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招收7名本科生参加植物和真菌生物多样性研究的生物信息学和系统发育方法研究项目。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作支持。生物信息学和系统遗传学将接受大二和大三本科生的申请。特别鼓励研究机会有限的学生，包括代表性不足的少数民族学生申请。在我们的项目中担任导师的7位教员都有活跃的研究项目，从生命之树计划到重建物种水平的家谱，以及物种和种群水平的植物和真菌基因组生物学。这个为期十周的暑期项目的重点将是与一名参与的教员进行研究指导。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，通过将项目主题包括三种类型的活动发展为为期十周的本科生研究体验：(1)为期两天的定向；(2)每周两次的研讨会/讨论系列；(3)一个研究论坛，展示夏季的成果和结论。这样做的目的是为学生们提供一个支持性的环境，让他们在整个夏天都能取得进步，同时强化科学作为一项互动事业的形象。杜克大学有成功的本科生暑期研究项目的历史，特别是那些为女性和少数民族提供培训经验的项目。我们吸取了这一经验，并将能够利用现有的行政结构来招募项目候选人，并提供必要的后勤支持，以获得引人入胜和刺激的研究经验。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，多种植物和真菌和藻类培养物的参考收藏，杜克大学生物遗传分析设施，以及杜克大学森林提供的实验环境，包括森林-大气碳转移和储存（FACTS-I）站点。欲了解更多信息和申请材料，请联系Paul Manos博士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.