REU Site: Research in Prokaryotic Biology

位于格鲁吉亚雅典的格鲁吉亚大学获得的REU Site奖将支持在2015-2017年夏季对10名学生进行9周的培训。本课程将向本科生介绍微生物研究领域，并提高他们对微生物学职业的认识。来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生，包括聋哑人和重听学生以及少数民族，被鼓励参加该计划。REU的参与者在几个系的教师导师的监督下进行独立的项目，这些系包括但不限于：微生物学、海洋科学和传染病。所有这些都提供了解决原核生物功能的各种研究课题。目前的技术将被用于结合遗传学、生物化学、生物信息学、生理学、分子生物学、细胞生物学和生态学领域的知识的跨学科方法。研究项目将涉及广泛的问题，包括原核生物在环境和地球化学过程中的作用。学员将参加研讨会，以熟悉微生物学研究生院的申请和职业。学生申请通过项目网站以电子方式提交。竞争激烈的学生将由一个教职员工委员会选出。参与者将使用通用评估工具(SALG Urssa)评估REU计划的质量。预计将有30名学生在该计划中接受培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校。学生将学习研究是如何进行的，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。此外，学生将与教员举行非正式会议，参加科学研讨会，参与科学伦理问题的讨论，并参加实验室小组的定期研究会议。学生们将在暑期结束时在海报环节中展示他们的研究成果。学生必须在项目结束后被跟踪，并必须回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://mib.uga.edu/programs，，或联系国际和平组织(文森特·J·斯塔艾博士，电子邮件：vjstarai@uga.edu)或联合国际组织(戴安娜·唐斯博士，电子邮件：dmdowns@uga.edu)。

This REU Site award to the University of Georgia, located in Athens, Georgia, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2015-2017. This program will introduce undergraduates to areas of microbial research and increase their awareness of careers in microbiology. Students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific community, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students and ethnic minorities, are encouraged to participate in the program. REU participants conduct independent projects under the supervision of faculty mentors residing in several Departments including, but not limited to: Microbiology, Marine Sciences, and Infectious Diseases. All provide a variety of research topics that address the functions of prokaryotic organisms. Current techniques will be used in interdisciplinary approaches that combine knowledge from the fields of Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Ecology. Research projects will address broad questions including the role of prokaryotes in environmental and geochemical processes. Participants will attend workshops to become familiar with graduate school application and careers in microbiology. Student applications are submitted electronically through the program website. Competitive students will be selected by a committee of faculty. Participants will assess the quality of the REU program by use of a common assessment tool (SALG URSSA).It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Furthermore, students will have informal meetings with faculty, attend scientific seminars, participate in discussions of ethical issues in science, and join the regular research meetings of their lab groups. Students will present their research results at the end of the summer in a poster session. Students are required to be tracked after the program and must respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://mib.uga.edu/programs, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Vincent J. Starai at vjstarai@uga.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Diana Downs at dmdowns@uga.edu).