REU Site: Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Plant and Fungal Biodiversity

杜克大学生物系每年夏天将在生物信息学和系统发育方法研究植物和真菌生物多样性的研究项目中接待7名本科生。 该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。 申请参加生物信息学和系统发生学将接受大二和大三的本科生。 研究机会有限的学生，包括代表性不足的少数民族，特别鼓励申请。 七名教师谁将担任导师在我们的计划有积极的研究计划，从生命之树倡议，以重建物种层次的家谱，并在植物和真菌的物种和种群层次的基因组生物学。 为期十周的暑期课程的重点将是与参与教师的研究导师。 该系列将努力加强本科生参与者与研究生和高级人员的智力整合，通过开发包括三种类型的活动的方案主题为10周的本科生研究经验：（1）为期两天的方向;（2）每周两次的研讨会/讨论系列;和（3）一个研究论坛，介绍夏季的结果和结论。 其目的是为学生提供一个支持性的环境，因为他们通过夏季的进展，以及加强科学作为一个互动的企业的形象。杜克大学有着成功的本科生暑期研究项目的历史，特别是那些为妇女和少数民族提供培训经验的项目。我们已经从这方面的经验，并将能够利用现有的行政结构，既为招聘候选人的程序，并提供必要的后勤支持，从事和刺激的研究经验。 杜克大学的研究环境提供了最先进的设施，包括世界一流的植物和真菌研究收藏，植物和真菌和藻类文化的多样化生活参考收藏，杜克生物遗传分析设施，以及由杜克森林提供的实验环境，包括森林-大气碳转移和储存（FACTS-I）网站。欲了解更多信息和申请材料，请联系保罗马诺斯博士在pmanos@duke.edu或（919）660-7358，或访问http://www.biology.duke.edu/reu。

The Department of Biology at Duke University will host seven undergraduate students each summer in a research program in Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Plant and Fungal Biodiversity. The site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. Applications to participate in Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics will be accepted from sophomore and junior undergraduates. Students with limited opportunities for research, including under-represented minorities, are especially encouraged to apply. The seven faculty who will serve as mentors in our program have active research programs ranging from the Tree of Life initiative to reconstructing species-level genealogies, and within species and population-level genomic-based biology of plants and fungi. The focus of the ten-week summer program will be a research mentorship with a participating faculty member. The series will strive to reinforce the intellectual integration of the undergraduate participants with graduate students and senior personnel by developing the programmatic theme including three types of activities into a ten-week undergraduate research experience: (1) a two-day orientation; (2) a twice-weekly seminar/discussion series; and (3) a research forum for presenting the summer's results and conclusions. The intention is to provide a supportive environment to the students as they progress through the summer, as well as to reinforce the image of science as an interactive enterprise. Duke University has a history of successful undergraduate summer research programs, especially those that provide training experiences for women and minorities. We have drawn from this experience and will be able to make use of existing administrative structures both for recruiting candidates to the program and for providing the logistical support necessary for an engaging and stimulating research experience. The research environment at Duke offers state-of-the-art facilities, including world-class research collections of plants and fungi, a diverse living reference collection of plants and cultures of fungi and algae, the Duke Biology Genetic Analysis Facility, and the experimental setting provided by the Duke Forest, including the Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-I) site. For further information and application materials, please contact Dr. Paul Manos at pmanos@duke.edu or (919) 660-7358, or visit http://www.biology.duke.edu/reu.