REU Site: Next generation Evolutionary Biology

这个REU网站奖给俄亥俄州州立大学，位于哥伦布，OH，将支持10名学生的培训10周期间2017- 2019年的夏天。该计划将招募正在崛起的大学生和大三学生与进化，生态学和有机生物学系的研究导师合作，利用先进的分子生物学和信息学技术解决植物，微生物或动物之间的进化关系问题大规模并行DNA序列数据。除了培养研究项目设计，数据收集和分析的技能外，该计划还将侧重于学生的专业发展，包括与工业，自然资源管理和哥伦布动物园的生物学家会面。学生将通过网站，招聘访问本科生团体和社交媒体招募。学生和潜在导师之间的匹配将由一个选拔委员会完成，该委员会包括PI和一部分潜在导师，他们将考虑学生的研究兴趣和职业目标。 预计共有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该方案中接受培训。来自不同背景的学生将从俄勒冈州立大学的路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟内的机构和俄勒冈州立大学在农村俄亥俄州的地区校园招募。由于目标人群是不断上升的大学生和大三学生，REU计划包括广泛的职业探索和专业发展，期望这些将显着增加对学生的影响，因为他们浏览随后的学术和专业机会。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施司（生物科学理事会）资助的所有REU计划使用的一种基于网络的通用评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。学生将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求通过NSF报告系统自动发送电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问http：//eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU，或联系PI（Marymegan Daly博士，osu.edu）或共同PI（Bryan Carstens博士，osu.edu）。

This REU Site award to Ohio State University, located in Columbus, OH, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2019. This program will recruit rising sophomores and juniors to collaborate with research mentors from the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology to address questions about evolutionary relationships among plants, microbes, or animals using leading-edge molecular biology and informatics techniques for massively parallel DNA sequence data. In addition to developing skills in research project design, data collection, and analysis, this program will focus on professional development of the students, including meetings with biologists in industry, natural resource management, and the Columbus Zoo. Students will be recruited through websites, recruitment visits to undergraduate student groups, and social media. Matching between students and potential mentors will be done by a selection committee including the PIs and a subset of potential mentors who will consider the student's research interests and professional goals. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students from diverse backgrounds will be recruited from institutions within OSU's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and from OSU regional campuses in rural Ohio. Because the target population is rising sophomores and juniors, the REU program includes extensive career exploration and professional development, with the expectation that these will increase significantly the impact for students as they navigate subsequent academic and professional opportunities. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marymegan Daly at daly.66@osu.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Bryan Carstens at carstens.12@osu.edu).