the interrelatedness of the research efforts in solving biological problems. Presentation skills will be honed in meetings of individual research groups as well as within the entire BU undergraduate research community in a summer-ending, multidisciplinary research symposium.

化学系在 2007-2009 年夏季为波士顿大学 (BU) 的本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站提供支持。 在为期十周的夏季项目中，项目总监约翰·斯奈德 (John Snyder) 将得到联合 PI 约翰·斯特劳布 (John Straub) 的协助。 学生将从本科院校和社区学院招募，本科研究机会有限，并将从事利用基础化学科学解决生物系统基本问题的项目。 该研究涵盖传统化学学科，包括用于探测阿尔茨海默病的淀粉样肽聚集的计算机模拟、用于检测人类病原生物的光化学技术的开发，以及旨在发现新型生物探针和新候选药物的有机合成。最先进仪器的培训将使学生能够根据需要在研究中使用这些工具。 研讨会和 REU 小组会议将说明解决生物学问题的研究工作的相互关联性。 演讲技巧将在各个研究小组的会议以及整个波士顿大学本科研究社区的夏季结束的多学科研究研讨会上得到磨练。