REU: Undergraduate Research Developmental Regulation

该奖项为卡尔顿学院和其他地区学院和大学的9名本科生提供为期10周的暑期研究经验。参与前的阅读要求将为学生提供有意义的科学调查的充分基础。在夏季，学生将在实验室与研究主管一对一的关系中工作。每周的研讨会将为学生提供讨论研究计划和结果以及深入研究初级科学文章的机会。为了进一步集中和统一学生参与者，我们选择了一个发展调节的主题。9个项目中有6个与这一主题直接相关，仲夏研讨会将用于讨论这一领域的当前文献。项目将包括调查：鸡胚Hensen’s结的功能结构、烟草花发育的调控、玉米B染色体对发育过程的影响、大鼠肝脏糖皮质激素受体的结构和功能等。爪蟾突触连接的发育，复合性别表达的变化，动物行为的进化和机制，以及绿虫对小头多毛纲种群生物学的影响。有机会在寒假期间完成研究和写作。

This award provides funds for a 10 week summer research experience for nine undergraduates from Carleton College and other regional colleges and universities. Pre-participation reading requirements will provide students with an adequate foundation for meaningful scientific investigation. During the summer, students will work in a one-to-one relationship with a research supervisor in the laboratory. Weekly seminars will provide students with the opportunity to discuss research plans and results as well as to delve into primary scientific articles. To further focus and unify the student participants, a theme of developmental regulation has been selected. Six of the nine projects relate directly to this theme and mid-summer seminars will be used to discuss current literature in this area. Projects will include investigations of: the mechanisms of action and the chemical characteristics of a possibly-steroid pheromone produced by Oedogonium, functional structure of Hensen's node in the chick embryo, regulation of floral development in tobacco, effect of B chromosome in maize on developmental processes, structure and function of the glucocorticoid receptor in rat liver, development of synaptic connections in Xenopus, variation of sex expression in composites, evolution and mechanisms of animal behavior, and effect of gregarine parasites on population biology of capitellid polychaetes. Opportunities to complete research and writing during winter break will be available.