MINORITY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING (MIRT)

描述（改编自应用程序）：这是一个竞争性的更新， 加州大学，圣克鲁斯，建议继续其长期 积极吸引代表性不足的少数民族学生和教师的目标 阿根廷（巴塔哥尼亚海岸）的行为和生物医学相关研究 和墨西哥索诺拉的加州湾。研究将继续 主要集中在沿着的几种脊椎动物的生物学上。 巴塔哥尼亚和加州湾海岸。MIRT学生将参与 长期调查径流污染物对食物网的影响， 加州湾，特别是对顶级捕食者指数物种的影响， 海洋哺乳动物鸟类和人类食物链和渔业的健康 加州湾对美国的健康和经济造成了巨大的影响， 墨西哥公民。在阿根廷，研究将集中在生理研究上 南部大象和海豹的故事， 哺乳动物肥胖，生理长期食物和水的禁欲。 这些研究的结果已被证明具有临床意义 在美洲和加勒比地区管理几种严重的人类疾病方面， 环太平洋这些疾病包括肥胖、糖尿病和心血管疾病， 营养不良和/或 饥饿自1993年UCSC-MIRT最初获得资助以来， 培养了57名本科生/研究生，其中19人已被录取 博士课程。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From Application): This is a competitive renewal from the University of California, Santa Cruz that proposes to continue its long-term objective of actively engaging underrepresented minority students and faculty on behavioral and biomedically relevant research in Argentina (Patagonia coast) and the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico. The research will continue to focus, primarily, on the biology of the several vertebrate species along the Patagonian and Gulf of California coasts. MIRT students will be involved in long term investigations of the effects run off pollutants on the food web of the Gulf of California especially the impact on top predator index species of marine mammals, birds and humans. The health of the food chain and fisheries of the Gulf of California has enormous health and economic consequences for the citizens of Mexico. In Argentina, studies will focus on physiological studies of the Southern elephant and seal which serves as a unexpected model of mammalian obesity, the physiological long term food and water abstinence. Results of these investigations have been shown to have clinical implications in the management of several severe human pathologies in the Americas and the Pacific Rim. These include obesity and diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and early childhood development and pathologies resulting from malnutrition and/or starvation. Since l993, when the UCSC-MIRT was initially funded, the program has trained 57 undergraduate/graduate students, of which 19 have admitted to PH.D programs.