Workshop: Illinois Summer Neuroscience Institue, University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign, IL; May 2010, 2011 and 2012

该项目将为伊利诺伊州夏季神经科学研究所(ISNI)提供为期三年的支持。该研究所为学生提供神经科学研究、研究生院、神经科学职业和神经科学界的入门课程。ISNI是为期一周的神经科学密集入门课程，主要针对本科生头两年在科学领域代表性较低的群体的学生。ISNI在伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(UIUC)校园举行，由UIUC神经科学项目组织和领导。学生从UIUC教员那里学习最先进的问题和技术，他们是神经科学领域的广泛专家。在听到教员关于研究的情况后，学生们进行实验室练习，让他们体验研究的挑战、兴奋和不可避免的挫折。这些练习将利用UIUC在昆虫神经行为学和果蝇遗传学方面的专业知识。该研究所的目的是吸引学生进入神经科学，否则他们可能没有机会或接触到该学科和神经科学界。最终目标是扩大申请者池，特别是从代表性不足的群体，扩大到UIUC和美国的其他神经科学项目。

This project will support the Illinois Summer Neuroscience Institute (ISNI) for three years. The Institute provides students with an introduction to neuroscience research, to graduate school, to careers in neuroscience, and to the neuroscience community. The ISNI is a one-week intensive introduction to neuroscience, targeting mainly students from underrepresented groups in science, in their first two years of undergraduate study. The ISNI is held at the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is organized and led by the UIUC Neuroscience Program. Students learn about state of the art questions and techniques from UIUC faculty who are experts in a broad range of areas within neuroscience. After hearing about research from the faculty, the students conduct a laboratory exercise that allows them to experience the challenge, excitement, and the inevitable frustrations of research. The exercises will take advantage of the expertise in insect neuroethology and Drosophila genetics at UIUC. The purpose of the Institute is to attract students to neuroscience who might not otherwise have the opportunity or exposure to the discipline and to the neuroscience community. The ultimate goal is to expand the pool of applicants, especially from underrepresented groups, to UIUC and to other neuroscience programs in the US.