REU Site: Human Neuroscience Research and Techniques at Georgia Tech and Georgia State

REU 网站：佐治亚理工学院和佐治亚州立大学的人类神经科学研究和技术

• 批准号: 2050613
• 负责人: Eric Schumacher
• 金额: $ 37.47万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Human; Neuroscience; Research

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The brain is critical for basic functions in life, such as movement, emotion, awareness, and regulation. Understanding how the brain functions is vital to questions scientists have about behavior and health. Research of the human brain is possible with sophisticated tools that are used to understand the function and health of our brains. Over the last several decades, great steps have been made to develop the tools to improve our ability to more accurately understand human brain function. It is critical to develop the next generation of brain scientists to use these tools to unlock new discoveries. However, some college-age aspiring brain scientists are unable to use these tools because they are not available to them. This Research Experience for Undergraduates seeks to provide hands-on exposure to the tools to understand human brain function. We will train women and/or under-represented minority college students in research laboratories at two universities that are leaders in brain research, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University in the city of Atlanta, GA. This experience will support engagement with techniques to study human brain function, enhance their knowledge of brain science, and support the next generation of scientists that can unlock the mysteries of the brain.Neuroscience is a growing field. Knowledge about the brain and brain function is critical for our understanding of human behavior and many human diseases and disorders. The collaborative neuroscience community at Georgia Tech and Georgia State is uniquely suited to provide an undergraduate research experience in human neuroscience research and techniques that will achieve several goals. This REU program will train women and/or under-represented minority students, including 6 in a unique second summer research-mentorship experience that will: 1) provide exposure for students to human neuroscience research that do not have tools available at their institutions; 2) afford hands-on training on data acquisition and analysis in fMRI and EEG; 3) provide training on the importance of reliability and reproducibility in research; 4) engage in active research in PI labs; 5) increase the students' competitiveness when applying for post-graduate education or work in neuroscience-related fields, and 6)increase scientific knowledge and make neuroscientific discoveries by advancing the transformative research in faculty mentor laboratories. To achieve our goals of increasing neuroscience knowledge among trainees, we will engage them in transformative neuroscience research tailored to their interests through collaborative research with faculty mentors. The participants will advance neuroscientific knowledge by carrying out this transformative research with Georgia State or Georgia Tech faculty. Through group activities, the REU participants will gain a hands-on knowledge of neuroscience techniques that they would not otherwise have access to. The shared activities of the REU participants and faculty mentors will foster interaction across psychology, physics, neuroscience, biology, and biomedical engineering.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。大脑对于生活中的基本功能，例如运动，情感，意识和调节至关重要。了解大脑的功能对于科学家对行为和健康的问题至关重要。通过用于了解大脑功能和健康的复杂工具，可以对人脑进行研究。在过去的几十年中，已经采取了重大步骤来开发工具，以提高我们更准确地了解人脑功能的能力。开发下一代大脑科学家的情况至关重要，以便使用这些工具解锁新发现。但是，一些有抱负的大脑科学家无法使用这些工具，因为它们无法使用。本科生的这种研究经验试图提供对了解人脑功能的工具的动手接触。我们将在两所大学的研究实验室中培训妇女和/或代表性不足的少数学院学生，这些大学是佐治亚州亚特兰大市的脑研究，佐治亚理工学院和佐治亚州立大学的领导者。这种经验将支持参与研究人脑功能，增强他们对脑科学知识的技术，并支持可以释放脑奥秘的下一代科学家。神经科学是一个越来越多的领域。关于大脑和大脑功能的知识对于我们对人类行为以及许多人类疾病和疾病的理解至关重要。佐治亚理工学院和佐治亚州立大学的合作神经科学社区非常适合提供人类神经科学研究和技术的本科研究经验，这些研究将实现多个目标。该REU计划将培训妇女和/或代表性不足的少数族裔学生，其中包括独特的第二届夏季研究经验，这些经验将：1）为学生提供对人类神经科学研究的曝光率，这些研究在其机构中没有可用的工具； 2）在fMRI和EEG中提供有关数据获取和分析的动手培训； 3）提供有关可靠性和可重复性在研究中的重要性的培训； 4）从事PI实验室的积极研究； 5）在申请研究生教育或与神经科学相关的领域的工作时，提高学生的竞争力，以及6）通过推进教师导师实验室的变革性研究来提高科学知识并进行神经科学发现。为了实现我们增加受训者神经科学知识的目标，我们将通过与教师导师的合作研究来参与针对他们的利益量身定制的变革性神经科学研究。参与者将通过与佐治亚州或佐治亚理工学院的教师进行这项变革性研究来提高神经科学知识。通过小组活动，REU参与者将获得对他们原本无法访问的神经科学技术的动手知识。 REU参与者和教师的共同活动将促进跨心理学，物理学，神经科学，生物学和生物医学工程的互动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。