Choose Development! to broaden participation of underrepresented undergraduates in developmental biology research

选择发展！

• 批准号: 10270461
• 负责人: Graciela Alexandra Unguez
• 金额: $ 15.15万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10270461
• 关键词: Area; Atmosphere; Awareness; Biomechanics; Cells; Communities; Complement; Computer Analysis; Development; Developmental Biology; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Etiology; Event; Faculty; Genes; Goals; Immersion; Infrastructure; Institution; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Laboratory Study; Leadership; Manuscripts; Mentors; Mentorship; Morphogenesis; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Organ; Organism; Organogenesis; Outcome; Participant; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Program Development; Publications; Regulator Genes; Research; Schools; Science; Societies; Students; Systems Biology; Tissues; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Whole Organism; broadening participation research; career; disability; disadvantaged population; experience; graduate student; hands on research; interest; literate; medical schools; meetings; member; nuclear reprogramming; programs; regenerative biology; role model; socioeconomic disadvantage; stem cell biology; stem cells; student mentoring; undergraduate student

Unguez, G PROJECT ABSTRACT The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) is diversifying the community of developmental biologists by supporting undergraduate students who are members of groups underrepresented in basic/biomedical developmental biology and related research fields. SDB is able to achieve this goal because of the Society’s unique infrastructure already in place by the Choose Development! (CD) Program (2013-present), which provides a research-intensive undergraduate training experience to undergraduate students at a lab of an established developmental biologist, a multi-level mentoring plan for each student, society-wide recognition and enculturation activities at national meetings and continued support in years after participation in the Choose Development! Program. Key outcomes of the introductory Choose Development! Program include: (1) Of a total of 33 undergraduate Fellows, 63% of Fellows that have graduated (27) have entered a graduate program in developmental biology or closely related field (including one MD/PhD), 11% have entered medical school, and 11% have taken gap years in preparation towards submitting a more competitive application to graduate schools while working in their previous mentors’ lab; (2) to date, a total of 10 publications have involved the research of CD Fellows, with 8 manuscripts having a Fellow as a co-author and 2 crediting Fellows in the acknowledgements; (3) increased awareness and appreciation across the entire SDB led to proactive actions aimed at diversifying committees, Board of Directors, increased representation from non-R1 institutions, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students on the Board and active searches of underrepresented speakers at annual meetings. These cumulative outcomes of the CD Program have provided these Fellows an atmosphere of inclusiveness within the entire SDB and has impacted their continuation in the field. Proposed educational and mentoring activities enhance the two-summer immersion requirement of each participant in the research laboratory of an established SDB member anywhere in the USA. Summer hands-on research experiences by trainees will take place in laboratories that study the development of multicellular organisms at the molecule, cell, tissue, organ and whole organism levels and cover topics ranging from stem cells and nuclear reprogramming to evolutionary developmental and systems biology, and from computational analysis to identify gene regulatory networks involved in morphogenesis and organogenesis to the etiology of disease - all topics of great relevance to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

unguez，g 项目摘要 发育生物学学会（SDB）正在使发展社区多样化 生物学家通过支持群体成员代表性不足的学生来支持地下学生 在基础/生物医学发育生物学和相关研究领域中。 这个目标是因为社会的独特基础设施已经到位 发展！ 培训经验，是一位既定的发展生物学家ATAB的本科生， 每个学生，社会范围的认可和培养活动的多级计划 在全国会议上，并在剧院参与选择中支持 开发问题 包括：（1）总共33个地下研究员，有63％的毕业者（27） 在发育生物学或密切相关的领域中输入研究生课程（包括一个 医学博士/博士学位），有11％进入医学院，而11％的PREP花费了很多时间 在工作时向研究生院提交更具竞争力的申请 以前的导师实验室（2），迄今 研究员，有8个手稿有一个合着者的家伙，并在你的2个学分的研究员 致谢（3）提高了整个SDB的认识和欣赏 旨在多元化委员会，董事会，增加代表的积极行动 来自非R1机构，博士后研究员和董事会的研究生 在年度会议上搜索代表性不足的演讲者。 CD计划已证明这些同伴在整个SDB中具有包容性的气氛 并影响了他们在该领域的束缚。 提高每个参与者在研究实验室中的两个夏末要求 在美国任何地方都建立的SDB成员。 学员将在研究多细胞生物的发展的负责人中 分子，细胞，组织，器官和整个生物水平，涵盖茎的主题 细胞和核重编程，以进化发展和系统生物学，从 计算分析以识别涉及形态发生和的基因调节网络 疾病病因的器官形成 - 与国家研究所的所有主题 儿童健康和人类发展。