REU Site: Next generation Evolutionary Biology

REU 网站：下一代进化生物学

• 批准号: 1560116
• 负责人: Marymegan Daly
• 金额: $ 27.91万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Next; generation; Evolutionary

This REU Site award to Ohio State University, located in Columbus, OH, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2019. This program will recruit rising sophomores and juniors to collaborate with research mentors from the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology to address questions about evolutionary relationships among plants, microbes, or animals using leading-edge molecular biology and informatics techniques for massively parallel DNA sequence data. In addition to developing skills in research project design, data collection, and analysis, this program will focus on professional development of the students, including meetings with biologists in industry, natural resource management, and the Columbus Zoo. Students will be recruited through websites, recruitment visits to undergraduate student groups, and social media. Matching between students and potential mentors will be done by a selection committee including the PIs and a subset of potential mentors who will consider the student's research interests and professional goals. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students from diverse backgrounds will be recruited from institutions within OSU's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and from OSU regional campuses in rural Ohio. Because the target population is rising sophomores and juniors, the REU program includes extensive career exploration and professional development, with the expectation that these will increase significantly the impact for students as they navigate subsequent academic and professional opportunities. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marymegan Daly at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Bryan Carstens at [e-mail]).

REU 授予位于俄亥俄州哥伦布市的俄亥俄州立大学的场地奖将支持 10 名学生在 2017 年至 2019 年夏季进行为期 10 周的培训。该计划将招募即将升入大学的二年级和三年级学生，与来自俄亥俄州哥伦布分校的研究导师合作。进化、生态学和有机生物学，利用前沿分子生物学和信息学技术进行大规模并行 DNA 序列，解决有关植物、微生物或动物之间进化关系的问题 数据。除了培养研究项目设计、数据收集和分析方面的技能外，该项目还将注重学生的专业发展，包括与工业界、自然资源管理和哥伦布动物园的生物学家会面。学生将通过网站、本科生团体招生参观和社交媒体进行招募。学生和潜在导师之间的匹配将由一个遴选委员会完成，该委员会包括 PI 和一部分潜在导师，他们将考虑学生的研究兴趣和职业目标。 预计共有 30 名学生（主要来自研究机会有限的学校）将接受该计划的培训。来自不同背景的学生将从俄亥俄州立大学路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟内的机构和俄亥俄州农村的俄亥俄州立大学地区校园招募。由于目标人群是大二和大三的学生，REU 项目包括广泛的职业探索和专业发展，期望这些将显着增加学生在获得后续学术和职业机会时的影响。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施司（生物科学理事会）资助的所有 REU 项目使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。项目结束后将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过 NSF 报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问 http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU，或联系 PI（Marymegan Daly 博士，[e-mail]）或联合 PI（Bryan Carstens 博士）邮箱：[e-mail]）。