BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR NON-BIOLOGY MAJORS

非生物专业的生物医学研究经验

• 批准号: 6233056
• 负责人: BRUCE J NICHOLSON
• 金额: $ 6.66万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6233056
• 关键词: Internet; biochemistry; biophysics; health science research support; interdisciplinary collaboration; neurobiology; role model; science education; structural biology; tissue engineering; university student

This application is in response to an RFA for providing Summer Research Experiences in Biomedical Science for undergraduates who come from distinct, non-biological backgrounds. With the increasing need for interdisciplinary approaches to solving biological problems, it is imperative that we modify the way in which the researchers of tomorrow are trained. Particularly, it would be a great asset to attract students with greater quantitative skills. While graduate programs in interdisciplinary areas, such as that run at SUNY at Buffalo by CAMBI, are often available, for many students this occurs too late at a time in which their career track has been set. The current program seeks to intervene during the undergraduate years to expose students, who are currently in more physical science tracks, to the wealth of opportunities provided in the biomedical sciences. An integrated 10 week summer program is proposed that would provide 10 students each year with a research experience in one of several areas, combined with a series of short courses in current topics in the biomedical sciences, a seminar series geared towards career opportunities, and field trips to local research facilities. Research areas represented among the mentors of the program include: tissue bioengineering; mechanisms of pathogenic; molecular analysis of neurological disorders and development; cell biology of inter- and intra- cellular signaling mechanisms; biophysics of ion channels, and; structural analysis of macromolecules. Students in the program would be given an initial orientation to lab techniques, and to the research opportunities available within the program in their first week. At the close of the program, the students will present their work at a meeting of all of the CAMBI labs as part of a research retreat scheduled prior to the beginning of Fall classes. Extensive efforts through a dedicated web page will be used to publicize the results of the student research, and as a means of tracking students who leave the program to assess its effectiveness.

该应用是对RFA的响应，用于为来自独特的非生物背景的本科生提供生物医学科学的夏季研究经验。随着对解决生物学问题的跨学科方法的需求越来越多，我们必须修改明天的研究人员的培训方式。特别是，吸引具有更高定量技能的学生将是一项很好的资产。虽然跨学科领域的研究生课程，例如Cambi在Buffalo的SUNY经营的课程，对于许多学生来说，这是为时已晚的，在设定了他们的职业生涯中。当前的计划试图在本科生中进行干预，以使目前正在更多物理科学轨道的学生接触生物医学科学中提供的丰富机会。提出了一项综合的10周夏季计划，每年将为10名学生提供几个领域的研究经验，并在生物医学科学中的当前主题中提供一系列简短的课程，这是一个针对职业机会的研讨会系列，以及前往当地研究设施的实地考察。该计划的导师中代表的研究领域包括：组织生物工程；致病性机制；神经系统疾病和发育的分子分析；细胞间和细胞内信号传导机制的细胞生物学；离子通道的生物物理学；大分子的结构分析。该计划中的学生将以实验室技术的初始定向，并在第一周内提供该计划中的研究机会。在计划结束时，学生将在秋季课程开始之前安排的研究务虚会的一部分中，在所有Cambi Labs的会议上介绍他们的作品。通过专门的网页进行的广泛努力将用于宣传学生研究的结果，以及跟踪离开该计划以评估其有效性的学生的一种手段。