Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Developmental Biology

发育生物学暑期本科生研究计划

• 批准号: 9820519
• 负责人: David Kirk
• 金额: $ 16.66万
• 依托单位: Washington University School of Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-06-15 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9820519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; Undergraduate; Research; Program; Developmental

Each year, 20 students (10 to be supported by NSF REU funds, and 10 to be supported by local funds) will be selected from colleges and universities around the country to spend a ten week period between early June and mid-August at Washington University, in order to engage in intensive developmental-biology research under the guidance of one of the more than 50 potential faculty mentors. The emphasis of the program will be on getting all of the students quickly engaged in interesting research projects in active, productive laboratories, and on aiding them to move as quickly and as far as possible in the direction of becoming independent research investigators. However, the students will also be provided with an assortment of supplemental activities designed to aid them in developing other aspects of their scientific personae; these will include: (i) A series of weekly seminars and workshops led by faculty, in which students will be introduced to the leading model systems, methods and paradigms of modem developmental biology. (ii) An overnight retreat devoted to discussion of issues and problems in research ethics will be held at nearby Meramec State Park in the second week of each summer program. (iii) A follow-up to the retreat will occur at the bi-weekly Ethics Forum, in which participants grapple with issues in research ethics raised by scenarios prepared by a different group of students each time. (iv) In alternate weeks these student meetings will be devoted to a Developmental Biology Journal Club. (A graduate student with appropriate interests and experience will serve as organizer and moderator of these two kinds of weekly meetings.) (v) The program will conclude with a day-long Undergraduate Research Symposium, in which each of the participants will make a presentation summarizing her/his summer's research accomplishments.

每年，20名学生（10人由NSF REU基金支持，10人由当地基金支持）将从全国各地的学院和大学中选出，在6月初至8月中旬期间在华盛顿大学度过10周的时间，以便在50多名潜在教师导师之一的指导下从事密集的发育生物学研究。该计划的重点将是让所有学生迅速参与活跃，富有成效的实验室中有趣的研究项目，并帮助他们尽快成为独立的研究调查员。然而，学生还将提供各种各样的补充活动，旨在帮助他们发展他们的科学人物的其他方面;这些将包括：（i）由教师领导的一系列每周研讨会和讲习班，学生将被介绍给现代发育生物学的领先模型系统，方法和范式。(ii)在每个夏季项目的第二周，将在附近的Meramec州立公园举行一个通宵务虚会，专门讨论研究伦理方面的问题。(iii)务虚会的后续活动将在每两周一次的伦理论坛上进行，与会者将在论坛上讨论每次由不同学生小组准备的情景所提出的研究伦理问题。(iv)每隔一周，这些学生会议将专门用于发育生物学期刊俱乐部。（具有适当兴趣和经验的研究生将担任这两种每周会议的组织者和主持人。）(v)该计划将以为期一天的本科研究研讨会结束，其中每个参与者将做一个总结她/他夏天的研究成果的演讲。