Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM)

基因组医学暑期本科生研究经历（SURE-GM）

基本信息

批准号：
10842063
负责人：
Gregory Stefan Barsh
金额：
$ 15.5万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-24 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10842063
关键词：
Alabama Awareness Biomedical Research Biotechnology Collaborations Counseling Development Environment Evaluation Event Exposure to Faculty Feedback Fostering Funding Genetic Genomic medicine Genomics Historically Black Colleges and Universities Infrastructure Laboratories Laboratory Research Mentors Mentorship Performance Persons Physicians Postbaccalaureate Process Research Research Personnel Resources Role Schools Scientist Senior Scientist Student recruitment Students Time Training Underrepresented Students Universities Visit Vocational Guidance Work career design experience flexibility genome sciences health equity laboratory experience matriculation member posters programs recruit response science and society senior faculty skills success summer research summer student undergraduate research experience undergraduate student

项目摘要

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM) is intended to provide exposure to research in genomic medicine to rising juniors from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Alabama. The program is a collaboration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL. Students are recruited through mailings and, where possible, in-person visits by study staff to HBCUs in the state. The program is designed as a two-summer experience. The first summer is spent at HudsonAlpha with a combination of didactic and hands-on laboratory experiences intended to familiarize students with genetics and genomics as well as basic laboratory practices. This is important, since many students who enter the program have had little or no previous exposure to genetics, genomics, or to work in a laboratory. The second summer is spent at UAB, working in a research laboratory under the mentorship of a senior faculty member and associates in their lab. A number of career counseling seminars and events are provided as well. Students present a poster on their work at the end of the second summer at UAB. During the five years of the program, 41 students from a variety of HBCUs have participated in the program. Funding for this program is set to expire in August 2023 and an application is expected to be submitted in response to the new Diversity Action Plan RFA to be issued this summer. Funding associated with this RFA would not be available in time to recruit a new group of students for the summer of 2024. In order to maintain continuity of the program, supplemental funding will allow matriculation of a group of students to attend a one-year program in the summer of 2024. Because this would preclude commitment to a two-year program, the introduction year to genetics, genomics, and laboratory practice will be omitted from the program and a smaller number of students will be recruited who have had some previous exposure to work in a laboratory. Despite this change, it is important to continue to offer the program uninterrupted, to foster established relationships of UAB and HudsonAlpha with many of the HBCUs in the state. Hence, for the summer of 2024 supplemental funds would support a one-year program where students will have the opportunity to choose to work either at UAB in a research laboratory or at HudsonAlpha with a faculty investigator or a biotechnology company hosted on the HudsonAlpha campus. As in the past, seminars will be provided intended to provide career counseling to students and an opportunity for students to present their work at the end of the summer. Of note, this is a proposal for an extension with funds requested for the period of performance of September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024.

基因组医学暑期本科生研究体验（SURE-GM）旨在提供为阿拉巴马州历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 的新生提供基因组医学研究。该项目是阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校和 HudsonAlpha 生物技术研究所的合作项目阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔通过邮寄方式招募学生，并在可能的情况下由研究人员亲自访问 HBCU。该项目设计为为期两个夏天的体验，第一个夏天是在 HudsonAlpha 度过的。教学和实验室实践经验相结合，旨在让学生熟悉遗传学和基因组学以及基本的实验室实践很重要，因为许多进入该项目的学生都已经有过这种经历。以前很少或没有接触过遗传学、基因组学或在实验室工作。第二个夏天是在 UAB 度过的。在实验室高级教员和同事的指导下在研究实验室工作。学生还可以在课程结束时展示他们的工作海报。在 UAB 的第二个夏天，在该项目的五年中，来自不同 HBCU 的 41 名学生参加了该项目。该计划的资助将于 2023 年 8 月到期，预计将于 2023 年 8 月提交申请。对今年夏天发布的新多元化行动计划 RFA 的回应将不会获得与该 RFA 相关的资金。能够及时为 2024 年夏季招收一批新学生。为了保持课程的连续性计划，补充资金将允许一组学生入读一年的计划 2024 年夏天。因为这将排除对两年计划的承诺，即遗传学的入门年，该计划将省略基因组学和实验室实践，并将招收较少数量的学生尽管发生了这种变化，但继续提供服务还是很重要的。该计划不间断，以促进 UAB 和 HudsonAlpha 与该地区许多 HBCU 的既定关系因此，2024 年夏季的补充资金将支持为期一年的项目，学生将在该项目中学习。有机会选择在 UAB 的研究实验室或在 HudsonAlpha 与教员研究员一起工作，或者与过去一样，将在 HudsonAlpha 园区举办研讨会，旨在为学生提供职业咨询，并为学生提供在暑假结束时展示其作品的机会。值得注意的是，这是一项延期提案，要求为 2023 年 9 月 1 日的履约期提供资金 – 2024 年 8 月 31 日。