REU Site: Exploring Engineered Cells

REU 站点：探索工程细胞

• 批准号: 1005083
• 负责人: Surita Bhatia
• 金额: $ 32.88万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-15 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1005083&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Exploring; Engineered; Cells

This three year REU Site program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will engage 9 undergraduate students in research projects that involve applications of cellular engineering to challenges in pharmaceutical production, protein design, and bioenergy. Understanding cellular function and manipulating cells/tissues to perform in a particular manner is the basis of many ventures in biomedical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Specific objectives of this REU Site program are to: 1) encourage and motivate students to pursue graduate studies in cellular engineering, including women, minority, and deaf and hearing impaired students; (2) train students to transition from dependent to independent researchers; 3) enable students to communicate effectively across disciplines; and 4) provide students with strategies for professional success through a Professional Development Seminar. In addition to the research projects, the REU participants will be involved in research cluster meetings with larger groups of students and faculty; a Professional Development Seminar covering career paths, ethics, diversity in the workplace, identifying mentors, interdisciplinary communication, team-building, and development of collegial relationships; research seminars by faculty and graduate students; and an end of year student poster session.What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?Recruitment efforts will target students majoring in chemical engineering, bioengineering, chemistry, biology and biochemistry. The PI will leverage the NSF-funded Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) and the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), both led by the University of Massachusetts campus, to enhance the recruitment of underrepresented minority students. In addition, the Principal Investigator will collaborate with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology to increase participation of deaf and hearing impaired students in this REU program.

马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特大学（University of Massachets Amherst）的三年REU网站计划将与9名本科生参与研究项目，其中涉及将蜂窝工程应用于药品生产，蛋白质设计和生物能源的挑战。 了解细胞功能和操纵细胞/组织以特定方式执行是生物医学，生物技术和制药行业的许多企业的基础。 该REU网站计划的具体目标是：1）鼓励和激励学生从事细胞工程研究生学习，包括妇女，少数群体和聋人以及听力障碍的学生； （2）培训学生从依赖到独立研究人员的过渡； 3）使学生能够在学科之间有效沟通； 4）通过专业发展研讨会为学生提供专业成功的策略。除研究项目外，REU参与者还将与较大的学生和教职员工一起参加研究集群会议；专业发展研讨会涵盖了职业道路，道德，工作场所的多样性，确定导师，跨学科的沟通，团队建设以及合作关系的发展；教职员工和研究生的研究研讨会；以及一年的学生海报会议。拟议活动的更广泛影响是什么？招聘工作将以化学工程，生物工程，化学，生物学和生物化学为主修的学生。 PI将利用NSF资助的东北联盟进行研究生教育和教授（NEAGEP）和马萨诸塞大学校园领导的东北路易斯·斯托克斯联盟（LSAMP）（LSAMP），以增强代表人数不足的少数族裔学生的招聘。 此外，首席研究员将与罗切斯特理工学院的国家聋人国家技术研究所（NTID）合作，以增加聋人和听力受损的REU计划的参与。