REU Site: Microbial friends and foes: towards a synthesis of interspecific interactions

康奈尔大学获得了本科生研究经验（REU）网站奖，该奖项将在2014-2016年夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的研究培训。 该计划侧重于宿主微生物的相互作用。 它将培养本科生的概念，研究问题，和实验方法的核心理解微生物与真核宿主的相互作用。 植物病理学植物微生物生物学系（PPPMB）有大约40名教师谁将担任导师。 PPPMB研究项目中的一个共同主题是物种间的相互作用，包括互利和对抗。 REU参与者将通过全职研究，实验室会议，每周研讨会和小组讨论了解微生物-真核生物相互作用的广泛多样性。 重点将放在教学的科学方法和策略进行研究，并在不同系统的种间相互作用的概念的综合。 学生还将参加研讨会，致力于研究伦理，电子数据库素养，科学引文软件，科学传播，规划研究生学习，包括关注个人陈述和简历，以及GRE准备。 REU学生将有机会获得丰富的个人导师的设施，以及康奈尔大学生命科学核心实验室专注于基因组学，蛋白质组学和质谱，显微镜和成像以及生物信息学和计算生物学。 该计划的多阶段招聘工作包括传统的“硬拷贝”格式以及基于数字的广告。 鼓励来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的本科生申请。 参与者是根据学习成绩，研究表现和生物学杰出研究的潜力来选择的。学生被跟踪，以确定他们对学习的学术领域的持续兴趣，他们的职业道路，以及研究经验的持久影响。 有关该计划的信息将通过各种方式进行评估，包括使用生物资助的REU PI可用的REU通用评估工具。 欲了解更多信息，请访问reu.pppmb.cornell.edu，或联系PI（Teresa Pawlowska博士，tep8@cornell.edu）或共同PI（Michael Milgroom博士，mgm5@cornell.edu）。

A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites award has been made to Cornell University that will provide research training for 10 students, for 10 weeks during the summers of 2014-2016. The program focuses on host-microbe interactions. It will train undergraduate students in the concepts, research questions, and experimental approaches central to understanding microbial interactions with eukaryotic hosts. The Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology (PPPMB) has about 40 faculty who will serve as mentors. A common theme among research programs in PPPMB is species interactions, both mutualistic and antagonistic. REU participants will learn about broad diversity of microbe-eukaryote interactions through full-time research, lab meetings, weekly seminars, and group discussions. Strong emphasis will be placed on teaching scientific method and strategies for conducting research, and on the synthesis of concepts of interspecific interactions across diverse systems. Students will also participate in workshops devoted to research ethics, electronic database literacy, science citation software, science communication, planning for graduate study, including attention to personal statements and resumes, and GRE preparation. REU students will have access to a rich array of individual mentor's facilities as well as the Cornell University Life Sciences Core Laboratories focused on genomics, proteomics and mass spectrometry, microscopy and imaging as well as bioinformatics and computational biology. The program's multi-phase recruitment effort consists of both traditional "hard copy" formats as well as digital-based advertising. Undergraduates from groups underrepresented in science are encouraged to apply. Participants are selected based on academic record, research performance, and potential for outstanding research in biology. Students are tracked to determine their continued interest in their academic field of study, their career paths, and the lasting influences of the research experience. Information about the program will be assessed by various means, including use of an REU common assessment tool available to BIO-funded REU PIs. More information is available by visiting reu.pppmb.cornell.edu, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Teresa Pawlowska at tep8@cornell.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Michael Milgroom at mgm5@cornell.edu).