REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Biosensing - Engineering Molecular or Nanoscale Signal Transducers for High-Performance Bio-Detection

三年的REU网站：工程分子或纳米级信号传感器的高性能生物检测在内华达州里诺大学将聘请8名本科生在生物传感的前沿每年10周。生物传感器是应对与人类福祉有关的基本挑战（健康、有效的粮食和绿色能源农业生产以及安全的自然环境）的重要工具。研究项目将培训参与者通过开发生物传感器并将其应用于人类健康，农业和环境来获得最先进的生物传感科学/工程概念和技能。学生将从代表性不足的少数群体，妇女和残疾学生中招募，这些学生传统上只能获得有限的本科研究设施。这个REU网站，整合了研究和培训，将有助于为学生增加新兴研发机会的劳动力，并使他们成为未来的领导者，以进一步推进生物传感知识，解决更具挑战性的问题。 三年的REU网站：工程分子或纳米级信号传感器的高性能生物检测在内华达州里诺大学将聘请8名本科生在生物传感的前沿每年10周。以分子或纳米级实体为特色的研究项目（荧光团、蛋白质、纳米颗粒、纳米管、2D纳米材料等）将被设计成生物传感器的信号转换器。这种信号转换器（由于其特定的光学性质或电子学）可以显著增强生物传感器灵敏度，并且还使得生物传感器能够用于细胞内或体内检测，可穿戴设备开发，由于这些项目汇集了来自广泛不同知识领域的新技术和想法，本科生将有机会学习融合多种知识的尖端生物传感技术，学科学生将接受培训，设计和开发与分子或纳米级信号传感器相结合的生物传感器，并表征生物传感器的检测性能。然后，他们将应用生物传感器来应对人类健康，农业和环境方面的挑战。预计学生将在生物传感领域获得重要的研究经验，并为生物传感领域的新兴研发机会培养劳动力或未来的领导者。参与的教师也将获得更好的专业精神和熟练程度，在STEM领域发展下一代劳动力。这个REU网站的成果将向公众传播，吸引更多的学生进入STEM领域。这个项目是与刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助的。这个奖项反映了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。

The three-year REU Site: Engineering Molecular or Nanoscale Signal Transducers for High-Performance Bio-Detection at the University of Nevada Reno will engage 8 undergraduate students for 10 weeks per year in the frontiers of biosensing. Biosensors are important tools in addressing fundamental challenges related to human well-being (good health, effective agricultural production of food and green energy, and safe natural environments). Research projects will train participants to gain the state-of-the-art scientific/engineering concepts and skills about biosensing through developing biosensors and applying them to human health, agriculture, and the environment. Students will be recruited from underrepresented minority groups, women, and students with disabilities, who traditionally have limited access to undergraduate research facilities. This REU site, integrating research and training, will help grow the workforce for emerging R&D opportunities for students, and prepare them as future leaders to further advance knowledge in biosensing, solving more challenging questions. The three-year REU Site: Engineering Molecular or Nanoscale Signal Transducers for High-Performance Bio-Detection at the University of Nevada Reno will engage 8 undergraduate students for 10 weeks per year in the frontiers of biosensing. Research projects featuring molecular or nanoscale entities (fluorophores, proteins, nanoparticles, nanotubes, 2D nanomaterials, etc.) will be engineered as signal transducers of biosensors. Such signal transducers (due to their specific optical properties or electronics) can significantly enhance biosensor sensitivities, and also enable biosensors for inner-cellular or in vivo detection, wearables development, etc. Since these projects converge new technologies and ideas from widely diverse fields of knowledge undergraduate students will engage in opportunities to learn cutting-edge biosensing technologies integrating knowledge of multiple-disciplines Students will be trained to design and develop biosensors incorporated with molecular or nanoscale signal transducers and characterize the detection performance of biosensors. They will then apply biosensors to address open challenges in human health, agriculture, and the environment. Students are expected to gain significant research experience in the biosensing area and grow the workforce or future leaders for emerging R&D opportunities in biosensing fields. The participating faculty will also gain better professionalism and proficiency in developing the next-generation workforce in STEM fields. The outcomes of this REU site will be disseminated to the public and attract more students to the STEM fields.This project is jointly funded with the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.