REU SITE: Summer Undergraduate Program for Experiential Research (SUPER) in Molecular Biosciences.

REU 网站：分子生物科学体验研究暑期本科生项目 (SUPER)。

• 批准号: 1950627
• 负责人: Antonio Gonzalez
• 金额: $ 39.31万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; SITE; Summer; Undergraduate; Program

This REU Site award to The University of Texas at Austin supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2020 - 2022. Rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors from underrepresented groups majoring in life-science fields will be trained each year. Students will conduct research, and many will present at scientific conferences. The program will be assessed using the SALG URSSA tool and students will be tracked afterwards to determine their career paths.The SUPER REU Site focuses on molecular biosciences with a theme of Cell and Developmental Biology. Projects encompass work in subdisciplines that support Cell and Development including: Imaging, Molecular Cloning, Biochemistry, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Big Data, Genetics, Genetic Transformation, and others. Examples of student projects could include: genome editing experiments to test the role of identified proteins during embryogenesis; testing the impact of recombinant proteins on synthetic liposome shapes to model vesicle formation and trafficking; or the analysis of transgenic flies or plants to determine the role of specific proteins in cell fate determination. The program’s home is the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB). Host labs are in multiple departments: Molecular Biosciences, Integrative Biology, Neurosciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics. The program will foster a strong sense of community in many ways: dorm housing with SUPER students and students from other summer programs in close proximity; frequent meetings for professional development and social activities; multiple student presentations, including the Summer Research Symposium. SUPER includes training in ethics, responsible conduct of research, and biosafety. Students can apply through the SUPER web site. Application materials consist of a transcript, a current CV, one letter of reference, and short essay statements. A committee consisting of 4 faculty members and 2 former SUPER mentors will select students based on student interest in a research career, diversity needs of the program, and the holistic strength of the application. Detailed program is available by visiting https://icmb.utexas.edu/about/summer-undergraduate-research or by contacting the PI (Dr. Alan Lloyd, [e-mail]), the co-PI (Dr. Antonio Gonzalez, [e-mail]), or the SUPER coordinator (Justine Mecchio, [e-mail]).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.

这个REU网站奖得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校支持10名学生在2020年至2022年的夏天10周的培训。每年将对来自生命科学领域代表性不足的群体的新生、大三和大四学生进行培训。学生将进行研究，许多人将出席科学会议。该计划将使用SALG URSSA工具进行评估，之后将跟踪学生，以确定他们的职业道路。SUPER REU网站专注于分子生物科学，主题为细胞和发育生物学。项目涵盖支持细胞和发展的子学科的工作，包括：成像，分子克隆，生物化学，系统和合成生物学，大数据，遗传学，遗传转化等。学生项目的例子可以包括：基因组编辑实验，以测试在胚胎发生过程中识别的蛋白质的作用;测试重组蛋白对合成脂质体形状的影响，以模拟囊泡的形成和运输;或分析转基因苍蝇或植物，以确定特定蛋白质在细胞命运决定中的作用。该计划的家是细胞和分子生物学研究所（ICMB）。主机实验室在多个部门：分子生物科学，综合生物学，神经科学，生物医学工程和物理学。该计划将以多种方式培养强烈的社区意识：与SUPER学生和其他暑期项目的学生一起宿舍;经常举行专业发展和社交活动会议;多个学生演讲，包括夏季研究研讨会。SUPER包括道德、负责任的研究行为和生物安全方面的培训。学生可以通过SUPER网站申请。申请材料包括一份成绩单，一份当前的简历，一封推荐信和简短的论文陈述。由4名教师和2名前超级导师组成的委员会将根据学生对研究职业的兴趣，该计划的多样性需求以及应用程序的整体实力来选择学生。详细计划可通过访问https://icmb.utexas.edu/about/summer-undergraduate-research或联系PI（Alan Lloyd博士，[e-mail]）、co-PI（Antonio Gonzalez博士，antonio. austin.utexas.edu）或SUPER协调员（Justine Mecchio，justine. austin.utexas.edu）获得。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。