A Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Development Biology

该奖项为华盛顿大学生物和生物医学科学系提供资金，以继续成功的REU网站。每年夏天，来自不同大学和种族背景的约36名本科生将在该大学进行为期10周的发育生物学研究。导师将由学生从大约40名教师中选出，这些教师拥有活跃的、资金充足的研究小组，并在广泛的实验系统中研究发展机制。重点将是让每个学生在这些富有成效的研究小组中积极参与越来越独立的研究。然而，为了让学生在更广泛的背景下看待自己的研究，该计划将提供五种类型的补充活动：(1)讨论当代发育生物学研究中重要的模式生物、方法和范例的讲习班；(2)专门为学生设计的教师研讨会；(3)参加现有的发育生物学杂志俱乐部；（iv）一个由学生自己经营并为学生服务的平行期刊俱乐部；(v)一个夏末研究静修会，所有学生将在该静修会上发表论文，总结他们的研究成果。还将提供经常进行同侪群体社会交往的机会。

This award provides funds to the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University to continue a successful REU Site. Each summer, about 36 undergraduates from diverse collegiate and ethnic backgrounds will spend 10 weeks engaged in developmental biology research at the University. Mentors will be selected by the students from about 40 faculty members who have active, well-funded research groups and who study developmental mechanisms in a wide range of experimental systems. The emphasis will be on getting each student actively engaged in increasingly independent research in one of these productive research groups. However, to permit students to view their own research in a broader context, the program will provide five types of supplemental activities: (i) workshops dealing with important model organisms, methods and paradigms in contemporary developmental biology research, (ii) faculty seminars designed specifically for the students, (iii) participation in the existing Developmental Biology Journal Club, (iv) a parallel journal club run by and for the students themselves and (v) an end-of-summer research retreat at which all students will present papers summarizing their research accomplishments. Opportunities for frequent peer-group social interactions will also be provided.