REU Site: Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technology and Engineering (CREATE)

REU 网站：农业技术与工程合作研究与教育 (CREATE)

• 批准号: 0852090
• 负责人: Jean VanderGheynst
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Collaborative; Research; Education

EEC-0852090P.I. Jean VanderGheynstThe REU Site award, entitled "Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technology and Engineering (CREATE)" will provide undergraduate students with integrated research and educational training in plant sciences, molecular biology and engineering. In this REU program the participants will be involved in cutting edge research areas that address the following major problems facing our nation and the world: 1) Lack of rapid production technologies for vaccine manufacturing; 2) Rising health care costs; 3) Dependence on fossil fuels for energy and chemical feedstocks; and 4) Contaminated soil and groundwater. In order to address these major societal problems, the CREATE program will focus on the development and use of transgenic plants and/or in vitro plant based systems for the production of industrial non-food products, biopharmaceuticals and for bioremediation. This REU program is well structured with a high level of interaction between peers and mentors. The undergraduate students will be part of highly diverse interdisciplinary research teams, made up of faculty and graduate student research mentors, from a variety of disciplines, including Biological Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics. In addition to the research activities, REU students will be required take at least one short course offered in plant biotechnology or plant bioprocessing to learn critical experimental methods used in plant biotechnology and to strengthen their research skills. They will also participate in alternating weekly research seminars on the topical themes and on ethics, individual and team presentation challenges, speech and poster development training, seminars and practice modules in pre-graduate preparation and submitting graduate applications, and a faculty-protégé retreat. The program will culminate with a CREATE REU Research Symposium to enable participants to showcase their individual research findings and accomplishments and prepare them for scientific and professional society conference attendance and presentations.The Principal Investigator is committed to recruiting undergraduate participants from underrepresented groups. This REU program will prepare undergraduate students for graduate-level research related to agricultural biotechnology and prepare them to be the research and educational leaders of the future who will help solve society's most pressing problems related to affordable vaccines and therapeutics, energy sustainability and environmental stewardship.Co-funding for this project is provided by the NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI).

EEC-0852090P.I。 Jean Vandergheynst The REU网站奖，名为“农业技术与工程学的合作研究与教育（CREATE）”将为本科生提供植物科学，分子生物学和工程学的综合研究和教育培训。在此REU计划中，参与者将参与尖端研究领域，这些研究领域解决了我们国家和世界面临的以下主要问题：1）缺乏用于疫苗制造的快速生产技术； 2）医疗保健费用上涨； 3）依赖化石燃料的能量和化学原料； 4）被污染的土壤和地下水。为了解决这些主要的社会问题，创建计划将重点关注转基因植物和/或基于体外植物的系统，用于生产工业非食品产品，生物制药和生物修复。该REU计划结构良好，同龄人与导师之间的相互作用很高。本科生将成为由高度多样化的跨学科研究团队的一部分，这些研究团队由来自各种学科的教师和研究生研究导师组成，包括生物系统工程，化学工程，植物生物学，植物生物学，植物病理学，生物化学和分子生物学以及遗传学。除了研究活动外，REU学生还将参加有关局部主题以及道德，个人和团队演示挑战，言语和海报发展培训，言语和秘密发展培训的替代性研究，半学位和实践模块，并提交研究生应用，并提交研究生应用，以及教职员工培训。该计划将以创建REU研究研讨会为顶点，以使参与者能够展示他们的个人研究结果和成就，并为科学和专业社会的出席和演讲做好准备。该REU计划将为本科生准备与农业生物技术有关的研究生水平的研究，并准备成为未来的研究和教育领导者，他们将帮助解决社会最紧迫的问题，与负担得起的疫苗，能源可持续性和环境发展有关。