REU Site: Microbial community interactions and functions

该REU网站授予位于田纳西州诺克斯维尔的田纳西大学，将在2017年至2019年的夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的培训。该计划侧重于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。该站位于微生物系，有20多名教员将担任导师：这些教员的专长是微生物学、地球与行星科学、生物系统工程与土壤科学、土木与环境工程和地球与行星科学。对于学生来说，有一系列非常有趣和令人兴奋的项目，涵盖海洋和湖泊，洞穴和极地地区，工业和农业场所的微生物学环境。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。预计总共将有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该项目中接受培训。该计划将为对研究型职业感兴趣的学生提供进行全职实验室研究的机会，并参加研讨会和讲习班，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流程的培训。由生物基础设施部（SALG-URSSA）资助的所有REU站点计划使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。课程结束后，社交媒体将跟踪学生，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统自动发送的电子邮件。有关该项目的更多信息，请访问https://microreu.utk.edu/，联系项目主任（Tennessee.microbiology.REU@gmail.com），或联系PI （Steven Wilhelm教授，wilhelm@utk.edu）或联合PI （Gary LeCleir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).