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

摘要 我们建议继续并扩大为期六天的基因组学夏季短期课程的影响 对基因研究的影响有背景和兴趣的土著大学生。 这项名为《基因组学土著夏季实习》的项目的短期目标是 (SING)，是培训土著学生进行下一代基因组和生物信息学分析，并建立 美洲土著社区的科学研究能力。此外，SING程序还构建了一个 在STEM领域为土著学者提供支持网络。我们扩大了SING短期课程的影响 通过在有既定研究计划的大学开设SING短期课程的额外场地 涉及美国不同地理区域的土著人民和基因组学。新入门 SING课程将在西南部的一所部落学院和东部的一所大学进行短期课程 北美洲的海岸。SING短期课程的一些部分是针对#年土著人民的具体问题量身定做的 这项工作将在地理区域内开展，并将利用主办机构教职员工的专业知识。具体来说， 我们建议于2020年在康涅狄格大学举办SING短期课程， 关于微生物群和社区驱动研究的单元，北亚利桑那大学和迪内学院#年 2021，提供关于环境健康、基因组学、部落遗传政策和俄亥俄州的专门模块 2022年，国立大学开设了关于传染病和欧洲殖民影响的专门模块。 SING教员的专业知识和主办大学提供的资源提供了丰富的 教育美洲原住民学生和解决基因组学重要问题的环境 土著社区。我们独特的短期课程，有重要的分子生物学实践培训， 生物信息学和ELSI战略改变了科学界土著受训人员的教育。 我们将继续对该项目进行实证评估，以便更好地为其他项目树立榜样。

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.