REU Site: UC Berkeley Summer BioChIP (Biology on a Chip Internship Program)

REU 网站：加州大学伯克利分校夏季 BioChIP（芯片生物学实习计划）

• 批准号: 0852058
• 负责人: Luke Lee
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852058&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; UC; Berkeley; Summer

This REU site program entitled "Biology on a Chip Internship Program (BioChiP)" will be hosted by the Department of Bioengineering and the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) at the University of California at Berkeley. The BioChIP mission is to lay the scientific and engineering foundations for the design, simulation, fabrication and characterization of novel quantitative biological diagnostic devices for use in clinical and research settings. The students' research experience will be enhanced by a variety of educational activities. They will attend a weekly workshop that will be focused on how to design experiments, how to structure logical oral presentations and written reports as well as how to successfully prepare for graduate school admissions. Journal articles relevant to the field of biological diagnostics will also be presented at this weekly meeting. Each participant will be required to read and present one journal article over the course of the 10-week program. The REU site program will culminate with a final Poster Symposium at which each participant will present a poster that summarizes his or her summer research project.An interesting feature of this REU program is the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) component. During this program 2 San Francisco Bay Area high school teachers will spend 1-week in the BioChip laboratory at the BNC learning a high-school appropriate microfluidics lab exercise. At the end of the program each high school teacher will receive a stipend and support for supplies to run the microfluidics lab exercise with their students at the high schools.The Principal Investigator (PI) will focus recruitment efforts towards students from members of underrepresented minorities and students from schools where research opportunities are limited. The goal is to have 75% of the participants come from underrepresented groups and 50% of the participants be women. Also, by including the RET component to teach high school teachers a microfluidics lab exercise, the PI hopes to reach a diverse pool of high school students who otherwise might not have considered careers in science or engineering.

这个REU网站计划题为“生物学芯片实习计划（BioChiP）”将由生物工程系和生物分子纳米技术中心（BNC）在加州大学伯克利分校主办。 BioChIP的使命是为临床和研究环境中使用的新型定量生物诊断设备的设计、模拟、制造和表征奠定科学和工程基础。学生的研究经验将通过各种教育活动得到加强。 他们将参加每周一次的研讨会，重点是如何设计实验，如何组织逻辑口头陈述和书面报告，以及如何成功地为研究生入学做准备。与生物诊断领域相关的期刊文章也将在每周会议上发表。 每个参与者将被要求阅读和提出一个期刊文章在10周的课程。 REU网站计划将以最后的海报研讨会结束，每位参与者将提交一张海报，总结他或她的夏季研究项目。这个REU计划的一个有趣的特点是教师的研究经验（RET）组件。 在这个项目中，2名旧金山弗朗西斯科的高中教师将在BNC的生物芯片实验室度过1周的时间，学习高中适当的微流体实验室练习。 在项目结束时，每位高中教师都将获得一笔津贴和物资支持，以便与他们的学生一起在高中进行微流体实验室练习。首席研究员（PI）将把招聘工作的重点放在来自代表性不足的少数民族成员的学生和来自研究机会有限的学校的学生上。 目标是75%的参与者来自代表性不足的群体，50%的参与者是妇女。此外，通过包括RET组件来教授高中教师微流体实验室练习，PI希望接触到不同的高中生，否则他们可能不会考虑从事科学或工程职业。