REU Site: Human Neuroscience Research and Techniques at Georgia Tech and Georgia State

REU 网站：佐治亚理工学院和佐治亚州立大学的人类神经科学研究和技术

• 批准号: 2050613
• 负责人: Eric Schumacher
• 金额: $ 37.47万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Human; Neuroscience; Research

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The brain is critical for basic functions in life, such as movement, emotion, awareness, and regulation. Understanding how the brain functions is vital to questions scientists have about behavior and health. Research of the human brain is possible with sophisticated tools that are used to understand the function and health of our brains. Over the last several decades, great steps have been made to develop the tools to improve our ability to more accurately understand human brain function. It is critical to develop the next generation of brain scientists to use these tools to unlock new discoveries. However, some college-age aspiring brain scientists are unable to use these tools because they are not available to them. This Research Experience for Undergraduates seeks to provide hands-on exposure to the tools to understand human brain function. We will train women and/or under-represented minority college students in research laboratories at two universities that are leaders in brain research, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University in the city of Atlanta, GA. This experience will support engagement with techniques to study human brain function, enhance their knowledge of brain science, and support the next generation of scientists that can unlock the mysteries of the brain.Neuroscience is a growing field. Knowledge about the brain and brain function is critical for our understanding of human behavior and many human diseases and disorders. The collaborative neuroscience community at Georgia Tech and Georgia State is uniquely suited to provide an undergraduate research experience in human neuroscience research and techniques that will achieve several goals. This REU program will train women and/or under-represented minority students, including 6 in a unique second summer research-mentorship experience that will: 1) provide exposure for students to human neuroscience research that do not have tools available at their institutions; 2) afford hands-on training on data acquisition and analysis in fMRI and EEG; 3) provide training on the importance of reliability and reproducibility in research; 4) engage in active research in PI labs; 5) increase the students' competitiveness when applying for post-graduate education or work in neuroscience-related fields, and 6)increase scientific knowledge and make neuroscientific discoveries by advancing the transformative research in faculty mentor laboratories. To achieve our goals of increasing neuroscience knowledge among trainees, we will engage them in transformative neuroscience research tailored to their interests through collaborative research with faculty mentors. The participants will advance neuroscientific knowledge by carrying out this transformative research with Georgia State or Georgia Tech faculty. Through group activities, the REU participants will gain a hands-on knowledge of neuroscience techniques that they would not otherwise have access to. The shared activities of the REU participants and faculty mentors will foster interaction across psychology, physics, neuroscience, biology, and biomedical engineering.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。大脑对于生命中的基本功能至关重要，如运动，情感，意识和调节。了解大脑的功能对于科学家们关于行为和健康的问题至关重要。人类大脑的研究是有可能的复杂的工具，用于了解我们的大脑的功能和健康。在过去的几十年里，我们在开发工具以提高我们更准确地理解人类大脑功能的能力方面取得了很大进展。培养下一代脑科学家使用这些工具来解锁新发现至关重要。然而，一些大学年龄的有抱负的脑科学家无法使用这些工具，因为他们无法使用这些工具。本科生的这一研究经验旨在提供动手接触的工具，以了解人类大脑功能。我们将在两所大学的研究实验室培训女性和/或代表性不足的少数民族大学生，这两所大学是大脑研究的领导者，格鲁吉亚理工大学和佐治亚州亚特兰大市的格鲁吉亚州立大学。这种经验将支持参与技术研究人类大脑功能，提高他们的脑科学知识，并支持下一代科学家，可以解开大脑的奥秘。神经科学是一个不断发展的领域。关于大脑和大脑功能的知识对于我们理解人类行为和许多人类疾病和障碍至关重要。格鲁吉亚理工学院和格鲁吉亚州立大学的合作神经科学社区非常适合提供人类神经科学研究和技术的本科研究经验，这将实现几个目标。该REU计划将培训女性和/或代表性不足的少数民族学生，其中包括6名独特的第二次夏季研究导师经验，该经验将：1）为学生提供接触人类神经科学研究，这些研究在他们的机构中没有可用的工具; 2）提供关于fMRI和EEG数据采集和分析的实践培训; 3）提供关于研究中可靠性和再现性的重要性的培训; 4）在PI实验室从事积极的研究; 5）提高学生申请研究生教育或从事神经科学相关领域工作的竞争力，以及6）通过推进教师导师实验室的变革性研究来增加科学知识并做出神经科学发现。为了实现我们增加学员神经科学知识的目标，我们将通过与教师导师的合作研究，让他们参与针对他们兴趣的变革性神经科学研究。参与者将通过与格鲁吉亚州立大学或格鲁吉亚理工学院的教师开展这项变革性研究来推进神经科学知识。通过小组活动，REU参与者将获得他们无法获得的神经科学技术的实践知识。REU参与者和教师导师的共同活动将促进心理学，物理学，神经科学，生物学和生物医学工程的互动。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。