REU Site: Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technology and Engineering (CREATE)

REU 网站：农业技术与工程合作研究与教育 (CREATE)

• 批准号: 0852090
• 负责人: Jean VanderGheynst
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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=0852090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Collaborative; Research; Education

EEC-0852090P.I. Jean VanderGheynstThe REU Site award, entitled "Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technology and Engineering (CREATE)" will provide undergraduate students with integrated research and educational training in plant sciences, molecular biology and engineering. In this REU program the participants will be involved in cutting edge research areas that address the following major problems facing our nation and the world: 1) Lack of rapid production technologies for vaccine manufacturing; 2) Rising health care costs; 3) Dependence on fossil fuels for energy and chemical feedstocks; and 4) Contaminated soil and groundwater. In order to address these major societal problems, the CREATE program will focus on the development and use of transgenic plants and/or in vitro plant based systems for the production of industrial non-food products, biopharmaceuticals and for bioremediation. This REU program is well structured with a high level of interaction between peers and mentors. The undergraduate students will be part of highly diverse interdisciplinary research teams, made up of faculty and graduate student research mentors, from a variety of disciplines, including Biological Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics. In addition to the research activities, REU students will be required take at least one short course offered in plant biotechnology or plant bioprocessing to learn critical experimental methods used in plant biotechnology and to strengthen their research skills. They will also participate in alternating weekly research seminars on the topical themes and on ethics, individual and team presentation challenges, speech and poster development training, seminars and practice modules in pre-graduate preparation and submitting graduate applications, and a faculty-protégé retreat. The program will culminate with a CREATE REU Research Symposium to enable participants to showcase their individual research findings and accomplishments and prepare them for scientific and professional society conference attendance and presentations.The Principal Investigator is committed to recruiting undergraduate participants from underrepresented groups. This REU program will prepare undergraduate students for graduate-level research related to agricultural biotechnology and prepare them to be the research and educational leaders of the future who will help solve society's most pressing problems related to affordable vaccines and therapeutics, energy sustainability and environmental stewardship.Co-funding for this project is provided by the NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI).

欧共体- 0852090 - p。REU Site奖名为“农业技术与工程的合作研究与教育（CREATE）”，将为本科生提供植物科学、分子生物学和工程方面的综合研究和教育培训。在这个REU项目中，参与者将参与解决我们国家和世界面临的以下主要问题的前沿研究领域：1)缺乏疫苗制造的快速生产技术；2)医疗成本上升；3)能源和化工原料依赖化石燃料；4)土壤和地下水污染。为了解决这些主要的社会问题，CREATE项目将专注于开发和使用转基因植物和/或体外植物系统，用于生产工业非食品产品、生物制药和生物修复。这个REU项目结构良好，同龄人和导师之间的互动程度很高。本科生将成为高度多样化的跨学科研究团队的一部分，该团队由来自不同学科的教师和研究生研究导师组成，包括生物系统工程、化学工程、植物生物学、植物病理学、生物化学和分子生物学以及遗传学。除了研究活动外，REU学生还将被要求参加至少一门植物生物技术或植物生物加工的短期课程，以学习植物生物技术中使用的关键实验方法，并加强他们的研究技能。他们还将参加关于专题和道德、个人和团队演讲挑战、演讲和海报发展培训、研究生预科准备和提交研究生申请的研讨会和实践模块，以及教师- <s:1> <s:1>职业通讯和培训课程。该计划将以CREATE REU研究研讨会结束，使参与者能够展示他们的个人研究成果和成就，并为科学和专业社会会议的出席和演讲做好准备。首席研究员致力于从代表性不足的群体中招募本科生参与者。这个REU项目将为本科学生准备与农业生物技术相关的研究生水平的研究，并准备他们成为未来的研究和教育领导者，他们将帮助解决与负担得起的疫苗和治疗，能源可持续性和环境管理相关的社会最紧迫的问题。该项目由美国国家科学基金会生物基础设施部（DBI）共同资助。