REU Site: Microbial community interactions and functions

这个REU网站奖给田纳西大学，位于诺克斯维尔，田纳西州，并将支持10名学生在2017年至2019年的夏天10周的培训。该计划的重点是微生物学和微生物群落结构和微生物群落功能之间的相互作用。 该网站位于微生物学系，有20多名教师将担任导师：这些教师在微生物学沿着地球行星科学，生物系统工程土壤科学，民用环境工程和地球行星科学中安家。 有广泛的非常有趣和令人兴奋的项目，为学生跨越微生物学的环境跨越海洋和湖泊，洞穴和极地，工业和农业用地。该计划的在线申请将由一个教师小组审查，他们将选择有动力的学生参加。预计共有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将接受该计划的培训。该计划将为有兴趣从事研究型职业的学生提供机会，进行全职实验室研究，并参加研讨会和讲习班，在那里他们将接受负责任的研究行为，专业沟通技巧，工业和学术界的职业机会以及研究生院申请过程的培训。 由生物基础设施部（SALG-URSSA）资助的所有REU研究中心项目使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训项目的有效性。学生将在课程结束后通过社交媒体进行跟踪，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。有关该项目的更多信息，请访问https：//microreu.utk.edu/，联系项目负责人（Tennessee.microbiology. gmail.com）或联系PI（Steven Wilhelm教授，wilhelm@utk.edu）或联合PI（加里·勒克莱尔博士，glecleir@utk.edu）。

This REU Site award to The University of Tennessee, located in Knoxville, TN and will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2019. The program focuses on microbiology and the interplay between the microbial community structure and microbial community function. Housed in the Department of Microbiology, the site has more than 20 faculty who will serve as mentors: these faculty make their homes in Microbiology along with Earth & Planetary Sciences, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Sciences, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Planetary Science. There is a wide range of very interesting and exciting projects for the students that span microbiology in environments spanning oceans and lakes, caves and polar regions, industrial and agricultural sites. Online applications for the program will be reviewed by a panel of faculty who will select motivated students to participate.It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. The program will provide opportunities for students interested in research-oriented careers to perform full-time lab research as well as participate in seminars and workshops where they will receive training in responsible conduct in research, professional communication skills, career opportunities in industry and academia, and the graduate school application process. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (SALG-URSSA) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked by social media after the program 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 https://microreu.utk.edu/, by contacting the program director (Tennessee.microbiology.REU@gmail.com) or by contacting the PI (Professor Steven Wilhelm, wilhelm@utk.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Gary LeCleir, glecleir@utk.edu).