REU: Biology of Endophytic Fungi: An Integrative Approach

该奖项为东北部密苏里州提供资金 大学（NMSU）科学部继续成功的 NSF-REU程序。 在1993年和1994年的夏天， 本科生将获得财政支持， 让他们参与到密集的，全职的 研究经验。 为了证明其强大的 致力于本科研究，NMSU将使几个 捐款，包括：文书支助，免费校内 提供食宿，并免除3个月的学杂费。 大学学分给学生参与者。 学生，3名来自NMSU，4名来自校外，7名教师 导师将组成一个研究小组，重点研究 一个单一的系统：草/真菌内共生。学生将 根据他们的独立性和积极性进行选择， 研究潜力和职业目标。讨论 学生和导师之间的关系将构成匹配的基础 学生在特定的研究领域。学生将在 研究领域广泛，从化学分析， 真菌生物碱，生态和生理 对禾本科植物来说， 真菌生物碱对昆虫和哺乳动物消费者的影响 真菌中心重点将整合不同的研究 生物组织的水平，并将有助于促进统一 和团体成员之间的关系。该计划包括 学生交流工作的几个机会 其他人，包括要求口头介绍其 的项目所有权，并旨在 学生.

This award provides funds to the Northeast Missouri State University (NMSU) Science Division to continue a successful NSF-REU program . During the summers of 1993 and 1994 seven undergraduate students will be given financial support to allow them to participate in and intensive, full-time research experience. As demonstration of its strong commitment to undergraduate research, NMSU will make several contributions, including: clerical support, free on-campus room and board and a waiver of tuition and fees for 3 college credits to student participants. Students, 3 from NMSU and 4 from off-campus, and 7 faculty mentors will form a research team, focusing on the study of a single system: grass/fungi endosymbioses. Students will be selected based on their independence and motivation, research potential, and professional goals. Discussions between student and mentor will form the basis for matching students to specific research areas. Students will work in research areas that range widely from chemical analysis of fungal alkaloids, to ecological and physiological implications for grasses of harboring a fungus, to effects of fungal alkaloids on insect and mammalian consumers of the fungus. The central focus will integrate study at different levels of biological organization and will help foster unity and community among group members. The program includes several opportunities for students to communicate their work to others, including a required oral presentation of their findings, and is aimed to develop project ownership by the student.