REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Molecular Biology and Genetics

印第安纳大学REU Site项目成立于1998年，自2000年以来一直由NSF资助。每年有10名本科生来到布鲁明顿校区，参与分子生物学和遗传学前沿的研究。所有学生的申请都会被考虑，特别是那些来自传统上在科学领域代表性不足的少数群体的申请，以及来自研究机会有限的机构的申请。学生在实验室进行研究，利用分子生物学和基因技术研究基本的生物机制，包括基因表达的调节，植物、动物、真菌和细菌中细胞分化和发育的机制，植物中寄主和寄生虫的相互作用和抗病，分子进化，信号转导，DNA修复，有丝分裂和减数分裂的细胞机制，蛋白质结构，以及病毒感染和复制。这项计划旨在发展参与者的技术和智力能力。每个学生都在导师的密切监督下进行一项研究项目。学生还撰写研究提案和正式论文，在项目结束的研讨会上发表研究演讲，并参加关于研究伦理、研究生院和其他感兴趣的主题的会议。学生们还可以在每周午餐时间的研讨会上接触到在一系列实验室进行的研究。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.bio.indiana.edu/undergrad/opportunities/mbgreu/index.html，，或联系REU协调员：iusummer@Bio.Indiana.edu。

The Indiana University REU Site program was established in 1998 and has been funded by NSF since 2000. Ten undergraduate students per year come to the Bloomington campus to participate in research at the frontiers of molecular biology and genetics. Applications from all students are considered, especially those from minority groups traditionally under-represented in science and those from institutions with limited research opportunities. Students conduct research in laboratories that use molecular biology and genetic techniques to investigate basic biological mechanisms, including the regulation of gene expression, the mechanisms of cell differentiation and development in plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria, host-parasite interaction and disease resistance in plants, molecular evolution, signal transduction, DNA repair, cellular mechanisms of mitosis and meiosis, protein structure, and virus infection and replication. This program is designed to develop both the technical and the intellectual abilities of the participants. Each student conducts a research project under close mentor supervision. Students also write research proposals and formal papers, present research talks at an end-of-program symposium, and participate in sessions on research ethics, graduate school, and other topics of interest. Students are also exposed to research conducted in a range of laboratories during weekly lunchtime seminars. More information is available at http://www.bio.indiana.edu/undergrad/opportunities/mbgreu/index.html, or by contacting the REU coordinator at iusummer@bio.indiana.edu.