REU: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Developmental Biology

这一奖项将支持每年11名本科生参加由密苏里州圣路易斯市华盛顿大学医学院提供的本科生研究体验计划。每个学生参与者将在一位他/她选择的教师导师的指导下，在十周的时间内从事发育生物学研究，该教师是从大约40名拥有活跃的、资金充足的研究项目的教师中挑选出来的，他们在各种实验系统中研究发育机制。为了让学生在更广泛的背景下看待他们的研究项目，将提供五种类型的补充活动：(I)在州立公园举行的初夏静修，参与者将在那里见面，探索研究伦理问题，并被介绍到发育生物学的研究；(Ii)关于当代发育生物学研究中重要的模式生物、方法和范例的工作坊；(Iii)专门为学生设计的教师研讨会；(Iv)参加学生发育生物学期刊俱乐部；及(V)夏季结束研究研讨会，学生将在会上作报告，总结他们的研究成果。还将提供频繁的、非正式的社交互动机会。该奖项将促进对将成为发育生物学下一代基础研究人员一部分的个人的继续教育和培训。

This award will support the participation of 11 undergraduate students each year in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program offered by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. Each student participant will spend ten weeks engaged in developmental biology research under the direction a faculty mentor of his/her choice, selected from among ca. 40 faculty members who have active, well-funded research programs and who study developmental mechanisms in a wide variety of experimental systems. To permit students to view their research projects in a broader context, five types of supplemental activities will be provided: (i) a beginning-of-the-summer retreat at a state park, where participants will meet with each other, explore the issue of research ethics, and become introduced to the study of developmental biology; (ii) workshops dealing with important model organisms, methods, and paradigms in contemporary developmental biology research; (iii) faculty seminars designed specifically for the students; (iv) participation in a student developmental biology journal club; and (v) and end-of-the-summer research symposium at which students will make presentations summarizing their research accomplishments. Opportunities for frequent, informal social interactions will also be provided. This award will foster the continued education and training of individuals who will be part of the next generation of basic researchers in the developmental biology.