REU Site: Research Experiences in Physiology and Neurobiology at UCONN

REU 网站：康涅狄格大学生理学和神经生物学研究经验

• 批准号: 2244073
• 负责人: Joseph Crivello
• 金额: $ 28.26万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244073&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Physiology

This REU site award to the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks each summer during the summers of 2023 to 2025. Undergraduate students from primarily non-PH.D. schools and those who are underrepresented minorites, veterans, and diasbled students will be recruited. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Assessment of the program effectiveness will be determined through the use of the an line tool. Students will be tracked after participation in the program to determine their career paths.Undergraduate participants will examine physiological systems through hands-on research from a molecular to systems level. The research projects are part of a broader examination of Modeling in Physiological Systems, undertaken by labs within departments of Physiology & Neurobiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Pharmaceutics. Areas of research include: neurocircuitry underlying motivational processes; chemosensation in insects, vascular morphogenesis, and tumorigenesis. Program goals are to improve the mentoring skills and experience of faculty, deepen institutional relationships with non-Ph.D. granting institutions, enhance recruitment of students with limited research experience, and provide students with an excellent research experience. Participants will learn how to pose research questions, read, and understand research literature, work as part of a research team, devise their own research questions and the means to answer them, and be mentored by faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students. Participants will learn about responsible and ethical conduct of research, graduate program selection and applying. Students present the results of their work at a poster-session at the end of the summer and regional and national meetings. Students will be selected by a committee composed of the PI, co-PI and faculty mentors. Special recruiting focus is on students not typically chosing research careers, under-represented minorities, disabled students, veterans, and first-generation students. Participants will be required to register with the NSF ETAP. More information is available about this program by visiting https://pnbreu.uconn.edu or by contacting the PI (Dr. Crivello @[e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Menuz at [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网站奖给康涅狄格州斯托尔斯，CT的大学，将支持10名学生的培训10周，每年夏天在2023年至2025年的夏天。本科生主要来自非博士生。学校和那些代表性不足的少数民族，退伍军人和散居各地的学生将被招募。 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。将通过使用在线工具来确定对计划有效性的评估。学生将在参与该计划后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。本科生参与者将通过从分子到系统水平的动手研究来检查生理系统。这些研究项目是生理系统建模的更广泛检查的一部分，由生理学神经生物学，分子和细胞生物学以及制药学部门的实验室进行。研究领域包括：动机过程的神经回路;昆虫的化学感觉，血管形态发生和肿瘤发生。计划的目标是提高教师的指导技能和经验，加深与非博士的机构关系。资助院校，加强招收研究经验有限的学生，并为学生提供优秀的研究经验。参与者将学习如何提出研究问题，阅读和理解研究文献，作为研究团队的一部分工作，设计自己的研究问题和回答问题的方法，并由教师，博士后研究员，研究生和本科生指导。参与者将学习负责任和道德的研究行为，研究生课程的选择和申请。学生们在夏季结束时以及区域和国家会议的海报会议上展示他们的工作成果。学生将由PI，co-PI和教师导师组成的委员会选出。特别招聘的重点是学生通常不选择研究职业，代表性不足的少数民族，残疾学生，退伍军人和第一代学生。参与者将被要求在NSF ETAP注册。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问https://pnbreu.uconn.edu或联系PI（Dr. Crivello @joseph. uconn.edu）或co-PI（Dr. Menuz at karen. uconn.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。