Expanding the impact of the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) short course

总结 我们建议继续并扩大为期六天的夏季基因组学短期课程的影响， 对遗传研究的影响有背景和兴趣的土著学院和大学学生。 该计划的短期目标，题为夏季实习的基因组学研究人员 （SING），旨在培训土著学生进行下一代基因组和生物信息学分析， 美国原住民社区的科学研究能力。此外，SING计划建立了一个 为STEM领域的土著学者提供支持网络。我们扩大SING短期课程的影响 在有既定研究计划的大学增设SING短期课程的地点 涉及美国不同地理区域的土著人民和基因组学。新的 SING计划将在西南部的一所部落学院和东部的一所大学开设短期课程 北美海岸。SING短期课程的部分内容针对土著人民的具体问题， 在这方面，将考虑到地理区域的不同，并将利用东道机构教师的专门知识。具体地说， 我们建议于2020年在康涅狄格大学举办SING短期课程， 关于微生物组和社区驱动的研究模块，北方亚利桑那大学和迪内学院， 2021年与环境健康和基因组学和部落遗传政策和俄亥俄州的专业模块 州立大学，2022年开设传染病和欧洲殖民化影响的专门模块。 SING教师的专业知识和主办大学的资源提供了丰富的 环境，教育美国原住民学生和解决基因组学的重要问题， 土著社区。我们独特的短期课程，在分子生物学方面进行了大量的实践培训， 生物信息学和ELSI战略改变了科学界土著学员的教育。 这一方案将继续进行经验评估，以更好地作为其他人的榜样。

Summary We propose to continue and expand the impact of a six-day summer short course on genomics for Indigenous college and university students with a background and interest on the impacts of genetic research. The short-term goals of the program, entitled the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING), are to train Indigenous students in next-generation genomic and bioinformatics analyses and to build capacity for scientific research of Native American communities. Additionally, the SING program builds a support network for Indigenous scholars in the STEM fields. We expand the impact of the SING short course by having additional venues of the SING short course at universities with established research programs involving Indigenous peoples and genomics in different geographic regions of the United States. New to the SING program will be to have a short course at a tribal college in the Southwest and a university on the East Coast of North America. Parts of the SING short course are tailored to specific issues of Indigenous peoples of the geographic region and will take advantage of the expertise of faculty of the host institutions. Specifically, we propose to convene the SING short course at the University of Connecticut in 2020 with specialized modules on microbiomes and community-driven research, Northern Arizona University and Diné College in 2021 with specialized modules on environmental health and genomics and tribal genetic policy and The Ohio State University with a specialized module on infectious disease and impacts of European colonization in 2022. The expertise of the SING faculty and resources available at the host universities provide enriching environments to educate Native American students and tackle important problems of genomics with Indigenous communities. Our unique short course with significant hands-on training in molecular biology, bioinformatics and ELSI strategies transform education for Indigenous trainees in the scientific community. This program will continue to be empirically evaluated to better serve as a model for others.