REU Site: Molecular and Synthetic Microbiology

REU 网站：分子和合成微生物学

• 批准号: 1757720
• 负责人: Vincent Starai
• 金额: $ 34.03万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-15 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757720&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Molecular; Synthetic; Microbiology

This REU Site award to the University of Georgia, located in Athens, Georgia, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2018-2020. This program will introduce undergraduates to areas of microbial research and increase their awareness of careers in microbiology and graduate school application process through multiple workshops. Students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific community, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students and ethnic minorities, are encouraged to participate. Each REU participant conducts an independent project with a faculty mentor residing in one of several Departments (e.g., Microbiology, Marine Sciences). All provide research topics that address the functions of microscopic organisms and use interdisciplinary techniques that combine knowledge from diverse fields, including Genetics, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics. Projects may address broad questions including the role of microbes in environmental or geochemical processes, or in engineering microbes to synthesize industrially-relevant compounds. These processes may be dissected at the molecular or genome sequence levels. Student applications are submitted electronically, and students will be selected by a committee of research faculty. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Additional support will be provided to deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) participants. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Participants will meet with faculty, attend scientific seminars, tour local biotech industries, participate in discussions of science ethics, and join regular laboratory group meetings. Students will present their research results at the end of the summer in a poster session. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://mib.uga.edu/reu-site-molecular-and-synthetic-microbiology, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Vincent J. Starai at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Timothy Hoover at [e-mail]).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项授予位于佐治亚州雅典的佐治亚大学的REU网站奖将在2018 - 2020年夏季支持10个学生的培训9周。 该计划将在微生物研究领域介绍本科生，并通过多个研讨会提高其在微生物学和研究生院申请过程中的职业意识。鼓励来自科学界人数不足的团体的学生，包括聋哑学生和辛苦的学生和少数民族，参加。每个REU参与者都会由居住在几个部门之一（例如微生物学，海洋科学）的教师导师进行独立项目。所有人都提供了解决微观生物功能的研究主题，并使用跨学科技术结合了来自不同领域的知识，包括遗传学，生物化学和生物信息学。项目可能会解决广泛的问题，包括微生物在环境或地球化学过程中的作用，或在工程微生物中综合与工业相关的化合物中的作用。这些过程可以在分子或基因组序列水平上进行剖析。学生申请是通过电子方式提交的，学生将由研究委员会选择。预计总共有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该计划中接受培训。 将为聋哑人或听力强（D/HH）参与者提供额外的支持。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人会在科学会议上介绍他们的工作结果。 参与者将与教职员工会面，参加科学研讨会，旅行当地生物技术行业，参加科学伦理讨论，并参加常规实验室小组会议。学生将在夏季结束时在海报会议上展示他们的研究结果。由生物基础设施部资助的所有REU网站计划使用的常见基于Web的评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。计划后将跟踪学生以确定自己的职业道路。将要求学生回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。访问http://mib.uga.edu/reu-site-molecular-and-synthetic-microbiology，或通过与PI（VICCENT J. Starai博士联系，vjs​​[e-mail]）或Co-pi（Trohoover@uga thrhoover@ugauga and deem the ssfy the ssfy the ssfy the ssfy the ssfy the ssfy）通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评论标准来通过评估来支持。