REU Site: Molecular and Synthetic Microbiology

REU Site奖授予位于格鲁吉亚雅典的格鲁吉亚大学，将在2018-2020年夏季支持10名学生为期9周的培训。该项目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申请程序的认识。鼓励来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生参加，包括聋哑人和重听学生以及少数民族。每名REU参与者与一名教师导师一起开展一个独立的项目，该导师居住在几个系中的一个系(例如微生物学、海洋科学)。所有课程都提供研究主题，涉及微生物的功能，并使用跨学科技术，结合不同领域的知识，包括遗传学、生物化学和生物信息学。项目可以解决广泛的问题，包括微生物在环境或地球化学过程中的作用，或在工程微生物合成与工业相关的化合物方面的作用。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，学生将由一个研究人员委员会挑选。预计共有30名学生将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。将向聋人或重听人(D/HH)参与者提供额外的支持。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。参加者将与教师见面，参加科学研讨会，参观当地的生物科技产业，参与科学伦理讨论，并参加定期的实验室小组会议。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。将使用生物基础设施司资助的所有REU站点方案使用的通用网络评估工具来确定培训方案的有效性。项目结束后，将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。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(蒂莫西·胡佛博士，电子邮件：trhoover@uga.edu)。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力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.