REU Site: Molecular and Synthetic Microbiology

这个REU网站奖给格鲁吉亚，位于雅典，格鲁吉亚的大学，将支持10名学生的培训9周期间的夏天2018-2020。 该计划将向本科生介绍微生物研究领域，并通过多个研讨会提高他们对微生物学职业和研究生院申请过程的认识。鼓励来自科学界代表性不足群体的学生，包括聋人和听力障碍学生以及少数民族学生参加。每个REU参与者进行一个独立的项目与教师导师居住在几个部门之一（例如，微生物学、海洋科学）。所有提供的研究课题，解决微观生物体的功能，并使用跨学科的技术，结合联合收割机知识，从不同领域，包括遗传学，生物化学和生物信息学。项目可能涉及广泛的问题，包括微生物在环境或地球化学过程中的作用，或工程微生物合成工业相关化合物。这些过程可以在分子或基因组序列水平上进行剖析。学生申请以电子方式提交，学生将由研究教师委员会选出。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。 将为聋人或听力障碍（D/HH）参与者提供额外支持。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。 与会者将会见教师，参加科学研讨会，参观当地的生物技术产业，参加科学伦理的讨论，并参加定期实验室小组会议。学生将在夏季结束时在海报会议上展示他们的研究成果。由生物基础设施部资助的所有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。欲了解更多信息，请访问http：//mib.uga.edu/reu-site-molecular-and-synthetic-microbiology，或联系主要研究者（Vincent J. Starai博士，网址：vjstarai@uga.edu）或共同主要研究者（Timothy Hoover博士，网址：trhoover@uga.edu）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 2018-2020. This program will introduce undergraduates to areas of microbial research and increase their awareness of careers in microbiology and graduate school application process through multiple workshops. Students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific community, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students and ethnic minorities, are encouraged to participate. Each REU participant conducts an independent project with a faculty mentor residing in one of several Departments (e.g., Microbiology, Marine Sciences). All provide research topics that address the functions of microscopic organisms and use interdisciplinary techniques that combine knowledge from diverse fields, including Genetics, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics. Projects may address broad questions including the role of microbes in environmental or geochemical processes, or in engineering microbes to synthesize industrially-relevant compounds. These processes may be dissected at the molecular or genome sequence levels. Student applications are submitted electronically, and students will be selected by a committee of research faculty. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Additional support will be provided to deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) participants. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Participants will meet with faculty, attend scientific seminars, tour local biotech industries, participate in discussions of science ethics, and join regular laboratory group meetings. Students will present their research results at the end of the summer in a poster session. A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked 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 is available by visiting http://mib.uga.edu/reu-site-molecular-and-synthetic-microbiology, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Vincent J. Starai at vjstarai@uga.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Timothy Hoover at trhoover@uga.edu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.