REU Site: Chemistry Research Addressing Biological Problems

波士顿大学化学系支持2007-2009年夏季本科生研究经验（REU）项目。在为期十周的暑期项目中，项目主任约翰·斯奈德将由联合pi约翰·斯特劳布协助。学生将从本科院校和社区学院招收，本科研究机会有限，他们将从事使用基础化学科学来解决生物系统中基本问题的项目。这项研究跨越了传统的化学学科，包括淀粉样肽聚集的计算机模拟，以探测阿尔茨海默病，光化学技术的发展，以检测人类致病生物，有机合成的目标是发现新的生物探针和新的候选药物。对最先进仪器的培训将使学生能够根据需要在他们的研究中使用这些工具。讲习班和REU小组会议将说明研究工作在解决生物学问题方面的相互关系。演讲技巧将在个别研究小组的会议上得到磨练，也将在夏季结束的多学科研究研讨会上在整个波士顿大学本科生研究社区中得到磨练。

The Division of Chemistry supports this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Boston University (BU) for the summers of 2007-2009. The program director John Snyder will be assisted by co-PI John Straub in the ten-week summer program. Students will be recruited from undergraduate institutions and community colleges with limited opportunities for undergraduate research and will work on projects that use the basic chemical sciences to address fundamental questions in biological systems. The research ranges across traditional chemical disciplines and includes computer simulations of amyloid peptide aggregation to probe Alzheimer's disease, development of photochemical techniques to detect human pathogenic organisms, and organic syntheses targeting the discovery of novel biological probes and new drug candidates. Training on state-of-the-art instrumentation will allow students to use these tools in their research as needed. Workshops and REU group meetings will illustrate the interrelatedness of the research efforts in solving biological problems. Presentation skills will be honed in meetings of individual research groups as well as within the entire BU undergraduate research community in a summer-ending, multidisciplinary research symposium.