Undergraduate Research Developmental Regulation

该奖项为来自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周的暑期研究体验支持。参与前的阅读要求将为学生进行有意义的科学调查提供足够的基础。暑假期间，学生们将与实验室的研究导师进行一对一的工作。每周的研讨会将为学生提供讨论研究计划和结果的机会，以及钻研主要科学文章的机会。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。九个项目中有六个与这一主题直接相关，将利用仲夏研讨会来讨论这一领域的当前文学。项目将包括：由Oedogonium产生的一种可能的类固醇激素的作用机制和化学特征，鸡胚Hensen‘s结节的功能结构，烟草花发育的调节，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，非洲爪哇突触连接的发育，复合体中性别表达的变化，歌唱交流在红衣主教父母照顾协调中的作用，以及Gregine寄生虫对头多毛类种群生物学的影响。将有机会在寒假期间完成研究和写作。

This award provides support 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 provides student 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 pheomone produced by Oedogonium, functional structure of Hensen's node in the chick embryo, regulation of floral development in tobacco, effect of B chromosomes 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, role of song communication in coordination of parental care in cardinals, and effect of gregarine parasites on population biology of capitellid polychaetes. Opportunities to complete research and writing during winter break will be available.